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Another Challenge:
The State government decided that all teachers (junior teachers, too) had to pass 10th grade exams. It is very hard to find young men and women to work in a school in a slum who have passed 10th. We can find teachers who are training to pass 10th. Most of the Rainbow School teachers are training right now to take their 10th exams. But until they have a 10th pass certificate, no government salary support. No government salary support = big budget problem for the Rainbow School.

(For an example of the difficulty of this exam click here.)

The Good News:
Our Kalpana and Vijaya Madams will try to get an exception to the rule by appealing to the MEO. And we found a temporary solution with a private donor. But it will only be for the rest of the school year.

Other news:
1. We will send pictures later, but the veranda classrooms will have reinforced rain/sun shielding by the next month thanks to some American donors.

2. A lovely donation was made via Rangoo Madam: English workbooks for 100 of the children.


This little coloring book is revolutionary in the slum, no one really has their own coloring books. Paper itself is rare and expensive. The teachers sometimes have to write up pages from a single textbook on the blackboard, and then the students copy bit and pieces down in their little student notebooks.

Rangoo Madam's daugher, Pooja, was here in California for work. I saw her yesterday - she was so sweet to bring me a copy of this workbook. It was lovely to hold school materials in my hands again.