Author: monika

  • Taltuleshwori School Handed Over To Community

    Taltuleshwori School Handed Over To Community

    Last February, a little over a year since commencing the reconstruction of Taltuleshwori School in Thangpalkot, Sindhupalchok, we were finally able to hand it over to the community in a small ceremony conducted at the school.

    In addition to COMMITTED Team Members, including Executive Director Jayjeev Hada, Program Coordinator Gautam Lamichhane Magar and Senior Program Coordinator Khechar Acharya, members of the School Management Committee, school staff and local community members were present at the formal ceremony.

    A glimpse of the ceremony.

    Executive Director inaugurates the new school buildings.

    Executive Director Jayjeev, other COMMITTED members and school officials after the inauguration.

    Executive Director Jayjeev speaks at the ceremony.

    The school with the students on the grounds.

    As an organization, COMMITTED frowns upon such ceremonies and have been doing what it can to eliminate all or parts of such formal functions. More than anything, such functions in Nepal serve as platforms for people who have a knack for talking, among other things!

    Here’s what the school looked like in early May 2016 when school had resumed following the completion of reconstruction of most of the academic blocks.

    For more about the reconstruction of the school follow the links below.

    • Click here for a Facebook post about the handover ceremony.
    • Click here for the first (January 16, 2016) blog post about COMMITTED’s decision to rebuilt the school and the initial phase of the project.
    • Click here for a February 2, 2016 update on the progress of the project.
    • Click here for another blog post (published on Feburary 11, 2016) about the school and our efforts.
    • Click here for a February 18, 2016 update on the progress of the project.
    • Click here for a May 4, 2016, Facebook post about the completion of the first phase of the reconstruction project.
    • Click here for a May 6, 2016, Facebook post about the progress of the reconstruction.
    • Click here for a blog post published on June 21, 2016 containing financial details of the project as reported to the District Education Office the preceding week.
  • SIS Canada in South Korea Visits Thangpalkot

    SIS Canada in South Korea Visits Thangpalkot

    A group of students from SIS Canada in South Korea, accompanied by their Principal Marc Daneault visited Thangpalkot earlier this month. As part of their Spring trip to Nepal, the student raised funds to assist COMMITTED on our quest to build and refurnish the libraries destroyed by the April 25, 2015, earthquake.They were able to raise US$2000 towards it. With US$500 they bought books and library accessories from a publishing house based in Kathmandu for Kumveshwori Primary School in Gunsa. The group handed us the rest of the funds to help us continue our library-related work in the area.(Incidentally, this isn’t the first time they have contributed funds to COMMITTED.)The group went to Thangpalkot on April 8, accompanied by our Education Program Director, Dorje Gurung, and after spending a night in the village, they continued on with their trekking program.While in Thangpalkot, the group had an International Friendly Football Match with the local students the afternoon they arrived. The following morning, they handed over the books to Kumveshwori Primary School officials.

    SIS Canada students and Principal ready to hit the road to Thangpalkot.

    Football action late afternoon of April 8 on the newly renovated footfall field next to Saat Kanya Primary School. (SIS Canada students are in red.)

    SIS Canada student formally hands over the books to a Kumveshwori School official in the library COMMITTED recently built.

    The books (in boxes) and library accessory (book sleeves to hang and display books on a wall).

    Group photos after the handover ceremony.

    COMMITED is very grateful to SIS Canada students and Marc, their Principal, for all their efforts raising funds for our library projects and for visiting us. We hope that this is just the first of many more trips to come! We very much look forward to continued collaboration and support.

    Be sure to return for updates on how the rest of the funds are being used.

  • Post Earthquake: What We Have Done and Accomplished So Far

    Post Earthquake: What We Have Done and Accomplished So Far

    Last week, a team from COMMITTED attended the Education Cluster meeting the District Headquarter, Chautara. The meeting was held at the District Education Office. All NGO’s and INGO’s involved in post-earthquake reconstruction in the district of Sindhupalchok were represented.The purpose was to present — to the district officials — details of post-earthquake education-related work NGO’s and INGO’s were conducting in the district.
    Reproduced below are some of the important details presented at the three-hour gathering. Click on any image for the original and a slide show.
    (NPR and US$ exchange rate is approximately NPR 100.00 = US$1.00. So, just drop the last two digits and you’ll get an approximate value in US dollars.)

    For a glimpse into a Temporary Learning Center (TLC), click here. The blog post contains an embedded video of Raithane School TLC.

    For more on the Star Reader and Writer program, click here. For some photos of the winter jacket distribution, click here. For more on the work that was carried out on the fishery, click here.

    (You can read up on the reconstruction of Taltuleshwori here, here, here and here. For a video of the almost complete school, click here; it’s embedded in the blog post. For some photos, click here.

    For some photos of the reconstruction of Chilaune School click here and here. For a video, click here; it’s embedded in the blog post.)

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