August 2012

We returned to the UK in August for an extended break and have effectively ‘stepped back’ to encourage our more senior staff to take over the day to day running of the clinics with minimal support.  ChiranJ is still doing a great job managing the Kathmandu branch and Govinda, who now has a supervisory position in Pokhara, is fast following in his footsteps.

We are still planning to take on new students and continue our training programme, but a break is important so we can focus on developing the clinic businesses and make sure local staff are capable of running them without our support. A couple of volunteers will still be going to do quality control and teach new tricks (by the end of this year, our therapists should have reflexology skills too) and we are hoping that we should be able to keep an eye on things from afar as we have done in previous years.