Two women working in a school for Delhi's poor swap notes with the head of an Early Excellence Centre in London. Caroline Swinburne reports
At first it seems that Pembury House Centre for Childhood in Tottenham, London, one of the three state-funded nursery centres making up the Haringey Early Excellence Network, has little in common with a charitable school like the Bal Vihar, which operates in the slums of Delhi in India. Bal Vihar was founded by Rashmi Misra 15 years ago to provide an education for 3,000 children - most of them girls, many with special needs and all from the casteless class of 'untouchables'. Catherine Hunt from Britain has worked with Rashmi since November last year as the school's volunteer co-ordinator and fund-raiser, sponsored by the British agency Voluntary Service Overseas.
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