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Nepal Earthquake 2015. On 25 April 2015, 9,000 people were killed and over 23,000 injured when an earthquake of a magnitude of 7.8 hit Nepal. Flattening houses and villages it left hundreds of thousands of the people of Nepal homeless. Partners of CHANCE for NEPAL were able to bring help – support and supplies – […]
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‘We had taken some candies and treats for children and… shared amongst the adults also, and the adults acted like children when receiving it.’ Frontline relief work: the 2015 Earthquakes in Nepal destroyed homes and schools, livelihoods and lives. Here is a first-hand report by Mr Kinley D Lama, the Headmaster of Pegasus English School,
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“Our work was stopped by a display of nature’s force so strong that Kathmandu is no longer the same city we knew before… We are handling the situation to our best effort, coordinating staff, volunteers, food and water. During the nights, everybody is staying at the dog centre or sleeping outside in the fields for
Earthquake struck as the anti rabies vaccination programme was underway! Read More »
Through SHENPEN (their partner on the ground), CHANCE funds skills training organised by the Women’s Co-operative Society (WCS) in Nepal. Learning vegetable farming skills with WCS enables women to support themselves, their family and their community and also to fund their children’s education and improve life for the next generation. In the Tamang Community in
GMIN organises Teacher Training Workshops in remote areas. In the summer of 2016, 19 teachers (targeted from Nursery to Grade 3 in English) attended a five-day Teacher Training Course at Babiyachour, Surkhet in the Dang region. Teachers from the local village schools who attended the course stayed on site and learned motivational skills. The workshops
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WEGAIN ZONE is an eco-friendly site built mostly using mud, bamboo, bottles and tyres. WEGAIN ZONE provides living space to former streetchildren and trains them in a skill so that they can sustain themselves in future. WEGAIN works with the street children in the Boudhanath area of Kathmandu. They offer counselling, and take children found on
PAPA’S CHILDREN’s HOME was founded by Lalit Shahi for 24 children aged between 6 and 16. Many of the children at Papa’s have been there since Lalit started the home in 2011: they may have no one else to look after them, perhaps they are orphans, or maybe their parents live in remote areas and
CHANCE for NEPAL’s main education projects take place in four schools: TRIPLE GEM SCHOOL – PEGASUS ENGLISH SCHOOL – SHANGRI-LA SCHOOL all which are in Kathmandu, and at SHREE SECONDARY SCHOOL in Chitwan, 120k south of Kathmandu. CHANCE for NEPAL will continue to monitor improvements in children’s early learning. Because parents and the children themselves
As well as funding schooling directly, CHANCE for NEPAL’s other EDUCATION projects include providing milk for pupils in the lower school at Triple Gem School and a ‘Tiffin’ meal (school lunch) for the youngest students at Shree Secondary School in Chitwan. Many children walk long distances in their journey to and from school. A nutritional
Funds from CHANCE for NEPAL have provided 28 computers and screens at Pegasus English School and Triple Gem School. At Pegasus English School which was damaged in the 2015 earthquake CHANCE has provided funds to build a new wing which contains two new classrooms: one a computer lab; the other an all-purpose classroom with added
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