Education

UPDATE: Thursday, July 10, 2008

An education update is a little overdue. The Nepalese school year begins in April, the beginning of the calendar New Year in Nepal. Sadly, Nepal Orphans Home has lost control of Papa’s Trinity Academy due to the prevailing political climate of Nepal. Though we have lost our complete investment we are free of any encumbrance created by the school.

Others decided to take over the school, where NOH had given a completely free education to all the poor in the neighboring villages for two years, and last year to over half of its 350 students. The school has been turned into a business with high fees, and those who were supported by NOH have been turned away.

Because of this NOH has enrolled its 99 children and two other very poor children from Dhapasi into the Skylark School. We are very proud to have been accepted into Skylark, an English medium school of long running that consistently wins valley wide awards for academic excellence.

Nepal Orphans Home continues to support two schools in the hilly region of Nepal with a total of around 150 children between them. There we provide a hot lunch program, teachers, uniforms, and all the educational needs of the students.

The Skylark School is an expensive proposition, even after a very kind discount; but the intensive English-speaking-only curriculum makes the extra effort to pay for it worthwhile.

Papa’s House for girls in the upper corner of Dhapasi brought eight girls from our Papa’s House “Lawajuni” for Kamalari girls in Lamahi, Nepal to live in Dhapasi and attend Skylark. Upon doing this we rescued eight new girls to take their place. We also brought the little brother of one of our Kamalari girls to our boy’s home in lower Dhapasi. He and the others are shown here before the gates of the school. Our two Dhapasi Homes are now at capacity.

The Skylark School runs through class 10 this year; class 10 being the year students test out of school. The idea is currently being floated to have class 12 the new exit time from school. We intend to keep our children in this very excellent school now and into the future.

One of our volunteers at Children’s Day