The little school that's teaching a whole village.

Months following the devasting earthquake(s) in Nepal we are still struggling to deal with the aftermath. For the school program it's meant making some temporary adjustments. For starters, we've had to shrink from 3 classrooms down to one. The other two classrooms are currently occupied by three families who lost their homes in the quakes. That's meant we've had to dismantle the computer-based learning program for a while as there just isn't enough space for it in the already overcrowded single classroom.

We've adjusted the focus to spend more time in one-on-one tutoring and assistance with homework assignments from the government school. Breakfast club has also been discontinued but it's been replaced by a lunch program. As Her Farm is only a ten minute walk away from the government school, we now invite the entire student body to the farm for lunch everyday. That's working out very well since our morning group is typically in the 20-30 student range now that we aren't running the computer classes so not near as many children were getting breakfast as when all three classrooms were up and running. We're getting a large turnout for lunch (40-50) so we know the children are getting at least one full, balanced meal a day. 

With delays in the government's reconstruction program it will most likely be mid-September at the earliest before people start rebuilding homes in the village. Once the families living in the classrooms are able to return homee, we will implement the full programs at the little school again.