By Lisa Lyons | U.S. Director
Although it sometimes seems as though years have passed, in reality it has been only two months since the massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated Nepal, and a month and a half since the second 7.3-magnitude quake. Since then, Educate the Children's Nepal-based staff has been very busy indeed, helping ensure that kids can get back to school.
ETC has provided building materials and technical/logistical support to eight Dolakha District schools for temporary learning centers (TLCs), including Niko Bhumi Higher Secondary School (photos attached). All 30 schools in ETC's current project area were badly damaged or destroyed. It is our goal to support TLC construction at all 30 of these schools, as well as at 26 schools in the other Dolakha villages where we worked from 2008-2014, funding permitting.
ETC has provided school supplies and classroom/recreational materials at eighteen Dolakha District schools, to replace those lost when schools and homes collapsed. Again, we will support all 30 schools and all 3,000+ students in our current project area in this way, and (funding permitting) will also provide similar support at other schools with which we have worked in past years.
Last but not least, our fantastic Education Director Mr. Laxmi Basukala has written a book, soon to be published, that will be distributed to as many teachers and kids as possible. The book is designed to help the kids cope with the psychological trauma and lingering effects that many of them have experienced. Professionally developed resources of this kind are scarce in rural Nepali villages, and we congratulate Mr. Basukala for having conceived the idea in the first place and for having followed through with it so quickly, especially given everything else he has had to do recently.
We are very grateful to you, our friends and supporters, for making this work possible. Conditions in Nepal are not "normal" at present, and probably will not be for a long while to come. That said, it is so important - not only for the students and their families, but also for the well-being of these communities as a whole - that the kids can resume their interrupted educations and get on with their lives!
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