By Jennifer Owen | Trustee
As we move towards monsoon season in Darjeeling, one of the most pressing things was to carry out the required maintenance work on the children’s home. As can be imagined, any dwelling in the hills of the Himalayas utilised by over ninety children necessitates continuous upkeep. Out trusted contractors have worked in record time to fix plumbing issues, maintain the paintwork and install safety features, including smoke alarms.
Keeping the children safe is obviously a priority for any charity. Our full-time staff have recently undergone additional safeguarding training and cascaded the information down to all who work at the children’s home. The students have attended a thought-provoking workshop run by MARG (Man Kind in Action for Rural Health) raising awareness on cyber-crime and child exploitation.
Deciding your path in life is challenging. It’s difficult to know what opportunities are available to you and how to access them. To help our students along their path in life we hosted another careers symposium. Five local professionals from different walks of life regaled the students with their stories and described how they ended up in their chosen profession. It certainly opened the students’ eyes and showed them what was possible.
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