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January
- April 2009 |
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| Bhattedanda
School, Nepal |
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On February 10th
2009 MSH Nepal member, Raju visited Bhattedanda School to
donate school jumpers for all 44 children. Bhattedanda school
is located in Bhattedanda in the Lalitpur District, 26km south
of Kathmandu.
A summary of the school is as follows:
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44 children age 3 ½ to 12 years, Grades 1 to 3
• There are no toilets and no library
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small grass covered playground is very small and there is
no access path from the school.
• There are no games
or sports equipment.
 Eilidh Canney from UK
arrived in Nepal in mid November 2008. Before her arrival
in Nepal she had raised £270 in UK for MSH which was
used to provide school uniforms and jumpers to 44 children
in Bhattedanda School. Eilidh also helped MSH in filling
up the form of ICT (International Childcare Trust) for providing
us grant to renovate and build new buildings for Bhattedanda
School. She also enjoyed volunteering in Marybert School
and loved spending time with the children of the school
and the orphanage.
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Toilet
Building Project at Brahamayani School, Chatturale,
Nepal |
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MSH Nepal Members, Gopal
and Raju made a visit to Chaturale village and the Brahmayami
School in order to review help required.
The following was decided:
• Build 2 new
toilet blocks (boys and for girls)
• Provide
a water storage tank for drinking water
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Carry out small repairs to the building, for example
painting of walls
• Provide sports equipment
This project will start in 25 days
time
Shree Brahmayami School
Shree Brahmayami Primary School is run by the Government
who provide only 3 teachers for teaching grades 1
to 5. The school has no allocated support staff at
present and facilities are poor with two children
need to go to the toilet together, one for guarding
the door. 156 children are currently studying in the
school.
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Marybert
School, Nepal |
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Erin from the USA visited MSH
sponsored children at the school, distributing clothes
and shoes. Erin is a long term supporter of MSH
and it’s always fantastic to see the one to
one relationship she maintains with her sponsored
child, Dependra.
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From April 1st to 3rd,
Marybert School held its school sports days. Erin's
friend had donated the sports equipment to the School.
MSH provided prizes for the children which included
exercise books, coloring pencils and of course gold
silver and bronze medals!
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 The biogas project lead
by MSH member, Raju for installation at the Marybert
School has been approved by Sabina Thapa the schools
principal and MSH member. This will help the school
minimize fuel costs making funds available for the
children. The project will start when the funds are
released.
Why is bio-gas so important for the school?
Marybert orphanage has 24 orphans living and studying
at the moment. A significant amount of fuel (LGP gas
or cooking gas) is used to prepare food everyday.
Orphanage expenses are very high and therefore detrimental
to educational funds. Once biogas is installed at
the school, the gas produced can be stored and used
as a fuel for cooking allowing more funds to be available
purely for teaching all students. Nepals government
encourages renewable energy projects and may also
provide some of the materials which hopefully will
lower investment costs as well as assisting MSH in
managing the project.
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 Everest
School: Anita Gurung
MSH members visited Anita at Everest School, Baktapur.
Anita is doing well in her study but has decided to
move from the school accommodation and stay one of
our members friends house. Anita suffers from significant
headaches and it hoped that the move with help her
study in a more private, quiet environment. Anita
is currently studying at grade 9 with only grade ten
to follow and the SLC examinations.
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Anne
Macdonald
Anne from the UK visited the school whilst volunteering
for MSH for 10 days from 26th April to 6th May 2009.
Anne stayed at the School orphanage with the children
allowing her to get to know the children, the good
work of the school and to fully appreciate the conditions
in which they live. Anne helped to film for a short
MSH documentary, which will be used back in the UK
to help fundraise for MSH. |
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Volunteer
Report |
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| Latest
News |
| 17th
Feb 2009
Rabin
is back and his story by Amon thapa
Over the past year Rabin has suffered
a lot in the street and at his brother’s house.
According to him, as he left my house, he went to
Basantapur (the heart of Kathmdandu where we find
lots of tourist as well as street children) and from
there he went to Balaju Street Child Care Center where
he stayed for few months. |
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loving memory of Rahul
Rahul was brought to Mysmallhelp by
Gopal Koirala in April 07. Rahul was a dirty street
child like any other, smelling of urine wearing oversized
clothes and covered in cuts and bruises. Beyond the
smells and dirt his smile and cheeky eyes were crying
out for love. Mysmallhelp changed Rahul in to clean
clothes and presented him to Sabina at the Marybert
orphanage. Sabina agreed to take Rahul in to the orphanage
even though she wasn't used to dealing with street
children. Rahul had begged for Gopal to take him off
the streets and to find him a safe home. He had previously
ran away from home as his father used to beat him.
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Volunteer from New Zealand to support Mysmallhelp,
Nepal
Roberta Steel (Bobby), a Registered
Nurse with a specialty in the area of Quality Management,
from New Zealand is in MySmallHelp, Nepal to support
the Organization by writing a project report which
will be conducted soon in remote villages Chatturale,
Bhattedanda Village and Marybert School in Lalitpur.
She made a visit to MSH Nepal office, Marybert Orphanage
and also helped to prepare the MSH account of year
2008. |
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Mysmallhelp
UK has been working with a team of volunteers
at Leeds University to try and raise funds for
Mysmallhelp and East African Playgrounds by selling
Mysmallshop products on campus. The students sold
approximately £1650
worth of products in the first term and so far
Mysmallhelp has donated
£330 to the
East African playgrounds project.
Please do click
here to read more about the EAP project.
The group of student volunteers will be using
Mysmallhelp funds to help
build a playground in Uganda this summer.
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UK
Registered Charity No 1123830
Nepal Registered Charity No 2656/381/562 |
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