+++++ 15 years Children's Home - celebration in Lhubu +++++ Chautara School for the Blind - A visit to the site ++++++ Deuter school grows ++++ Inauguration of the health post in Kadambas +++++

Education – A fundamental right for everybody

Unfortunately, this is not applicable to all children in Nepal. Despite the compulsory school attendance of eight years, not nearly all Nepalese children go to school regularly. Especially in rural areas, where it often takes children more than one hour to get to school and where children are needed as a workforce in agriculture, the compulsory school attendance is partially neglected.

In the Sindhupalchok district, about 80 km east of Kathmandu, we have at least been able to shorten the way to school and thus provide an incentive for pupils and parents to attend school regularly. This has contributed to a continuous increase in school enrolments in recent years. Since 1995, twelve additional schools for a total of about 4200 pupils have been established in the district.

In Gothatar and Chautara, near Kathmandu, two more big schools were inaugurated in 2010. The opening of the biggest school yet financed by the association Nepalhilfe Beilngries, in Dadikot, was?? on February 6th. (See map/projects.)

Acutally the buildings of the oldest primary school of Kathmandu, Shanti Nikunja School, were dismantled to build up a new school with 10 classes for app. 400 students. (see projects) In Chautara we are starting to build a Blind Hostel for blind students of the Sindhupalchok district to give them a chance for their future. It is located directly besides the Shree Bandevi Secondary School which was built from the Nepalhilfe Beilngries 2010. (see projects)