VOTE for TWO CLASSROOMS in a POOR Rural Area of NEPAL
Hi Everyone,
Please give just a few minutes of your time and vote to help make “the dream come true” for a school in a poor rural area of Nepal.
Shree Mahakali Secondary School in the Kavre District has applied to NAFA (Nepal Australia Friendship Association (Qld) Inc) for funding to build TWO Grade 9 classrooms and I need your kind support to win a $5,000 GRANT from Sunsuper Superannuation Fund to make these classrooms no longer a dream … but a reality for its 23 teachers and 500 students! (Shree Mahakali currently only has facilities to Grade 8).
Shree Mahakali Secondary School is very special to me as I have met many of the children who WILL, DO and HAVE attend/ed this school in my trips to Nepal in the past couple of years. The children who attend Shree Deuper Primary School, in a neighbouring village, will eventually attend Shree Mahakali to further their education past Grade 5. Last year NAFA funded a water tap for, Shree Deuper and I have privately raised money for this school (last year the funds were used to purchase Room to Read library books, a cupboard, to house these books, and sporting equipment).
We are hoping to visit Shree Mahakali Secondary School in November this year as well as Shree Deuper Primary School.
We are hoping to visit Shree Mahakali Secondary School in November this year as well as Shree Deuper Primary School.
Voting is quick and easy so please click on the link above.
Voting starts on 1st July and finishes on 31st July.
YOUR VOTE is VERY important, so please give just a few minutes of your time J
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Thanks everyone for your continued support … it is always very much appreciated by NAFA and myself.
Kind regards,
Kylie Gilbert
Supporter of NAFA and Nepal
www.nafa.org.au
“HELP Build TWO Classrooms in RURAL NEPAL”
My dream is to help make the dream of the 23 teachers and 500 students of Shree Mahakali Secondary School, in a poor rural area of Nepal, come true! - to build two classrooms and provide a learning environment for Grade 9 students.
Shree Mahakali School operates with many challenges; it receives very little Government funding and the students who attend are from very poor farming families. The school currently only has facilities to Grade 8; so a $5,000 grant will not only provide two Grade 9 classrooms, which will allow the children to have continuity in their most important schooling years, but will also save the students walking time to another school further away. Majority of these students now walk over 2 hours a day to attend Shree Mahakali School; but they do it happily and willingly in every season, as they love learning.
The teachers of this school are very passionate and they have a vision; to create a model school by providing quality education and support to their students (eventually up to Grade 10, the last and most important year for students before College), training for teachers, and new technology for children living in this poor rural area who would normally not have access to education. The school is very forward thinking in that they have an ECO club, scouts group, library, small computer room and nursery. The teachers are dedicated and work hard to bring these poor rural students up to the same standard as city students, who have many more opportunities.
I truly admire these teachers as I know how difficult it is for Nepalese children to receive an education. My dream is to help support these teachers in their vision to give these children a quality education, and as a result, a brighter future!!
The $5,000 grant would be donated to the Nepal Australia Friendship Association (Qld) Inc (NAFA). It would be spent on materials and skilled labour to build the two classrooms while the community would donate the many hours of unskilled labour. NAFA (21 years strong), a very dedicated group of people, tirelessly raises funds to assist remote communites in Nepal in the areas of health, education and water infrastructure. NAFA members visited Shree Mahakali school in early 2011 and would return later this year to monitor the building of the two classrooms.
