Valuing our partners. In updates in coming months, we will highlight the work of our partners. Here are some insights about Paper Boat.
What is ‘Paper Boat’? Based in the UK, Paper Boat is an excellent NGO that primarily draws its inspiration from the work of its partners and communities in Tamil Nadu, India. The focus is on ‘unlocking the infinite potential of children’. Click here to visit the Paper Boat Facebook page where you can learn more and subscribe to a newsletter.
Enabling and inspiring children: in our recent update we highlighted our new ‘Caplor Boat of Learning’; in relation to this paper, we would also like to add our huge thanks to Deborah Wetherall for her inspiration. Deborah is a Paper Boat trustee and a member of Paper Boat’s new Strategic Education Community. Her unique and valuable contribution has been to adapt the language of the ‘5 C's of Learning’ into a more accessible format for use by children and young people, with the aim of enabling even the very youngest of learners to embark on a journey of effective lifelong learning.
How is Paper Boat sailing to a new future? Over the past two years, all the key stakeholders involved have undergone a major and highly successful period of change and transition. The trustees and staff have worked very effectively and tirelessly. They have kept a relentless focus on the children that they ultimately serve, mainly from marginalised communities in India. These include people from the Kuruvar and Irula communities. Click here to see a short film.
How is Caplor Horizons involved? We’re delighted to have a long-standing collaborative relationship with Paper Boat. It is an illustration of how collaboration between two partners can develop in deep, mutually positive ways to enable both to be more effective in the work that they do with communities and other organisations. This has manifested itself in various ways: click here to read an extract from our recent impact report.
Sailing together. Another example of our partnership relates to work that Deborah has been making tremendous progress on – Paper Boat is currently developing a toolkit to deliver innovative learning approaches for use in their children’s hubs in India. Two of our Advisors Vicki (Howe) and Ann (Alder) are working closely with Deborah to build on the 5 C's of Learning and other ideas as part of this work. We will keep you posted about how the Paper Boat learning toolkit develops through this collaboration. Watch this space!
Did you miss a webinar? Last week we held a webinar. Its title was ‘are we in danger of losing our female talent’. We had over 40 people from a range of countries engaged with some important discussions. To learn more, click here to watch the recording; and here to see the presentation (which summarised various learnings from recent research).
Have a great day!
Rosie, Lorna and Ian