Education Nepal Project #6643

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

by Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness

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

Project Report | Jan 25, 2017
Supporting 18 ECD children of Banepa

By Upama Tamla (Rai) | Media Associate

On August 9, 2016 Shree Pragati Bal Bikash Kendra, an Early Childhood Development Centre (ECD) of Banepa, Kavre was supported with stationery materials. The support was aimed to encourage and support young children to attend the centre. 156 sets of copies, 216 pencils and 18 erasers and sharpners were distributed to all 18 children. Moreover, the centre was provided with 4 blankets to help them during the winter season.

During the distribution, teachers from the ECD expressed their warm thanks. According to them, this ECD was opened with the initiation of local women’s group. “Most of the students’ parents are involved in agriculture, making it hard for them to regularly fulfill the educational needs of children”, said one of the teachers. Analyzing the situation, 4 children with comparatively low economic condition were additionally provided with school bags.

During the program, an Officer of District Education Office Ms. Maya handed over the support materials to the students. “It is a very positive approach by ECCA. I wish every struggling child had this kind of support.”

Stationary materials being distributed to the children

DEO official Ms. Maya (right) and ECCA Program Officer Mr. Bipin (left) with the children

We are very thankful for your donation and support. We look forward to your continous interest in helping children to receive better education.

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Oct 28, 2016
Every solved problem is a lesson learnt

By Prachet Kumar Shrestha and Upama Tamla Rai | Team Leader

Children in village school

“If you are planning for a year, plant rice. If you are planning for 10 years, plant trees. If you are planning for 100 years, educate your children.”

As the saying goes, conservation and education should go hand in hand. With this concept, we founded our organization Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness (ECCA) 29 years ago. With thousands of children being deprived of quality education and safe health in Nepal, it was important to accelerate school development together with conservation when we first started our journey in the path of better conservation and livelihood. Children, education and schools became our topmost priorities along with environment conservation strategies.

Our aim lied in creating sustainable learning environment for maximum children in rural areas. Our initiation ofSchool Environment Improvement Program took shape as the work proceeded.

The campaign Support A Child – Help Child Go To School & Study was linked with the School Environment Improvement Program, to motivate students to come to school. Needy students were provided scholarship materials and we trained young people so that they could help school children form nature clubs within their school. We thought everything was going well. Students, especially nature clubs, were trained on different environmental, WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) and developmental issues. With those clubs regularly approaching communities for awareness programs, we thought the cycle of sharing knowledge – from experts to the youths to school children and finally the communities – was unending. The number of school attendees was increasing in our project schools. Nature clubs had become the strength of the villages we worked in. However, after some time, we felt that something was lacking.

Nature club members were graduating every year. Even with regular programs for new members of the club, it was getting difficult to boost newer children to remain active in the club. The earthquake further dispersed the strength of children and our effort of sustainability of school environment improvement fell to lower level. As we conducted support programs for students and teachers, we discovered that we had yet to approach larger community of school stakeholders for sustainability of our school environment improvement program.

All the schools had School Management Committee (SMC). But, Parents Teachers Association (PTA) was lacking. We helped to establish PTA in many schools and conducted trainings for both the stakeholders (SMC and PTA)and saw to it that they held a common voice for progressive development of children. Approaching government officials related to education made us realize that they were even more influential. Soon, we had all the stakeholders making a joint effort for school development.

Today, we are happy to say that our effort for school environment improvement has paved a new path for effectiveness and sustainability. We have on site motivating agents of stakeholders, who motivate nature clubs and students, saying that their actions were important and they could help change their community.

Involving all the stakeholders in school environment improvement programs has, in fact, become part of the key to sustainable school environment improvement.

Thank you everyone for trusting us and supporting our organization to create impactful effort in education and conservation.

Beautification of school compound

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Aug 22, 2016
Educational materials support for 14 schools in Dolakha

By Upama Tamla (Rai) | Media Associate

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