Rainbow Primary School

I LOVE this blog - it talks about NGO operations in a great, plain-English way. One great post (post before last) has this to say: "Missionaries don’t try to do any soul-saving at first, spending a minimum of six months learning local language and culture. Mormons are renowned for their language skills. And once they have learned it, they stick around, spending years or even decades in country. They devote themselves to work in one particular place. Compare that to your average expatriate working in development, for a donor or implementing a project. The expat lives in a little bubble of fake-home, cushioned by consumable shipments, huge shipping allowances, and hardship pay. With air conditioning and heating to ensure they’re even in a different climate. And they stay in once place for approximately 35 seconds. Good people don’t have time to get great, and average people don’t even have time to get good. Complicated programs suffer as a result, and funding is biased toward thing...

In January, our private grant (the green part in the pie chart) is about to shrink down to half. We are ready to absorb cuts. But, there is one area where we really do need help: salary for the cleaning ladies. The grant covered their salary costs over the past four years. Each cleaning lady costs 1,000 rs a month (USD$23.00). If anyone is interested in funding one or both cleaning ladies, we'd LOVE to hear from you! leighanne(at)gmail.com or usha.rainbow(at)gmail.com