Torrential rains, flooded streets, bones drenched by the dampness… It is the monsoon at its peak. With this scenario, some weeks ago we began the new school term: now we have almost 300 students schooled at Tara. Among our aims for this year, we want to increase the academic level of our students. I would like to remind you that Tara School, being a Non-Formal School, must pay special attention to this issue so that, in a few years, our students can successfully accede to an official school.

In order to reach this goal, we got in touch with a school, near ours, that will guide us on the academic issues: supervising books, lessons and exams, et al. We have also started some other complementary activities in order to develop this task in a better way and to deepen our knowledge on those matters. Thus, a week before we began this term lessons, the teaching staff attended a crash course for teachers, organised by local NGO, Seva Kendra. For five days we received specific training for schools of our characteristics, where many student are below the official academic standard or the one corresponding to their age.