On 17 March, the staff, students and management committee of the Gilly Mundy Memorial Community School held their fourth annual Foundation Day celebrations and were joined by five BKIT trustees from the UK. The event also marked the fifth anniversary of Gilly’s death in 2007. Here are some photos from the day:

The following day, trustees were able to spend time talking with the school’s children, without their teachers present, to find out what they like about their school, what changes they would like to see and what hopes they have for the future – there are many aspiring teachers and engineers in this rural corner of India.

During the recent visit to the Gilly Mundy Memorial Community School in India, BKIT trustees Debbie Mundy and Maggie McGreevy worked with students from class 3A on a creative project called ‘The Teddy Bear Diary’. Each day, three members of the class took home a digital camera and a teddy bear to photograph their bear’s “adventures” at the child’s home. Debbie plans to produce a book of these pictures for all class members.

Here are some of the pictures taken by the children . They form part of a new Facebook page dedicated to the students at the school.