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September - December 2009
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Chatturale Village, Nuwakot, Nepal
Brahmayani School is situated in the small village of Chatturali, 3 hours northwest of Kathmandu. It is accessed by road to Ranipauwa from where it is a motorbike ride or walk along a track down to the school, located near the foot of the valley. Children come from nearly an hour away to go to the school.

MSH Nepal first became aware of Brahmayani School in February 2009 when a MSH member was approached by someone from Chatturali village. They felt that the school needed help to tackle the poor attendance and bad state of repairs of the schools’ infrastructure. Shree Brahmayani School is a government school, however, government funding offers very little in comparison to what the school actually needs.

Project work
- Construction of two separate toilet block for boys and girls
- Provision of safe drinking water and storage tank for sanitation
- Provision of basic sports equipments
- Small renovation of classrooms

Benefits:

A new separate toilet block for boys and girls has been built just below the classrooms. There is now a tap and running water. The toilets are new and clean.

A new dedicated water tank has been installed that supplies the school only, this means that the village and school now have separate supplies ensuring that the school has a constant water supply for the children to have clean drinking water available whenever they are thirsty.

The floors were in a dangerous state of repair. These have been patched up and are now level, smooth and safe for the children and teachers to walk on with greatly decreased risk of accidents.
The school has few resources. There are hardly any books for the children to read and sports equipment for the children to play with. Mysmallhelp provided the school with some of these necessary resources. The headmaster will explain to the children how to look after these resources to ensure that both they and future students can fully benefit from them.


Marybert School and Orphanage

Project work
- Provision of Bio-gas plant
- Child sponsorship

Benefits:
Biogas is a clean energy source that can be used for heating applications, electricity generation or as a fuel. Biogas is primarily composed of methane (CH4), produced through anaerobic digestion of organic material.

Biogas collection and management systems capture the harmful greenhouse gases that would otherwise be vented directly into the atmosphere. Processing and injecting biogas into the pipeline system results in the additional benefits of replacing traditionally sourced natural gas and allowing the biogas to be stored until it is needed.

This project has now transformed the unused school waste into valuable renewable thermal energy; thereby lowering the use of non-renewable energy within the school community. It has helped to manage kitchen and toilet waste as a resource providing a good example of turning waste as a into wealth.

• It has also helped to maintain a clean and hygienic environment by utilizing the waste at source.
• It has greatly reduced the cost of the cooking gas which was previously used, costing around £30 per month. Now the waste from the kitchen goes directly to the biogas plant and is converted to renewable energy.
 
Child sponsorship


Sunita Majhi

BEFORE
Sunita Majhi was 7 years old when she was brought to Marybert Orphanage in Kathmandu by her Uncle in 2007. Her mother is not able to walk and Sunita has no father as she was a product of rape. Sunita was so unhappy and scared when she first arrived at Marybert that she cried for 24 hours. She was very shy and found it difficult to make friends with the other children. Sunita also found it difficult to understand Nepali as this was not the language of her village.

AFTER
Today, Sunita is a different little girl. She has many friends and smiles so much of the time. She loves being at the Orphanage and studies very hard coming first in her class in her examinations. One day, she would like to become a successful woman so that she can look after her mother.

JINNY DAVIES
Jinny Davies from UK volunteered with Mysmallhelp Nepal from 1st November to 12th November 2009. During her stay, she was able to understand how the Marybert school runs. She took a couple of classes and taught different songs which were truly enjoyed by the children.

Computer Project at Marybert Orphanage
Marybert School is always looking to improve educational standards and now with the help of Knightsbridge School in London and Mysmallhelp a desktop computer set, printer, scanner, webcam, headphone, computer table and internet access is to be provided. Mysmallhelp Nepal will appoint a volunteer computer teacher to teach the orphan children of Marybert School. The main objective of this project is to open up the communication channels between Knightsbridge School Junior children and Marybert orphans. Apart from communicating with the pupils at Knightsbridge School, Marybert orphans will be learning how to use a computer. This project will be commencing in the first week of February 2010.


Mysmallhelp would like to thank all our members, supporters, and donors for all their support in 2009 and looks forward to working together in 2010.

For more information and queries please email us at: info@mysmallhelp.org
UK Registered Charity No 1123830
Nepal Registered Charity No 2656/381/562
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