Educational Support
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With funding from our partner NYOF, FNC not only provides scholarships to children attending rural and urban schools and colleges, but also offers training for the teachers, teaching materials, and finances the building of school infrastructures.
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Model Community School in Dhading
Through funds raised by NYOF from donors at the Yokohama International School in Japan and NYOF’s own financial support, FNC has built a model community school in Sunaula Chowa, in Dhading District. The villagers donated their labor, and NYOF and FNC provided the necessary construction expertise and materials. It has a library and an excellent playground. Until the beginning of the school year in 2006, it ran classes for up to grade five, but the construction of several new classrooms there after has now allowed the school to accommodate up to grade eight.
FNC will not continue to support the school indefinitely, so we have asked the community to come up with a plan for sustainability. They are in the process of doing so – either by an agricultural undertaking or another project that will generate income for the school.
A total of 261 children are enrolled in school from kindergarten to Grade VII. Eighty-seven unprivileged children receive scholarships provided by FNC. Some children walk for two hours or longer just to come to this school.
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Improving classrooms
School infrastructure in almost all village schools in Nepal is inadequate. Children may sit outside, on the bare ground because of the lack of classroom space. Even where there are inside classrooms, the furniture is primitive and does not promote a good learning atmosphere. To meet this challenge, with funding from NYOF, FNC has been built additional classrooms, especially in the Dang District, where, as a result of our Indentured Daughters Program, almost three thousand young girls have been freed from servitude and returned home to attend school. As a result, the overcrowding of some of the schools reached crisis proportions. We have constructed 40 additional classrooms in the Dang area to resolve this problem.