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his is a scene from the tea stall next to the school. I bought them Sprites and they all had a sugar high. The little girl from the last entry (last picture) is in the middle in orange and white. She is my new best buddy. Just like Naga, she finds me no matter what where I am and then runs around with me wherever I go.
Despite the two enormous problems of these last weeks, we had good news today. We still have some claim on the land the government sanctioned for the school. Ok, that is not good news, and we did think we were out of that. I know, I know, I know... However, the land survey to check the first survey (uh huh…Indian bureaucracy) has redrawn the boundary lines of the school site. We are, again, on the land claimed by our neighbor, Mr. Reddy. So what is the good news? We now have a powerful advocate in the highest levels of government who is moving mountains to make sure the claim gets removed or another solution is found this week. The education department crews are coming to the new school site on January 25th at 11:00 AM to remove the claim (this means bust down the wall put up by our neighbor who claims the land). If litigation begins after this event (likely), we have already started to push the “powerful one” to give us a new site about 300 yards up the street (which is also government land). This is all thanks to another friend who put us into contact with the government official - Thank You, Ravi!
The other good news is that more funds were released by the state government for new schools in the Hy-Tech City area. Some of the taxes from all the computer and internet companies were earmarked for education in this area. The government will now pay for:
1) all the construction costs, and
2) computers for the school!
Whooo yaaa!
Even more good news: now that the government know us and believes the management is solid at our school, they are releasing a bunch of educational tools to us for our use. This is on the condition that the school will be well-looked after. I pointed to Ismail and told them not to worry, he’s on the case. Here is Ismail (right) walking over our new school site.
Ismail is part of Roy's team, but he is assigned to "look after" the Americans who have come to Hyderabad. That includes me, so Ismail tags along to the school regularly. He likes it so much that he is considering taking a job managing a few different schools, including Rainbow, when his duties on Roy's team conclude. He will help the teachers, recruit students, and generally keep things in good order.
his is a scene from the tea stall next to the school. I bought them Sprites and they all had a sugar high. The little girl from the last entry (last picture) is in the middle in orange and white. She is my new best buddy. Just like Naga, she finds me no matter what where I am and then runs around with me wherever I go.Despite the two enormous problems of these last weeks, we had good news today. We still have some claim on the land the government sanctioned for the school. Ok, that is not good news, and we did think we were out of that. I know, I know, I know... However, the land survey to check the first survey (uh huh…Indian bureaucracy) has redrawn the boundary lines of the school site. We are, again, on the land claimed by our neighbor, Mr. Reddy. So what is the good news? We now have a powerful advocate in the highest levels of government who is moving mountains to make sure the claim gets removed or another solution is found this week. The education department crews are coming to the new school site on January 25th at 11:00 AM to remove the claim (this means bust down the wall put up by our neighbor who claims the land). If litigation begins after this event (likely), we have already started to push the “powerful one” to give us a new site about 300 yards up the street (which is also government land). This is all thanks to another friend who put us into contact with the government official - Thank You, Ravi!
The other good news is that more funds were released by the state government for new schools in the Hy-Tech City area. Some of the taxes from all the computer and internet companies were earmarked for education in this area. The government will now pay for:
1) all the construction costs, and
2) computers for the school!
Whooo yaaa!
Even more good news: now that the government know us and believes the management is solid at our school, they are releasing a bunch of educational tools to us for our use. This is on the condition that the school will be well-looked after. I pointed to Ismail and told them not to worry, he’s on the case. Here is Ismail (right) walking over our new school site.
Ismail is part of Roy's team, but he is assigned to "look after" the Americans who have come to Hyderabad. That includes me, so Ismail tags along to the school regularly. He likes it so much that he is considering taking a job managing a few different schools, including Rainbow, when his duties on Roy's team conclude. He will help the teachers, recruit students, and generally keep things in good order.
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