By Ryan Patterson | Director
Dearest Donors,
It has been several months since our last report regarding Nepal. When we last reported the monsoon was coming down. Little did we know that the politics were playing out as well. It seems these days that nowhere is left unaffected.
In Nepal there is a group of rebels, if you will, called Maoists. They broke from the Communist Party of Nepal and started a rampage in 1996 to overthrow the Monarchy. This was a Civil War and lasted until 2006. A quick Google search will disclose the brutal tactics they used to manipulate the system. The conflict was characterized by summary executions, massacres, purges, kidnapping and other war crimes and crimes against humanity. The insurgency resulted in deaths of over 17,000 people including civilians, insurgents, army and police personnel, and internal displacement of hundreds of thousands of people (mostly of rural Nepal). According to INSEC, 1,665 of the dead were women. It also resulted in them getting a legitimate seat in government.
Sorry for the details as the days of real conflict are over, but in short, they have an influence in rural Nepal. Sadly, they have been elected to the district of Gorkha and the area where we were building our Teacher Training Center. They have decided that an outside "influence" on their education system is against their interests. We have unanimously decided that we will move on and build more schools instead. After all, this is about the children and not the politics!
There are still hundreds of schools that need rebuilt, villages that need support and kids that need our love and help. The Director of our partner NGO is on the ground in the region as I write this to finalize the work we started and to calculate our next move.
Thank you again and again for your continued support. We have completed hundreds of classrooms together with The Gorkha Foundation and have hundreds more to go. We will continue to persevere through the challenges. If it was easy everyone would be doing it. Stay tuned for more updates and a first-hand account of how Children We Serve is changing the lives of so many students in rural areas of developing countries.
In Gratitude,
All of us at CWS
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