Build classrooms for 250 children in Nepal.

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