It has been a busy week reading endless project documents, editing and creating reports and proposals for donors (UN and USAID) while slowly recovering from jet lag! The staff have been incredibly helpful, explaining all their projects and the way things work and discussing endless ways I could spend the rest of my time here. We decided on me going to Palpa District about 4 hours bus journey south from Pokhara. I will be working with the coordinator to help develop their programmes in micro-enterprise/finance, healthcare and education and make sure everyone is benefiting. I will have to stay for years to get everything done! Very exciting to see where things go and what can be done.
Tomorrow I head up to Pokhara with colleague Binod who will be presenting a report to UN funders there. Looking forward to the tranquility and clean air (it will be nice not to wake up with itchy eyes and sore throat from dust and pollution) and having some good relaxing time with everyone at Shangri-La. Also looking forward to meeting up with Nina, a friend of a close friend and friend of hers who are on a medical placement and Florien, a friend of Krishna's who is coming for some extreme trekking...
Some photos soon I promise!
Lots of love xxx
