Allocations for 12P Managers

By Lou Rowen

The big day, the moment of truth, our fate for the next 12 weeks...call it what you like, the allocation of one UK team leader with one Indian team leader was a big deal for us all. As a pair we will be spending the coming 12 weeks in a village where we will project manage a series of health or veterinary camps as well as running sanitation education programs and building eco-sanitation or bio gas units. The project promises to be an intense and exciting 12 weeks, therefore it was essential for us to be placed with the right partner.

The suspense was high when Paul, Mark and Eleri came to break the news to us on Tuesday morning. Little more than half an hour later our fates were sealed and we were all sat happily with our new partners and being told about our project sites.

The partners in crime are:

Lou and Ajit                        -           Working in Mydanahalli, Karnataka

Holly and Boops                 -           Working in Kannagre, Tamil Nadu

Philip and Chandru             -           Working in Mauvalam, Tamil Nadu

Rob and Sunil                     -           Working in Shamboganahalli, Karnataka

Roz and Vishnu                  -            Working in Hossety, Tamil Nadu

Gavin and Shivu                 -            Working in Pura, Karnataka

To celebrate we have been to visit the palace at Mysore in between training on Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), community health and finance.

On Sunday of this week we will depart in our pairs to visit our project sites for the first time. There we will find our accommodation and begin assessing the village by meeting the village leader, Panchayat member and members of self help groups. I would say the hard work begins on Sunday but that would be misleading, trust me when I say the hard work has already begun.