Jwala Primary School - a call for rehabilitation and reconstruction.

Description

Jwala Primary School, Babiya Gaun, Devichaur, Lalitpur, Nepal is situated at the end of lalitpur district of Nepal. It was established on January 23rd, 1961 and registered with the District Education Office,Kathmandu. The school has 45 students of age 4 to 11 years’ old and follows HSEB as its curriculum of academic study. They have a single floor 4 roomed school building based on a 2759.4 sq. ft. (8 anna 1 Paisa). The building occupies 30 by 60 ft of the total space. This primary school has class nursery to class five.
Although the school is very old, It is a sad fact that they follow a practice of multi class system, i.e. grade nursery and grade 1st students study in the same class simultaneously due to lack of space . Similarly, grade 2nd students and grade 3rd students, and grade 4th students and grade 5th students study together. There is a single teacher teaching these two levels of students with split hour of the class period, i.e. 22 minutes per each grade of student in a 45 minute period.
After the earthquake of 25th April 2015, the school suffered serious damage and their one and only study building, built in 2009 by the permission of district education office and now has been marked unsafe by the inspecting officials. Although the building is made of concrete, almost all of the inner walls of the building has cracks and looks vulnerable. Similarly the roof which is made up of steel and iron support has created cracks on the wall at the joint. The roof could fall anytime.
Now the government has asked the schools to reopen and conduct classes. The school principal, mr. Badri Prasad exclaims that the faculties are also scared to go inside the school, leave alone the kids. He shows concern about how they could conduct classes now, when the situation is worsened.
Following this talk with Mr. Badri, we have come to know that the school requires immediate rehabilitation by providing temporary shelters where the classes could go on. We also feel an urgent need to reconstruct a two storey or more, earthquake resistant buildings so that the students have individual classes for every grade. The school lacks space and that has to be looked after by the government to relocate or to buy more lands for recreational activities of the students.
On our part, we have planned to help in rehabilitation and reconstruction of the entire school. We have planned to divide the project into two phase. Phase 1 is rehabilitation where we will construction tented classrooms; we will also look after the nutrition of students. In the second phase, we will construct the new school building using the sustainable resources and finally will hand over the school building to the school authorities.
I would be very humbled and joyful if you could help us in this project. I have hereby attached few photos of the school. Thank you.
Gaurav Devkota
Yes I Will Foundation
Our urgent requirements:
At Home:
• Tent
• Slippers
• Shoes
• Gum Boots
• Vest and Underwear
• Handkerchief
• Socks
• Track Suit
• Tooth brush and Paste
• Towel
• Comb
• Soap
• Hair Oil
• Suns cream

At School:
• School Bag
• Pencil
• Pen
• Note Books
• Books
• Geometry Box
• Color Pencils
• Color and Brush
• Drawing books and Pads
• Water Bottle
• Glucose D
• Tiffin Box
• Toys:
o Football
o Sea Saw
o Teddy Bears
o Toy Car
o Puzzle Games
o Ludo etc
Who is doing what in this District