I went to see the headmaster of my village school this
morning to see if the water system, we installed, is functioning well. I visit
the school every few weeks or so. As I started chatting with headmaster, Mr.
Cham, in his office he suddenly started pointing to the wall-board full of papers
saying something… All I was able to catch was: ”water”, “we did it”, “do you
see”, “wrote”, “rules”, ”see there”. I was looking at him confused… Then he
started hastily going through the papers on his desk…”I have it here”… “There”.
He gave me the piece of paper with the printed rules for using the water system. I was awestruck!… We have been talking
about them since the installation of the pump (in December) and it has always
been “not yet”, “we are busy”, “it is hard to get senior teachers together”, “bla,
bla, bla” or asking me to write rules for them which I refused... I finally
accepted that it will not happen. Oh, well. Not the first time. But there they
were not hand written but printed and shared with the teachers. Small steps…
small things, small surprises that brings me joy.:)
Have a restful weekend!