The leakages were present but manageable and limited. Anita provided a long list of proposed activities that the worker would use to interact with and invove the local community. After some discussion, it was concluded that the Vivekananda Foundation are indeed staking a lot in this project in terms of the effort required for selection and training of the candidates. They need to assign a value to this stake. It must have a slick 5-min presentation of the benefits, the risks, the checks, the balances and the investment required.
Progress reports and so on.
Donors will be impressed by this. The VF discussion concluded by the consensus to get in touch with Melli of Asha-Boston and clarify the concerns raised above. Also to get direct contact information of the VF for quickly clarifying future concerns. They could benefit by making it a little more concrete, give people something to hold on to. On the contrary, we should make it a point to support such long-term projects.