By Rachel Deery | Grant Writer
Hello All Hands Volunteers Donors!
It has been an incredibly busy couple of months for our team of volunteers on the ground in Nepal. Monsoon season has hit with tremendous force and work has become increasingly difficult in the rugged Nepal terrain. Our volunteers are pushing through though and continuing to lift the spirits of the Nepalese families. The rebuilding of schools is critical in the process of beneficiaries returning to a sense of normalcy and we have teamed up with local organizations to construct 5 schools in different villages in Nepal. Three of the five schools are underway and work is being completed every day in order to provide the children the proper space to learn.
We are expanding to hard hit villages to ensure that those that are most in need are being assisted. As mentioned before, the monsoon is making it difficult to access certain areas but the issue has been solved by creating “mobile sites” that house about 20 volunteers and a team lead. These mobile sites operate separately from the base and allow the volunteers to cut out the long travel time to remote areas in Nepal. For 2 weeks the volunteers work out of the mobile site which keeps the volunteers safe and completes the work much faster.
At our Prithivi location the first floor of one of the four classroom buildings is nearing completion. Excavation for the second four classroom building will be finished in the coming weeks. At our Jalpa location the two classroom retrofit of the damaged Room to Read school is complete. The new three classroom building is nearing completion, with the brick walls complete up to the lintel band and preparation underway for laying the roof trusses. Door and window frames have been installed. Bricklaying has begun at our Bachchala location for the first four classroom building, and the site has been backfilled around the foundation. However, extreme monsoon activity at this location -- flooding and landslides – forced the team to spend significant amounts of time repairing road, campsite and worksite damage. Then, within days, new downpours have undone the improvements or created new issues, requiring more time away from school construction.
The progress being made in Nepal is outstanding and we are continuing to work with our amazing partners on the ground to assist the victims of this disaster. Your continued support is greatly appreciated and invite you to stay up to date with our work by visiting our website, many thanks!
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