Logica - Bloom in beeld

Takeoff to MV Foundation, Hyderabad.

The preparations for the training of MV Foundation in Hyderabad are almost finished. The building team is working very hard to get the Child Monitoring System ready. During the video conference last week the application has been demonstrated to MVF. New wishes came up. Also here applies: seeing the application does discussions rise high. But everybody is enthousiast. Making the manual took me more time than expected. I got to know the system by trying myself and asking the building team. I had to amend it after every release. One advantage: as in India facilities are usually basic, the system has been kept simple. Also the training plan is ‘ready’ and aligned with Ashok Aritakula in Bangalore, who will assist with giving the training together with Geert Jan de Boer.

What more can one do to prepare oneself for a new project, a new culture? Going out with the whole Dutch team to an Indian restaurant (always recommendable); following a cultural training given by het Tropen Instituut in Amsterdam (helpful); viewing ‘Slum dog millionaire’: that was the most impressive; a colorful, good told story with suspense and emotions; the overwhelming Indian mass. And where the work of MV Foundation is focused on: for children, against child labor and Dickens-like slavery (in the square). So I know again where all this is for. Saterday we are leaving.