Introduction:

Bagh Bhairab Secondary School of Chaughare, Lalitpur district was established in 1960. The school has 14 staff serving more than 250 students from nursery to grade 10. The school is around 40 kilometers away from Kathmandu.

Need:

The school conducts its classes and administrative activities from ten rooms that are operational. Since at least 12 rooms are required for its basic operations, it has partitioned its classrooms into smaller rooms to provide a room to each grade. To address school’s need for additional classrooms, the District Education Office, Lalitpur provided a partial grant to complete the construction of a four room building. With the assistance of the District Development Office, Lalitpur and Village Development Office, Chaughare, it completed the construction of two rooms and completed the frame for two more rooms. The school is seeking for resources to complete these two rooms so that classes can be conducted at those rooms.

Solution:

We were approached by the school to help it complete the construction of two rooms. We have made field visits to the school to assess the need of the school and have held discussions with the school regarding our involvement in the project.

The school management committee has expressed its desire to contribute at least 25 percent of the estimated cost of about NRs. 670,000 (US$ 8,000).

An agreement was signed with the school on June 9, 2013 and the construction is expected to complete by end of August.

For more photos of the school, please see the album below:

Introduction:

Guru Lower Secondary School, in Bukhel village development committee ward number 1, Lalitpur district, was established in 1980. The school has 13 staff serving more than 200 students from nursery to grade eight. The school is around 40 kilometers away from Lalitpur ring road, Satdobato.

Need:

The school runs nine different classes – from nursery to grade eight. Hence it requires nine different classrooms to conduct classes. However, it has two buildings with eight classrooms. Taking into account that a room is allocated as a teachers’ room to conduct administrative activities, there are seven rooms available for nine different classes. Hence, the school is forced to conduct multi-grade teaching (having students from two grades) in at least two classrooms.

To address this, the Bukhel village development committee had provided assistance to the school to construct a two room concrete building. As the funds available was not sufficient to complete the building, the school could only finish up the frame for the building (see picture above) and classes cannot be conducted in this building yet.

Solution:

The school needs external support to complete the construction of two rooms in this building. The estimated cost of this project is around NRs. 400,000 (around US$ 4,600). The community has agreed to share a portion of the estimated cost of this project.

After the start of work, the building is expected to be completed within 3 months.

An agreement was signed with the school for completing the building construction on May 6, 2013.

For more pictures of the school, please see the album below:

Background:

Thakursthan Lower Secondary School in Budhakhani, Kaverepalanchowk district was established in 1996. The school has eight teachers and staff serving more than 160 students. It is around 75 kilometers away from Kathmandu on metaled and graveled road and an hour of walking distance from nearby gravel road.

Need:

The school is conducting classes up to grade seven and is planning to upgrade to grade eight in the upcoming year. It has received a partial grant from the District Education Office, Kavrepalanchowk to complete a two room building. However, considering the future need, the school is planning to add a room to building. With the lack of financial resources, the school could not complete even the two room building.

Solution:

We are helping the school complete the two room building and add a third room to it. We will also be helping the school set up a drinking water system. The school will bear a quarter of the estimated cost of the project.

An MoU was signed with the school on December 2, 2012 and the work is expected to start from mid December and to finish by mid March.

To view more photos of the school, please see the album below: