There is no internet and limited electricity in the village. (Hence the radio silence during the week.) Of the 4 schools in close proximity to the village, 2 are community schools, which have been funded by the different castes in the community and which rely on local volunteer teachers as well as privately employed teachers. They have almost no resources. they work extremely hard to create a successful school, relying on NGOs and charities for the building of actual classrooms and often footing the bill for everything else possible. although the government schools have more money (teachers are paid more than 5 times the salary when government employees) there is no real inspection and the teachers are not answerable to parents and the community-their salary is guaranteed whether they work hard or not. Each child has some tatty exercise books and an English book (with no Nepali and no context, no differentiation or logical scaffolding! despair.) there are chalk boards and white boards, wooden benches and bare classroom walls. I desperately wish I had some artistic talent to help brighten it up. I'm going to commission someone local to come and work with the children to paint them I think. log that for long term project).