Dear Amigos de Tara:

I hope all of you are doing very well. In Kolkata , these days, we are reaching 40 grades centigrades. Summer is all over here!. With this heat we are all looking forward the arrival of the monsoon, and stronger than last year, as we hardly felt it at that time.

The new session in Tara School,started two weeks ago, and with many news. Starting with our students number which now reaches 320! We´ve almost triplicated our students since the opening of our School five years ago. We are all very happy with this fact that we consider shows progress and development in our so important work. The sad side is not been able to accept all people that applies for a vacancy. As every year, we keep loyal to our selction rule and choose the poorest among the poors.
Our teachers team have been also increased for this new session; Chandra Prasad and Anita Toppo, are now part of Tara´s family, and with them there are 16 teachers and 6 workers, a total of 21 members.
 
A few days before classes started, we were all preparing for the big day: admissions, visiting families, preparing the class subjects, tailoring new uniforms…

On top of all this, some internal changes in the team made our days unlimited exciting; Papia Sarkar, one of our most veteran teachers, has beed selected as School assistant director, to support Rhana Catón work, actual coordinator in Kolkata. Also, Pintu, one of our most brilliant teachers, is moving to Nepal, to assist our School there. Pintu, that knows very well Tara´s spirit, will be assistant director of the School in Nepal. We are sure that his support will be very much benefitial for the Project. And Carolo Parra, our beloved volunteer on site, is also going  to be part of the  Tara´s team in Nepal, from August.

 

 We are confident about these changes and will benefit both projects. The idea keeps on being two local teams that lead the projects with all our support. In fact that is already a fact. We´ve really got the cooperation. We have a team that is very envolved and  devoted to our mision. A really fortune for ADT.

And on top ofeverything, the opening of the new rooms in the New Tara´s building has taken place. Still unfurnished,( we´ll use mosoon holiday to furnish it) we are already using four new rooms. The bathrooms of the new building will be finished in the following weeks.
 
I´m leaving to Nepal to prepare the new session there. I´ll let you know. Many thanks to everyone for being there. We keep connected.

Natalia