Education Nepal Project #24079

Build classrooms for 250 children in Nepal.

by The Small World

Project Report | Dec 16, 2016
Students are excited to study in new classroom

By Karma Sherpa | Project Leader

Devastating Nepal earthquake destroyed classrooms students were unable to attend school and lack conducive environment to get their education. More than one million children had to attend school without a safe place to study. The schools were damaged or destroyed during the devastating earthquake.

Now, we are more than happy to share with you, the completion of our Mukli Lower Secondary School in Mukli VDC, Solukhumbhu. We helped to build two classrooms for the school which benefitted 100 students. The School building is built with permanent earthquake resistance classrooms designed by certified engineer and approved by Nepal Government using reinforce cement concrete (RCC) structure model as first-of its kind classroom within the region.

According to Principal of the School Devi Bahadur Basnet, “the teaching and learning practice has been easy. Due to good infrastructure, teachers also feel safe and there is improvement in overall performance of teacher and students”.

With the construction of these classrooms, children are able to resume their class. There is increase in the number of attendance. It has made the children feel safe about going to the school, and so do the parents. The drop rate of children has decrease and those who had dropped to return back to school have increased. Most importantly, it has helped them not to be prey of early marriage, trafficking and slavery of any form.

We thank you all for your generous donation which has helped to fulfill the dreams of these children of going to school. The response from the community has been overwhelming. In, 2017 we intend to build 10 classrooms in lower Everest region. So, no more children are left behind in pursuing their education. Do stay with US.

Namaste & Happy Holidays!!

Karma Sherpa

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Sep 12, 2016
Build Classrooms for 250 Children in Nepal

By Karma Sherpa | Project Leader

It’s been a year how all our life change in instant. The devastating earthquake of April 25^th and May 12 took life of 9000 lives and made many homeless. Thousands of schools were destroyed during the quake. TSW started working towards earthquake relief and recovery from the day 3 of the earthquake. We worked towards food, tarps, medicine distribution in most affected districts. We reached over 17,000 .Our focus now is in getting children back to school as our thematic work areas is child protection and to ensure child education in remote areas of Solukhumbu.

In Solukhumbhu district, where we work, 1045 classrooms have been destroyed. Children have no school to attend which is hinting towards gap years in children’s education in remote Nepal. We are under way to build 18 classroom in the most affected schools. But we have more to do. We aim to construct one school in one VDC to ensure that at least one VDC has at least one standing school.

The school that we aim to construct through global giving fundraising is Mukli Lower Secondary School in Mukli VDC, Solukhumbhu. Mukli is a remote VDC in Solukhumbu which is a 2 day walk from headquarter of Solukhumbhu. We are happy to share with you that a first phase work of meeting with local communities for school building has been conducted to form a construction committee of 7 members which also include the school principal and TSW staff.

In the second phase, we discussed with local communities about what local resources are available and what needs to be supplied externally. Through the discussion and meeting, we came to conclusion that locally available materials will be supplied by the locals and external resources will be by NGO partner – The Small World. Durign the meeting it was also decided that the school design approved by government engineer will be adopted in the school to make it earthquake resistance safe building for children. TSW is responsible for design and all government approval. The local construction committee members are responsible for local resources, local workers and will get training on how to build an earthquake resistant school.

Now, the foundation wok has been completed. The local construction committee with social mobilization of local people have gathered the local materials like woods, stones, sands and external resource like iron rebar, tin roof, engineers are managed by TSW.

Local communities and student are happy to see school building in progress. We are glad to see the hope of rays in parent’s eye and that their dream of continuing their child education is being fulfilled in front of their eyes.

Thank you all for your generous support, we hope you will continue your support and share about this project with your family, friends or any foundation or company that is interested to give light of education so as to keep these children in safe classroom with good teaching & learning environment.

Thank you and Namaste!

Karma Sherpa
www.thesmallworld.org

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