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Shivani is now a bona fide trustee.

See the actual Charity Commission page here.

This week, Educate for Life took another step on the long road to being awesome. I am immensely happy and proud to share with you that we lucky enough to now call Shivani an Educate for Life Trustee (once it has been okayed by the Charities Commission).

For me, it means that we have again move beyond Educate for Life just being my and Ash’s great (subjective, I know!) idea, advancing further into the realm of a collective idea and approach. Of course, for many years everything we have done has been the product of a great number of people’s support, ideas and effort, but somewhere at that back it always has to come back to just us two, the last ones that will ever be able to board a life boat, should it come to that. Now Shivani has joined us at the helm, and her joining not only ratifies our appreciation of Shivani’s awesome approach to what she and we want to do, but in some small way everyone else that has ever pitched in for a while, long or short.

I’ll leave it there, and poke Shivani to put up a post instead.

Welcome once again to the Educate for Life blog, Mk III. We understand that it has been some time since the blog was last able to grace your computer screens, and for that we are very sorry.

So what’s been going on? Well, Ash continues to develop a fantastic school out in India, and although things remain challenging, with corruption, insolence and thievery rife, the school carries on regardless. The teachers aren’t necessarily perfect, and don’t seem to mind if they turn up late. The good news is that the children are behaving much better than the teachers; if the teacher is late then they organise themselves into little play groups and sing songs and games together.

Ash even managed to get the kids out of the classroom and down to the river the other day for a bit of sand sculpture class. Slowly but surely we’ll dilute the learn by rote and add in the learn by do and experience.

Once again, sorry for the absence, and we how that you will once more enjoy Ash’s and my ramblings on the building of a charity.