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2013

The school continues to grow and expand in healthy ways. Our two teachers who had babies, Divya and Sunitha, are back! Here is Sunitha in her classroom. The nonprofit partners and the local community continue to support the school. The Indian Literacy Project teacher is conducting ongoing English classes and loaning books from our new library. Very exciting! I have also heard our headmaster is energetically engaging the government to support the school alongside Kalpana Madam. I knew when I left the school in 2008 everything would work out because the teachers, the children and the parents would never let the school fail. It looks likely that the school will be awarded "Best" again for 2012-2013. I wish our sister schools, including the Madhapur Mandal School, all the best but now that Divya and Sunith are back I believe there is extra competition this year!

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