We have recruited 18 volunteers so far this year, seven of whom have finished their assignment, four are still in place, and seven have yet to begin their assignments. This means that we have recruited more volunteers in the first half of this year than in any of the past five years that we have been operating.
We currently have three volunteers in place at schools in Sikkim and West Bengal, with ten more lined up to join their schools within the next few weeks. And we already have a volunteer lined up for a placement next March! Unfortunately, the volunteer who had wanted to teach at the Annapurna High School, which is 3,500 metres above sea-level, contracted pneumonia while on his travels in Tibet, which would have made a high altitude assignment inadvisable. He is going to a school in the Teesta valley in West Bengal instead.
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