Creating child-friendly Learning Center in Nepal

Parahu - “Let’s Study”

Creating a child-friendly Learning Centre in Nepal

Project Update: March 2022

Workshop Planning

In February, two international interns from the Institute of Social Work, University College Copenhagen joined our team at SAATH. They have been working on the planning and breakdown of the bi-weekly workshops for the children at the learning center. 

Public Speaking, Leadership, and Social Skills are some of the areas that the children of Parahu Learning Center will participate in. After creating a module that can be applied in Dhanushadham, we will be providing training for the facilitators of the learning center so that they can transfer the learning to the children. The facilitator will be trained and practice it among themselves prior to the application of the process. 

The thematic workshops will be organized for a selected group of children from Grade 6 on a biweekly basis. 

Stationery Drive

While the stationery distribution is carried out every month for the children attending the learning center in Dhanushadham, children attending private and public schools in Kathmandu are taking initiatives in collecting the stationery supplies in their respective schools. It is so humbling to see these children supporting their peers who attend schools in different geography and context. 

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When we started working with the children of Parahu Learning Center a few months back, their number had already increased from 190 to 205. At present, the facilitators report that the number has increased from 205 to 280. 280 children are being accommodated in the two classrooms of the learning center. With only 4 facilitators catering to the learning needs of the children, we hope to focus on the capacities of the facilitators as well as children going to higher grades as a way forward. 

Parahu - “Let’s Study”

Creating a child-friendly Learning Centre in Nepal

Project Update

Second round of Stationery distribution was conducted for the children visiting the learning center in January. The number of children coming to the learning center is on a rise at the moment. The highest record of attendance has been 263 by far. Stationery is distributed in accordance with the grades the children attend in the formal school.

We have been able to hire Mr. Bharat Sada as one of the new facilitators for the children of the learning center. With this, the total number of facilitators at the learning center is now 4. Bharat is also a part of the same Musahar community that houses the learning center. 

We also paid a visit to UNICEF based in Dhanusha district to seek any collaboration opportunity for the learning center. The Staff Association has joined hands with us to support the children with stationery supplies as a starting point. We will be exploring other collaboration opportunities with UNICEF in the near future. 

The students club at Triyog High School recently provided stationery materials for the children of the learning center. The collaboration between SAATH and Triyog High School is an annual engagement whereby student-student support has been enabled through their student club. 

Way Forward

Continued Monthly Stationery Drive for the children of the learning center

Weekly Facilitator’s Meeting 

Monthly Workshop for the children of the learning center on Leadership and Public Speaking 

Collaboration with Schools to support the children at the learning center

Links:

• http://www.saath.org.np