This is the End
on Mark Takefman in Barmer (India), 04/Feb/2011 04:57, 34 days ago
As I quickly approach the end of my two year posting in Barmer, Rajasthan working at SURE I have been reflecting on what I was able to accomplish during this time. My exit report lists two pages of items that I feel (optimistically) were positive changes and relationships that I was involved with. But while I do cherish these accomplishments, I was not totally satisfied when I left SURE the first time (back in June 2010 to work with VSO India and the UNDP on a special project in Delhi) as my main suggestion, one in which the SURE leadership agreed with, was that a new Executive Director be placed in the organization, offering them a new level of professionalism and fund raising capacity, was not met.VSO India had lined up three CSOs in Jharkhand for me to work with and I began my preliminary work with them when Mr. Mag Raj Jain called me to ask me to meet with him andLataKachhawaha (Secretary and Joint-Secretary respectively) in Barmer.At that meeting they told me that they now fully agreed that a newEDwas needed at SURE and would I come back to recruit one.  Well I did return and cutting to the chase,Mr.AmitSharmafromJodhpurwas selected for the post, one in which he too accepted. So if I may toot my own horn at this time, this was the proverbial feather in the cap of my work and I leave SURE on Feb 14thwith a nice sense of completion and am satisfied that if Mr. Sharma and SURE’s Executive Committee can work with each other, then SURE will flourish to the potential I have always seen in it.  I wish them all the best good luck. Next:Chengdu,Sichuan,Chinaat theChengdu Urban River Association for one year. Stay tunes for a new BLOG on this adventure. Traveler, there are no roads, roads are made by travelling.– Spanish Proverb No virus found in this message.Checked by AVG -www.avg.comVersion: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3419 - Release Date: 02/02/11