On the 6^th of October, 2008, in the Danish town Horsens, I gave a talk on the MovingSchool project for the members of 3 Rotary Clubs. Before I started the talk I was presented a check in the amount of Dkk 75,000.

What a gesture – I was nervous that my talk had to be worthy of this very generous donation, that was given to a fine and decent project.

After the meeting we discussed longer term support for the project. One of the ideas was to make a small IT school for the brightest of the MovingSchool children.

We thank the 3 clubs for their wonderful support and the confidence they have in our organization.

Vitus Bering Rotary Klub

Horsens Vestre Rotary Klub

Horsens Oestre Rotary Klub

Best regards,

Anders Linnet

Memorable Function on February 2nd. 2008

It was a beautiful day with lots of fun entertainment at the 2 floating schools near Kerim. All the pupils were engaged in a large show which had been prepared and practiced for months.

A stage was set up and there were large loud-speakers and benches to sit on in front of the stage. All the pupils and teachers were busy getting the program ready in time. The audience consisted of about 20 Westerners who all had some connection or other to the MovingSchool project, and slowly before the start arrived large groups of Indian men and women, most of them parents of the children from the whole community of sand diggers as well as their families and friends. Altogether we were about 300 onlookers.

The teachers welcomed everybody to the 2 hour show where the children entertained us with dance, acting and singing. Everything was spoken in “Kanada”, the language of Karnataka, of course the westerners understood only the visuals but that did not diminish the splendid entertainment at all.

The children were amazing in their artistic expressions. They managed to joggle the 4 wireless microphones as if they were experienced actors. If was obvious that they had practiced for many hours to learn their lines, songs and dances, and the result was a huge success. The audience was captivated by the great talent of the children and was laughing a lot.

After the function Manisha Kulkani talked about the practical lessons of some of the plays; that one (the doctor) is not supposed to use an injection needle more than once, that one (the barber) is supposed to use a clean blade in shaving etc.

Another play was stressing Mahatma Gandhi’s point that we are all equal in spite of our religions and birth, and that Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and Christians all are meant to live with each other in peace and mutual respect.

It was obvious that both the parents and all the rest of the audience were having a wonderful time and enjoyed the extraordinary talents and skillfulness of the children with all their heart.

It was a day of harvesting the fruit of the 7 years hard labor since the schools were founded and we offer our deep-felt thanks to the teachers of MovingSchool.

New Floating School

The floating School that has been a big success since it opened in 2005 now has a new twin school. The second floating school is build in the same concept, by architect Mette Lange but is improved with better materials and construction details; improved and more durable roof. It is placed next to the old FloatingSchool just next to the big sand digging camp near Tericol Fort Ferry. Mr. Shivananda is the teacher of the first floating School; Mr. Ashok is the teacher in the new floating twin school.

The new floating twin school is sponsored by the Danish Charlottenlund Rotary Club and was inaugurated with a small ceremony the 16^th of March 2007. Mette Lange cut the pink ribbon as a symbol that the school was now open to welcome and teach 25 to 30 new children.