I started off today at a primary school interviewing teachers about how children with disbilities are included in our program and how the WV project has supported CWD in this community. These teachers said the same thing that I've heard other teachers say - in theory, inclusive education works really well, but when they are in the classroom and CWD need more attention, it becomes a practical challenge. Unfortunately, they aren't able to get more teachers, but e...

An early start today. We hit the road at 6:30am to travel to the next project area - Phuoc Son - which is about a 6 hour drive from Khe Sanh. The drive was some time of much needed relaxation and just stopping. We've been on the go for nearly a week now and it's really tiring! It was great to stop along the way and get some fruit!!! My diet has been so carb heavy and when I'm lucky, getting a bit of tofu here and there, but mostly rice and some green ve...

It doesn't matter how much you plan, the big thing I've learnt on this evaluation is that it can all change in a moment. Sometimes it's little things, others are bigger. After our lunch break today, we got in the car to head to another primary school to interview parents of children with disabilities. Only when we stopped at the primary school and other members of the team got out and we kept driving, I asked where we were going. Looks like we were on our wa...

This morning did not start off so well. As I went to bed at the granny time of 8:30pm, I was awake at the ridiculous time of 5am. Since I was behind in both my blog and my interview notes, I thought I'd spend some time on my laptop. At about 6:40am, I was just about getting ready to go down for breakfast (we were leaving at 7:15am) and BANG, I heard this sudden gush of water. Now when I say gust, at first I thought that it was the shower, but then quickly realis...

After another 'oplet' for breakfast at the restaurant (read here two eggs + bread roll), we hit the road in our mini-van for the Huong Phung commune, which is about 25km from our hotel. This is a commune high in the mountains and takes about 30 minutes to drive there. I was going to interview some teachers at the primary school and then do some 'school observation'. It is summer holidays in Vietnam so it is very quiet at the school, but there were some kids b...