ORPHANAGE
SCHOOL IN NEPAL
During April, our education officer, Amy Harrison participated in an Aidcamps International project to build a school for a rural orphanage in Southern Nepal.
The infrastructure of the small four classroom building was completed
by local builders and the Aidcamp volunteers, worked over a six week
period to lay floors, plaster, paint and decorate the school building
and construct the toilet block. The building was successfully completed
on 16th April, when it was handed over to the local community leaders
in three hour ceremony. Situated in Rampur in the Chitwan district,
the school will provide education for children in the adjoining orphanage
and from the surrounding villages.
The
financial contributions which volunteers made to participate in the
project went directly to funding the construction of the school, which
will be managed by the local community and Aidcamps partner charity,
Rural Community Development Programme (RCDP).
‘This was an amazing project which I feel both honoured and
humbled to have had the opportunity to participate in. The warmth and
gratitude expressed by the orphans and local people was overwhelming.
It was great to be involved in a very ‘hands on’ built environment
project, which although modest, will have an immediate and lasting benefit
to a community which struggles with issues of poverty and political
unrest’.
Amy Harrison
How you can get involved:
If you are interested in participating in a similar project, visit the Aidcamps International website: www.aidcamps.org.uk, for details of similar projects in India, Sri Lanka and Cameroon.