Rural Assistance Nepal
Nepal
Summary of Project:
Rural Assistance Nepal (R A N) was set up to help advance education and to assist in the provision of healthcare in the rural areas of Nepal. Friends are supporting the salaries of teachers at two schools, the salary of a midwife at a healthpost and have helped to buy land (for building more classrooms) and school materials for schools in two villages in Dolaka and Solukhumbu.
Total Funding Goal:
$5,000 USD
For yearly school operation
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How You Can Help:
- $50 towards school supplies
- $106 pays the primary teacher's salary for one month
- $117 pays for the nurse's salary for one month
To pay via Check: Make check payable to The Mountain Fund.
In the "For" section, be sure to designate this project: "RAN".
MAIL TO: 139 Madison, NE / Albuquerque, NM / 87108 / USA
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Why This Project Matters:
In 2006, Marianne visited the village school of some Tamang friends from Garimudi, in Dolakha, a district on the way to the Everest area. Shocked by the state of the school and large classes, she told her friends in the UK about what she had seen. One friend offered to pay for a teacher for a year; the 10 year old daughter of another friend sold painted Easter eggs to raise money to help the school; other friends offered donations for teachers salaries and school materials.
At the same time, friends from Deusa in Solukhumbu were telling her about the poor state of the education at the school in their village. Trekking with a villager from Deusa who was working as a porter to earn some extra cash, Dev Chandra Rai told of his concern for his daughters’ education at the school.
Although a farmer in the village, Dev’s English is very good as he went to school in India.
So when asked why not teach English at the school, he responded that he didn’t know how to teach.
But do the other teachers know how to teach?
Good point – no, maybe not. Teacher training in Nepal is basic if it exists at all.
Using material sent from the British Council’s website and books on how to teach English, Dev is surprising his students by teaching them in a way that is very different to the style they are used to – speaking English in his English lessons and trying to make his lessons interactive and stimulating.
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The school has since identified a need for a science teacher to teach up to Class 10 for the School Leaving Certificate (SLC). It is very difficult to find qualified teachers willing to work in the remote villages, as life is hard away from the city.
To help the head teacher with running the school and to bring new ideas and motivation to the teachers, a third teacher joined in May 2008. From Darjeeling, Mohan teaches to a very high standard and is already making a great difference.
During the year, books have been sent to both schools to set up libraries so the children can borrow books.
Some materials have been sent – wall charts to brighten classrooms, musical instruments, art materials and sports equipment.
Donations helped to buy land adjacent to the school in Deusa so that extra classrooms can be built.
Since two years ago when just two students out of 30 passed their School leaving Cerificate; last year 9 students out of about 28 – this year 14 students out of 24 (58%) succeeded in passing.
Students who found English their worst subject, are devoting time in their summer vacation for extra English lessons.
Interest from doctors from Expedition Medicine (www.expeditionmedicine.co.uk) to volunteer time to help the healthpost in Deusa, has meant it is now running again after several years since the Maoists forced its closure.
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Where This Project Is Located: This Project is located in Nepal.
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Click HERE to visit the Rural Assistance Nepal website.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 February 2010 23:44 |
