Ash, Deepak and I just spent a week at Hunar Ghar together. It was pretty fantastic to be back, seeing the teachers and the children. I met our latest teacher, Pinki, who joined in October and we arrived just in time to catch Preeti and Rajkumar, who were off to Rajkumar’s parents’ home for Preeti to give birth.

Deepak, Ash and I did a lot of talking over the week, and think a fair bit of it was quite useful. We’ve decided to concentrate the coming 6 months to a year on doing the simple things really well. There isn’t much point, we feel, having much original thought or fantastic ideas if we don’t have a really good system to implement them in. Often with schools, the quality can be dramatically improved just by doing the simple things better – the better pedagogy etc can come later.

We then popped down to Mumbai to meet Ina, a woman who we’ve been in contact with for the last few months, adn who is interested in potentially coming to work as a coordinator at Hunar Ghar. As we expected, it turned out that Ina is completely ace, so we are looking forward to having her come and spend a month with us at Hunar Ghar in May to see if she likes the real thing.