This Saturday I have no classes at MGIS and there are no training workshops for the teachers, which leaves me free to take a trip to Hunar Ghar. I’m getting the train from Ahmedabad at 11 pm tonight, arriving in Swaroopganj, about 2 hours jeep journey (by the time you have waited for one to fill up and leave etc) from Bakhel. I’ll stay for Saturday then come right back to Ahmedabad on Sunday morning. It’s not much of a time there, but it will at least give me to opportunity to say hello and catch up a bit with what is going on there.

Deepak, Ash and I also recently sat down and discussed measures we were going to take improve the basic qualities of the systems at Hunar Ghar. I’ll use my trip as an opportunity to promote the uptake of these. More generally, I’m really starting to think about the systems side of Educate for Life and Hunar Ghar. Looking at MGIS, a huge amount of dedicated work goes into making it possible. They are not, of course, perfectly efficient, but it does make me wonder just how possible it is to create and sustain that level of dedication, especially without becoming myopic to what is going on. It is a challenge, and the feasibility of it, particularly in a rural setting, is questionable. Which perhapos makes Hunar Ghar’s actual value and potential value questionable?