Help Rebuild a Nepal School after the Earthquake

After the massive earthquake on 25th of April 2015 in Nepal, 747 school buildings and 2390 classroom were damaged and huge numbers of student were affected in Makwanpur. It will take many years for Makwanpur to fully recover from the devastating effects of the earthquake, however we are doing all we possibly can to get children back into school and safe from traffickers.

The DEO (Department of Education Office) in Makwanpur provided us with a list of schools that needed our urgent support.  We decided to make an assessment of the area and identify the worst effected schools.   During this evaluation, CRN visited 41 community schools and have selected 22 schools which after thorough investigation, we felt were important to support. 

Nothing is straight forward in Nepal, once the 22 schools had been selected CRN had to get approval from the Department of Education and National Reconstruction Authority in Kathmandu. The agreement letter includes the financial management, working guideline, time frame and all the rules and regulation for each school.

CRN in conjunction with DEO have formed a construction committee in each school. Each committee includes the school principle, SMC chairperson, PTA member, WCF member including community and a CRN representative. This committee is responsible for dealing with any issues related to construction and will closely monitor all work related to construction and maintenance. Regular monitoring visits of the reconstruction work are being made.  The villagers are very aware of the misuse of resources and are lobbying to generate more community contribution.  It is imperative that the village community are involved in the school rebuilding programme.

Many of our Children are still be taught in the Temporary Learning Centres, which we constructed immediately after the earthquake, but we hope that they will all be in their new schools by the winter.  Of the 22 schools that have been selected, one school is completed finished and a number of other ones are well on the way to being completed. In total all these schools will benefit around 3860 children.

After a very recent survey we are pleased to report that all the villagers are happy and contributing all that they can. The school teachers and DEO are very positive.  The construction committee is functioning well and is on target to complete all the schools.

Thank you from all of us and more importantly from all our children in Nepal. Without your support we could never have achieved what we have, however there is a massive amount still to do and more money to be raised.