School Environment Improvement Program - Nepal

Nearly half decade passed away since we had first launched our training program for the local youths and student in Mirge VDC of Dolkha District towards the implementation of School Environment Improvement Program in schools. Since then, lots of meetings with relevant stakeholders, training for local youths and students, monitoring visit and excursion program has been organized in order to capacitate our stakeholders of our program. With lots of ups and downs, discussion with locals during implementation of programs, new concept and strategies to improve the condition of school environment, we now have been able to view many changes in the school and in the community. With passing time, the local representative expressed their views of our program as follows:

Mr. Dhurba Pakhrin (Nature Club Facilitator Teacher – Majhgau Lower Secondary School) says “Usually, the children from Tamang Community are pretty shy in nature. They do not interact freely with new faces. But, through various extra-curricular activities regularly implemented in school and community, the students are very open with new people as well as now-a-days interact freely with other people. In other words, the speaking capacities of students are greatly enhanced through the activities of nature club in school”.

Mr. Bomhari Dahal (Principal, Kalidhunga Higher Sec. School) expresses that “I found a lot of behaviour changes, activeness and willingness to take responsibilities among students before and after establishing nature club in school. The students after operation of nature clubs are well disciplined and well behaved along with their active involvement in improving school environment to facilitate learning in schools. The students regularly organize various programs in school as well as in community thus helping us towards reaching out to community members and conveying our message to them as well. In general, the operation of nature club  supported us a lot in improving the learning environment as well as the relation with teachers and students our school”.

Ms. Kalpana Dahal (mother of a student from Kalidevi School) expressed her joy of her son’s educational improvement as he started to keep himself clean, tidy as well as initiated preserving local environment nearby her house after his involvement in nature club established in school. She shared that everyone in the community also appreciates her that her son shares other children about need to change the environmental issues and she feels proud that her son is involved in various activities through Nature Club.

We would like to thank all our supporters or donors who support for Mirge school environment improvement project. Because all of your small supports joining together is making positive changes in the school and students behavior.

We Thank You for all of this changes, achievements and accomplishment in the school and community. Without your support we would not have made any difference in the community. We’d like to thank YOU for your continuous support to us. Updates on our activities are also regularly posted in our Facebook page, Blog Posts, Twitter and in our youtube channel. Please subscribe and share our activities. We look forward towards your valuable suggestions on our activities. Please help us promoting our activities through your social networking sites as well.

Thanks & Regards,

Angel Chitrakar

Sr. Program Officer

ECCA

The month of September and October has been busy organizing programs related with safe drinking water and herbal garden in school and community by the nature club members of Kali Devi LSS, Kalidhunga HSS, Majhgau LSS and Laligurans Bright Future Boarding School. During this period, the students actively participated in training programs in school, door to door programs in community and activities related with herbal garden in school.

Mr. Bipin and Mr. Sobhit (both from ECCA office), facilitated two days training on Safe Drinking water for the nature club members of schools on 2nd & 3rd September. The program targeted the nature club members and teachers of respective school to use and produce chlorine solution in their daily life as well as strengthen the management of Nature Club activities in school and community. 48 participants including teachers and students benefited through the training program towards proper management and implementation of chlorine and the chlorination technology in their school and community. During the training program, all the students were actively involved towards the development of six month action plan focusing on uses of chlorine in drinking water and in school environment of school through strengthening activities in their school and communities.

As a part of several activities to be implemented within the six month planning, the participants came up with brilliant ideas like cultural program to conserve Nepali culture, herbal gardening to make the school environment green, school cleaning activities to make school environment neat, clean and free of diseases, wall magazine to increase the writing capacity of students, door to door activity to aware the locals about clean drinking water.

Since 2010, after the implementation of Mirge School Environment Improvement Program in various schools, we are feeling very proud that students on their own are now capable of initiating and implementing programs and activities on their own in their schools and community through nature club. Appointment of Ms. Manamaya as ECCA staff has also played a supportive role towards monitoring and guiding activities of child club at field level.

On various dates of October, the nature club members were busy organizing door to door activities in their community. Achieving the objectives to aware the community members on safe drinking water, the nature club members were also able to create a harmonious relationship between community members along with some income through selling WATASOL (chlorine solution) in the community.

Reviewing our involvement of our project in Mirge till date, we have found the nature club members are more active in schools, the teachers more responsible towards their activities in school and parents more supportive towards the schools initiation. We Thank You for all of this changes, achievements and accomplishment in the school and community. Without your support we would not have made any difference in the community.

We are also very happy and proud to share that ECCA has been awarded with “Nature Conservation Award” from National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), Nepal.

We’d like to thank YOU for your continuous support to us. Updates on our activities are also regularly posted in our Facebook page, Blog Posts and twiter. Please subscribe and share our activities. We look forward towards your valuable suggestions on our activities. Please help us promoting our activities through your social networking sites as well.

Thanks & Regards,

Angel Chitrakar

Sr. Program Officer

ECCA