Rebuilding Budland School, Nepal.
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Support our mission to rebuild and develop Budland School, Nepal.
About Budland School.
Budland School was founded in 2009 to increase the quality of education of the area around Baluwapati. This village sits within the Kavre district in Nepal only fifty kilometres from the epicentre of the earthquakes, which shocked and devastated Nepal between April and May in 2015. Most of the buildings collapsed, including the school. The redevelopment phase in this area has only begun to be visible over the last six months.
The school is still struggling and in need of support; while still teaching out of a fragile and inefficient small tin shelter, which fails to cope with many of the seasonal elements (intense summer heat, harsh winters, noise, rain and dust for example). They are also still lacking in many facilities.
The school cares for and teaches 71 children ranging from nursery up to class 3 (9 years old). The school focuses on their commitments to pre-school (before the official start of schooling at six years, which is also not well governed or enforced in rural areas due to Nepal's lack of infrastructure). Throughout pre-school and up to class 3 they focus on giving the children further English lessons as well as Nepali to give them a good grounding for better education and opportunity in life. Rather than to just follow in their parent’s footsteps, they will be able to think for themselves and have more choices. English, for example, would open doors for them to work within Nepal’s growing and largest industry; tourism.
About us.
We have been volunteering within the area since the earthquakes, and are concerned that the service this school offers will close without support. We also feel there is a lot of room to help them develop this school further. We have been involved with building earthquake relief structures, permanent housing, sanitary facilities and toilets, for local houses as well as the school, before this project.
I am also personally sponsoring a child which I managed to get into the school after seeing her family's lack of understanding of education, due to being uneducated themselves, while we were building their house. This was my first interaction with the school in 2015, which has led me to grow concerned about it through my initial visits back to Nepal.
From my time in the area volunteering and assessing them for the project I realised the government in rural mountainous areas were not enforcing parents to send their children to school, which is supposed to be mandatory. This is largely due to their lack of infrastructure and logistics; they haven’t even got full and complete statistics and data available on the area.
I realised that with just a little more time and effort we could be assessing families with tragic circumstances and starting scholarships with the school. The school have agreed these scholarships, and from my experience I know that we can break the negative reoccurring cycles in uneducated families of not understanding education's importance, or of families going through personal tragic circumstances, to prevent them from falling further into despair.
What is happening now?
We have now secured the land. The land has needed to be developed for the new proposed design. We have just built a retaining wall to hold the weight of the proposed building and stop the land from sliding.
Due to the success and the cost of the investment of this retaining wall we have negotiated the first scholarship to start and got our first child, Raju Tamang, on the program early, before we have even built the school, which is great news!
Our fundraising over the last year has been going well, but we still have a long way to go. We are now looking for donations to build the main school building with facilities for both education, sanitation, a kitchen and a library (we are also collecting children’s books).
The school registration has been extended to class five, which is full primary (11 years old). We will also want to develop their school to include even further training for teachers along with a permanent teaching volunteer program to increase the efficiency of teaching English.
This is a large project but we have come a long way already, we just need further support with material costs (with the only expense being local village tradesman who will be subsidised with the use of international volunteers' support).
We guarantee that all of your kind donations will go towards these said materials. We have the building design currently under application which we will publish as soon as it is passed to build. We aim to be building as soon as possible.
For further Information please see our website;
buildingbudland.com
or contact me directly through my email;
[email redacted]
and I will be more than happy to talk further about the project.
Organizer
David Wilson
Organizer
