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 by the principal we were then taken on a tour of both parts of the school. The vice principal told us that it was still difficult to operate across the street and cited the example of having to take a projector and screen equipment across the road to take certain classes. The school now has a proper kitchen to prepare tiffin which it didn’t last year, operating in difficult conditions, although it only has one member of staff to prepare all the meals for the whole school. We then had a meeting in the principal’s office to discuss how she wanted to progress the school. We were presented with their project proposals for a maths lab and music class. This would increase the extra curricular activities available and make the school more attractive to new pupils.
We then went directly to visit our second new school, Guheswori Bal Shikshs Secondary School. This school is in a very deprived area and although it has up to 200 pupils we were told that perhaps only up to 130 are in attendance at any one time. It is a new building in that it is post earthquake of 2015 but it is only really the facade that looks modern. We were shown around the school by the English teacher as the principal did not speak much English and after visiting all the classrooms he took us to their large room space where he had arranged for us to have a short presentation Also attended by around a dozen students. This was to thank us for our contribution to running a breakfast club at the school leading on to their proposal for more breakfast club and a music class. Their written proposal is to be forwarded on to us shortly. We left the school at breaktime through a crowd of children playing basketball and running around their small yard.