"Support-A-Child" Help Child Go To School & Study

ECCA supported 10 needy students from Shree Janajyoti Basic School located in a rural plain of Jhapa District (eastern Nepal) with stationery items (copies, pens, pencils, erasers, sharpeners and geometry box). Along with the stationery support, game materials (Football, Volley Ball, Ring, Skipping, Flying Disk and Ludo) were also supported to the school for physical education, games. The materials were handed over to the Principal and Child Club responsible teacher of the school.

Mr. Tuk, Principal at Shree Janajyoti Basic School, said, “Our school is backward in terms of quality education and facilitiesdue to geographic isolation. Thus, the school support program from ECCA is very effective. We are very thankful to get stationeries and game materials, which will help our children to continue their education in a fun environment. We look forward for more assistance in the future.”

There are 167 students enrolled in the school and more than 80 percent students belong to indigenous group.

ECCA is also thankful for your support.

Waste segregation bins were supported in Shree Siddheshwor Secondary School located in Tamakoshi Rural Municipality-4, Dolakha district (around 150 km north of Kathmandu in central Nepal). Altogether 6 big fabric dustbins for school premise, 22 PVC dustbins for classrooms (separate dustbins for degradable and non-degradable waste for each class), 11 brooms and 11 dust pans were provided. The objective of providing these materials was to make the students aware about the importance of WASH and sanitation materials, which would help to improve WASH behavior in students. During the hand over program, the teachers and students were oriented on how to manage the waste.

Supriya, a tenth grade student, shared “A large volume of waste used to be generated in our school. The problem of waste segregation, waste burning, and littering practices was very common. But the situation is changing now after what we learned from ECCA. We are now focusing on reducing the volume of waste produced and on providing the much-needed awareness in waste management among students and teachers. We have the responsibility to help in maintaining the appearance of the school by keeping the area clean, for which we now always use indoor and outdoor dustbins for waste collection. This has also helped to keep the school environment clean and beautiful, which has made the school coming very charming for the students. We are very thankful for the support”.

We thank you for your continued support.

Because of COVID-19 pandemic, physical presence classes were not held in Nepal for almost one and half years. As the pandemic was gradually reduced, the schools started physical presence classes. However, preventive measures are still required to be taken.

To support the students coming from low income families, ECCA provided reusable washable cloth face mask in six schools located in Hetauda Sub Metropolitan, ward 19, Bagmati Province. This has helped the students to come and study.

The Principal of Ganesh Basic School thanked ECCA and the donor agency for providing the washable face mask for the students (and teachers), which helped them to come to school.

We also thank you for the support.

Shree Janajyoti Secondary School is located in Janagal, Banepa-10, Kavrepalanchok district, Nepal. Community Drinking Water Project constructed an intake at a surface water source located uphill (around 600 meter from school). At the intake, this project allocated one connection outlet (of half inch diameter) for the school. Underground cement tank (20,000 liter capacity) was also constructed at the school premises from the government fund. However, due to shortage of fund, pipe connection from the water source intake to the school’s underground tank was pending, for which the school approached ECCA for the support. ECCA supported for the pipe purchase and labor (to lay the pipe).

The work is in progress. After completion of the works, the school will have sufficient water, which will ease the daily life of students making them happy when going to school.

We thank you for your support.

When child friendly facilities are developed in the school, the children love to go to school. Considering this aspect, separate child friendly hand washing station and drinking water station were constructed at Shree Shikshya Vikash Secondary School, Letang, Morang (in east Nepal). These facilities benefitted 655 students (305 boys and 350 girls).

Water tank containing treated drinking water was connected to the drinking water station through a separate plumbing-piping system. The height of tap at the drinking water station was kept at different levels for easy reach of students of lower class.

School teacher Mr. Devi Prasad thanked ECCA and the donor agency for the support, and shared that the students were very excited to use such child friendly facilities.