19 results for author: Anne Hines

Earthbag Building Workshops for Nepali Builders

Colorado Nepal Alliance sponsored ten local builders to attend two separate earthbag building training events in Kathmandu and Sindhupalchowk District in early October. The builders were all from the highly affected districts of Dhading and Nuwakot. Classroom training The first workshop was a seminar taught by Owen Geiger, the world’s foremost builder of earthbag buildings. CNA has long had an interest in this building technology, since it uses local soil and can be more cost effective than other building techniques. It's also proven to be an extremely safe building technique for some earthquake-prone areas. In Nepal, we know of ...

First Post-Quake Visit to Darkha, Nepal

Visit to Darkha and Kuri, September 21 - 24, 2015 Colorado Nepal Alliance (CNA) has returned from a site visit to Darkha, a village in the Dhading District of Nepal. They were accompanied by Ajay Magar, an architect with Nepal-based Landmark Architectural Design Studio, and Sailendra Shrestha, a local building contractor. The primary purpose of the visit was to assess the damage at the Shree Ganesh Kunda Higher Secondary School, a school in Darkha that CNA has committed to help rebuild. Secondary School Rebuilding The earthquakes in April and May of 2015 destroyed nearly all of the buildings on the school's campus. The lone exception was ...

On the Ground in Nepal: Rebuilding a Secondary School

Greetings to our supporters and friends! I am writing to you from Kathmandu, Nepal.  Cont...

Getting Supplies to Darkha, Nepal

HOW WE’RE GETTING SUPPLIES TO DARKHA, NEPAL, AND HOW YOU CAN HELP   Darkha is only 12.5 miles from the quake epicenter. Every building suffered significant damage, and many collapsed entirely. Families are sheltering in fields with minimal protection from the weather. The monsoon rains will arrive in early June. Colorado Nepal Alliance's in-country coordinator, Gopal Tamang, arrived safely in Kathmandu on Thursday. "The people are crying everywhere," reports Gopal. Sixty-eight deaths have been confirmed, although bodies are still being recovered. Many of the injured were carried by hand to Dhading Besi, a city that takes six to eight ...

Darkha Nepal Disaster Relief

%CODE_relief% The 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on Saturday has literally hit too close to home. The classroom we've been building, the children for whom we bought school uniforms, the region in which we've been doing a medical capacity survey, and have distributed nearly 1,000 pairs of shoes and boots: It's only 18 miles from the quake epicenter. We have not been in direct contact with anyone living in Darkha. [Update 4/30: We made contact with our Nepal Projects Coordinator who was in Darkha when the quake hit.]  We've received information that most buildings have collapsed, there are many fatalities, and there has been no ...

Teacher Salaries

Good hearted donors have built two sets of classrooms at schools in Darkha, Nepal.  However, providing teaching space is just one part of the puzzle.  Teachers must also be hired to educate the students that will inhabit the classroom. In Nepal, teachers are government employees.  However, the government is not responsive in a timely manner when a village has an increase in population and more children will be attending school.  Generally, the approach is for the village to build extra classrooms, hire their own teachers, and then petition the government to pay for the teachers.  The process can take years. In September 2014, we visited a ...

Food for Thought

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

School Uniforms Delivered to Darkha

In mid-December 2014, all 71 students at Shree Chandra Devi Primary School in Darkha (Dhading District, Nepal) received new school uniforms. Many children at this school are members of the lowest caste, and their families struggled to provide school uniforms, which are mandatory in Nepal.  Thank you to all of the Gift of Education donors who made this possible!    

What is a school?

Good hearted donors have built two sets of classrooms at schools in Darkha, Nepal.  However, providing teaching space is just one part of the puzzle.  Teachers must also be hired to educate the students that will inhabit the classroom. In Nepal, teachers are government employees.  However, the government is not responsive in a timely manner when a village has an increase in population and more children will be attending school.  Generally, the approach is for the village to build extra classrooms, hire their own teachers, and then petition the government to pay for the teachers.  The process can take years.