Today we visited our last and seventh school of this visit, Shree Lubhoo School, approximately 45 mins drive out from the centre. It is a big school which now has 572 students, split 50:50 between boys and girls, and has significantly increased its students numbers since we were here last year. In the last year
We again had no school visit on Sunday so Kate and I took the opportunity to visit the Boudhanath Stupa, believed to be one of the biggest in the world. It is located around 7.5 km to the east of Kathmandu’s Durbar Square, occupying over 7,600 sq.metres and over 43 metres high. It was listed
It being the weekend we had no school visit today so Kate and I visited Bhaktapur which used to be the capital of Nepal till the 12th century. It has a number of impressive palaces and temples and Bhaktapur Durban Square is a designated World Heritage Site. It is also known for its crafts particularly
Today we visited Neel Barahi School, our largest, with around 1,200 pupils. When I came last year the school was undergoing “retrofitting” to make it more earthquake resilient. It was good to see that these works had been finished and the building now looks really good. The other good news was that the two temporary
This morning we set off to Nepal Adarsha School. The school has some 450 pupils all the way through from class 1 to sixth form. it is based on either side of a road. Last year when we visited there were building works taking place. These have now finished. After being met at the gates
Today we visited Shree Buddha School in Godawari Municipality about 45 minutes drive away. It is a big school with over 750 pupils and growing all the time. When we visited last year the principal, Prempati Joshi, had not long been appointed. He has certainly been busy in his first year ccntinuing to grow school