In mid November, Chris Dickinson, Trust Chairman, shown here, and Jackie Thomson, Trustee, spent 8 days in Pragatinagar and Devchuli VDCs. In that time they visited all 21 of the schools in the area. This picture shows the warm welcome given to them at Bhimsen Adarsha Secondary.
Here, Mukunda Raj Shreshta, Honorary Trustee, and Jackie, relax after a day visiting schools. The new Namaste Hotel, the first in the area, provided a comfortable base during our stay.
Chris and Jackie in class! The visit allowed us to complete an audit of all the schools, meet all the Principals and Chairmen, and listen to concerns. We also saw first hand many classes and made plans of many campuses, allowing us to best target grant funding for the future.
Students sitting proudy on and at the new furniture we funded at Surya Kiran Primary School. The benches and desks were made by a local carpenter with wood procured from the community forest. Classes were alse equipped with electric light and fans and brightened up with freshly painted walls. Just compare this to the class photographed on our last visit....below.......
Transport was often by motorcycle courtesy of locals. Here Chris is riding with the Chairman of the School management Committee of Manakamana Primary School.
A shot in a class at the embryonic Milijuli Primary School, a bamboo and grass structure that we have made a grant of £8000 pounds towards this year, to construct a new building.
A welcome from the students in the village of Kirtipur, one of our villages that is high on the slopes of Devchuli Mountain.
Mukunda, back left, and Jackie, centre front, with students of Dibyajoti Lower Secondary School. The school has spent the last two and a half years constructing this new building, after one of their original buildings collapsed. We agreed to represent the school in an external funding bid in 2011 to find the £10,000 required to finish the building.
In mid November, Chris Dickinson, Trust Chairman, shown here, and Jackie Thomson, Trustee, spent 8 days in Pragatinagar and Devchuli VDCs. In that time they visited all 21 of the schools in the area. This picture shows the warm welcome given to them at Bhimsen Adarsha Secondary.
Here, Mukunda Raj Shreshta, Honorary Trustee, and Jackie, relax after a day visiting schools. The new Namaste Hotel, the first in the area, provided a comfortable base during our stay.
Chris and Jackie in class! The visit allowed us to complete an audit of all the schools, meet all the Principals and Chairmen, and listen to concerns. We also saw first hand many classes and made plans of many campuses, allowing us to best target grant funding for the future.
Students sitting proudy on and at the new furniture we funded at Surya Kiran Primary School. The benches and desks were made by a local carpenter with wood procured from the community forest. Classes were alse equipped with electric light and fans and brightened up with freshly painted walls. Just compare this to the class photographed on our last visit....below.......
Transport was often by motorcycle courtesy of locals. Here Chris is riding with the Chairman of the School management Committee of Manakamana Primary School.
A shot in a class at the embryonic Milijuli Primary School, a bamboo and grass structure that we have made a grant of £8000 pounds towards this year, to construct a new building.
A welcome from the students in the village of Kirtipur, one of our villages that is high on the slopes of Devchuli Mountain.
Mukunda, back left, and Jackie, centre front, with students of Dibyajoti Lower Secondary School. The school has spent the last two and a half years constructing this new building, after one of their original buildings collapsed. We agreed to represent the school in an external funding bid in 2011 to find the £10,000 required to finish the building.
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