The application for the next grant was accepted. For about the last six months or so we have been working on it, so the vocational training project can keep running. We had a meeting yesterday, we talked about all the new things that need to happen in this new phase. It took me an hour and a half to get there because I got a bit lost on the way. Spent way too much time in the sun yesterday.

On Monday morning I had a board meeting. We don't have internet at home and there are no internet cafes near where we live. I often use the connection in Soeun's office but it has been off a lot lately and really slow. So I hadn't checked my email over the weekend, I only found out the location of the meeting by sms the night before. And I assumed the meeting was about the proposal we are writing, as thats what the last few have been about. But it turned out it was about the evaluation, which I hadn't read because I hadn't been able to download. Grrrrr.
We have our next meeting this Monday. This morning I was trying to read both the documents, and rewrite a part of the proposal but I don't really understand all this stuff.

Vocational training

The other day I went to a workshop-type meeting about writing visions, mission statements etc. It was part of the process we are going through to apply for more funding for a vocational training project.
I have been a board member for this project since May 2007, but I'm still feeling like I'm learning more than I'm helping. At the moment the Project is having an evaluation done, and the proposal for funding is being written. The funding comes from a European government, via a Christian organization in that country. They give the money to a mission agency that has people here in Cambodia.