If you want to express it with the words of a sports reporter you could say: “Slowly colours are added to the game!” which is happening in our school buildings at Sindhupalchok-district or rather our children´s house in Lubhu.
After the end of the Dashain festival which lasted two weeks and where every work was stopped work is starting again. The school buildings of Sangachok and Sukute which have been repaired by now receive their exterior and indoor painting. The school building of Sangachok which has been a temporary solution is shining white now. The primary school of Sukute on the other hand is painted completely different in yellow which is something one has to get used to in the future.
The Bavarian white-blue of the schools which had been built by us soon belongs to the past. The government Nepal has decided to paint all school buildings in the same colours nationwide with red roofs, white colour indoors, dark red doors and light yellow exterior painting. Inevitably the question comes up if the government doesn’t have any more important things to decide? Due to our main focus on education of the children in appropriate buildings we can surely live with the newly dictated colour concepts.
Also at the Michl Dacher School in Kadambas which collapsed because of the earth quake only a few days after its 20 year anniversary the first steps of reconstruction work have started by now. Lorries brought construction steel, sand and cement. The time schedule is delayed due to the monsoon which lasted long this year. It is going to take a while until the painting can begin. Our first school is emerging again – we are happy!
