{"id":610,"date":"2012-02-01T01:48:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T01:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/?p=610"},"modified":"2012-02-01T01:48:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T01:48:37","slug":"search-for-our-next-school-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"Search for our next school starts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am definitely best left at home when the investigative trips are made to decide on our next school projects.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Ministry of Education gives us the schools at the top of its &#8220;most desperate&#8221; list from which we choose our projects.\u00a0 Put me in any of those schools and I&#8217;ll decide that we absolutely have to help them out.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s actually not that simple.\u00a0 Need is only the starting point &#8211; we\u00a0have to identify a school with a co-operative and energetic community and also one where the money we spend will have a significant effect on the school and the kids.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That&#8217;s where Agostinho Soares, our\u00a0 Timorese\u00a0project manager (in the stripy shirt)\u00a0comes in.\u00a0 He visits the sites, talks to the community and its leaders and the teachers.\u00a0 He also works with the builders to produce good pricing &#8211; and monitors work once it has started.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Agostinho-and-Elvino.jpg\"><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 That process is underway now &#8211; more info soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Agostinho-and-Elvino1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-612\" title=\"Agostinho and Elvino\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Agostinho-and-Elvino1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am definitely best left at home when the investigative trips are made to decide on our next school projects.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Ministry of Education gives us the schools at the top of its &#8220;most desperate&#8221; list from which we choose our projects.\u00a0 Put me in any of those schools and I&#8217;ll decide that we absolutely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5,10,9,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}