Project Proposal for Kalidevi Secondary School

Lamatar, VDC 9, Nepal

Ek Pahila Foundation is a non-prot organization established in France and aims at supporting rural
government schools in Nepal with needed educational infrastructure, resources and sustainable solutions
for the long term.
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Ek Pahila Nepal
Summary
The output of the project will be helping the school build its infrastructure and foster a collaborative environment through which the school and the
village community members can work together for their mutual benets and promote the socio-economic development in the region. Moreover, the
project also hopes to help the local community realize that the school is an important long-term asset for the village and that a collaborative approach to
maintain the school and its infrastructure will ensure a better future for the students of Kali Devi Secondary School.
1.Introduction
1.1 Key information about the school
Shree Kali Devi Lower Secondary School is a government funded community school situated in Lamatar village, approximately 19KM east of
Lalitpur. The village has a population of nearly 2000 and a large majority of them are ethnic Tamangs who are categorized amongst the very socially
deprived and marginalized communities of Nepal. This village is not as remote unlike other distant villages of Nepal, which lack in basic
infrastructure such as roads and telecommunication but poverty, illiteracy and lack of awareness remain the main causes for their backwardness. In
addition, complex social customs and traditions, hilly terrain and low yield due to poor quality soil are other citable reasons for the underdevelopment
of the Tamang community of this village.
Kali Devi School is perched on a hill just below the Lakurey Bhyangang, which is at a height of nearly 7000ft overlooking Kathmandu valley and
covers an area of nearly 0.25 acre (2 ropanis) terraced land. It is anked by Basuki River at the southern corner and the dusty road linking Panauti
with Lalitpur runs on the upper southern side of the school.
Initially, the school was established as a pre-primary school in 1988 with just 2 small rooms and offered education up to grade 2. At present, it has
facilities to accommodate up to grade 9 and will follow the national standard School Leaving Certicate (S.L.C.) curriculum for grade 10 next year.
The school is named after the famous Hindu goddess Kali, the goddess of destruction of evils, and there is a small shrine dedicated to her about 300
Meters east of the school. At present the school has a capacity of 174 students of which 85 are female students and 89 are males out of which almost
all of them are Tamangs except two Bistas from Chettri casts. The school is run by a headmaster and three primary level teachers provided by the
government. Besides, the school receives an annual government fund of approximately Rs 478000 to meet its daily operation cost. The amount
received is spent on books, stationary, maintenance of the school, scholarship, allowance for the underprivileged class and uniform, leaving all
remaining expenditure to be managed by the community.
Table 1: Number of students by gender and by grade
Class No of students Female Male
Kindergarten 34 17 17
Grade 1 15 7 8
Grade 2 14 5 9
Grade 3 15 5 10
Grade 4 14 9 5
Grade 5 18 4 14
Grade 6 15 7 8
Grade 7 16 6 10
Grade 8 12 7 5
Grade 9 21 7 14
Total 174
1.2 The issue
Since many years, the school has been facing severe problems due to inadequate funds and any external help from other sources. Paying the
salary of seven additional private teachers and meeting the monthly expenses of the school always remain a grueling challenge to the school. The
school management committee appointed these private teachers who are working on a very low pay scale. The community has no independent
fund of its own and has to rely totally on donations from locals, grant from the Lalitpur district and Lamatar village development committee and
the amount they receive is not sufcient to meet the monthly expenses of the school. Moreover, this year the school did not receive any nancial
help from them due to insufcient government budget. Besides, the school has other problems too: it does not even have a tank to store drinking
water, lack of desk and benches for grade 8 & 9, a library, a computer lab and the list is long. Due to nancial scarcity and any external help, the
school is facing a lot of hardship in maintaining and refurbishing its existing infrastructure. In spite of all these numerous complex problems, the
school community is very eager to develop their school in all possible ways to provide a better learning environment to their students in order to
meet the academic challenges of the 21
st
century.
2. Background
Ek Pahila Foundation is interested to help Kali Devi School by providing nancial, logistic
and technical assistance to meet its immediate, medium term and long term goals to improve its
present infrastructure of the school, which is currently in a dilapidated and deteriorating
condition. The school community and Ek Pahila Foundation will cooperate and coordinate with
each other during the implementation of the project to ensure a complete success in fullling its
objectives. In addition, Ek Pahila Foundation has also acquired valuable experience working for
more than a year with Devisthan Secondary School in Kavre district within the Tamang
community and is condent to establish a self-sustaining healthy and harmonious educational
environment at Kali Devi Secondary School.
3. Project Objective
Ek Pahila Foundation has categorized its program activities as follows:
3.1 Short term objective (within 4 months)
3.1.1. Improvement of water storage and supply:
The school has a regular clean water supply for only three hours, but due to lack of storage facility, the school is not able to collect and store
sufcient water for its daily need. Furthermore, there is no water supply in the existing bathrooms and as a result, they are lthy and unhygienic. In
order to overcome this problem two high-density plastic tanks of 1000 and 500 liters are essential. These tanks can store sufcient water for drinking
purpose and also supply water to the existing bathrooms.
3.1.2 Improvement of the Kindergarten classroom: restructuring and refurbishing
The current studying environment is undesirable for the children and has a lot of potential for improvement.
At the moment, there are 34 Tamang children in the kindergarten along with 2 female teachers. Without a
classroom of their own, they are forced to use half of the library room as their classroom. The children sit on
pieces of carpet put together on a dusty cement oor without proper insulation. The learning environment is
really beyond standard. Simple investments such as room partitions would make a big difference.
In addition, since Nepali language is not the mother tongue of the Tamang community, the children are
having difculty in properly learning the language. The lack of education materials makes it difcult for the
teachers to teach effectively, and the childrens learning is very limited to their classroom experience.
Providing interactive learning materials will be crucial in helping students learn the national language and
will allow teachers to teach in a more effective manner.
3.1.3 Cabinet for teachers
Besides many basic necessities, the school has no locker facility for the teachers to keep their books, les and other essential things safely and as a
result, they have to carry them to their homes every day which is causing great inconvenience to them. Providing a 12 compartment lockers to the
teachers would relieve them from this unnecessary hassle.
3.1.4 Retention wall
A retention wall of length 132 ft. x 10ft height x 3ft wide is needed to build very urgently in order to protect
the primary wing building from any possible damage from landslide during the current monsoon. There is a
quarry approximately 100 Meters north of the school, which has sufcient quantity of stones for the
construction. The wall will be built by stones inside gibbon wire mesh of each size 2meters x1 meter x
1meter and altogether 56 gibbon meshes are required to complete the wall. Alongside, the volunteer will
transport the stones from the quarry to the site and will also assist the masons during the entire construction
period. In addition, the wall will be covered by mud and different species of trees will also be planted for
additional strength and greenery.
3.1.5. Fishpond construction project
a. The concept
A long-term plan of this project is to generate additional income to the school and develop the concept of self-sustainability by utilizing its
existing surplus 0.13-acre (1 ropani) land through sh farming.
b. Implementation phase
In order to achieve this objective, one built-in- ponds of size 76 feet by 76 feet will be dug with voluntary labor from the school community. Ek
Pahila will provide all necessary support to materialize this project such as- plastic sheets for laying on the pond to protect from any water
seepage, 2000 sh nger links, sh feed for seven months and a shing net and any additional materials.
The school has an employee who works as a night guard and another employee, a female worker who works during the daytime to help the school
during the day (cleaning, washing and cooking). These two persons will be in charge of monitoring the shpond on a daily-basis.
3.2 Medium term objectives
3.2.1 Computers
The school has no computers till date and the computer teacher is not able to teach computer application course to grade 9 & 10 effectively in the
absence of computers. Ek Pahila Foundation aims to provide 3 sets of computers and a printer as technology is predominant to meet the challenges of
the 21st century.
3.2.2 Science laboratory
In absence of a basic science laboratory, the science teacher is unable to teach grade 9 and 10 students effectively with any practical demonstration
and experiments. Hence, establishing a fully equipped science lab would greatly help the students to acquire more practical knowledge of science and
as a result, the students will learn equally as others students from private schools.
3.3 Long term objectives
3.3.1. Construction of a new school building
1 the concept
The present building belonging to grade four to nine was built nearly 22 years ago and has
become too small to accommodate the increasing number of children. The classrooms are
often poorly ventilated and further, the galvanized steel roofs exacerbate this problem. The
height of the classrooms are quite low and due to space constrain, the classrooms are
congested and unhealthy.
c. Outcome
Quantitative
It is generally estimated that it requires seven months for a sh to gain an average weight 1.5 kg to be commercially viable to be sold in the nearest
market. A net prot of nearly Rs150, 000 could be made in the initial stage. The process will continue and within a year time, the school could
generate a yearly income of approximately Rs125000, which will help the school to meet some of its daily expenses.
Qualitative
Employment opportunities to the local farmers, who are in most cases the parents of the students, is also
another benet of this project and bring more unity for the parents to collaborate and work together.
d. The risks factor
Out of 2000 sh nger links, there is always a possibility of 20% death rate, which is a part of the
natural cycle. In spite of this loss, the prot generated form this project will still remain as a vital source
of income to the school.
e. Cyclical long-term outcome
Ek Pahila Foundation will start the rst sh production cycle and will give the responsibility
for others cycles to the school management committee and in future, this project could be an
eye-opener for the school community that could inspire to develop other self-sustaining
projects for the schools.
3.1.6 Desk and benches
There are only few desk and benches in grade eight and nine and some among them are very
old and beyond carpentry repair. Students are compelled to sit crammed together due to limited
furniture and face an awkward situation during class hours. Adding a set of 15 new desk and
benches to these classrooms will help the students for a better sitting arrangement and learn in
a better classroom environment.
4. Logistic and management
Short-term objective (within 3 months)
Accomplishments
targeted
Logistic and management Human resources involved
1 Improvement of water
storage and supply
Purchase and provide one High density plastic
1000lts water tank
Provide plumbing work and pipe fittings to connect
the water to the taps.
6 people
1 plumber working for a day
2 Kindergarten
reconstruction
Purchase insulation foam and carpet, educational
materials, stationaries, color pencils, musical
instruments,
Construction of the partition wall
1 person will be involved to purchase and transport
the goods to the school
On a contract basis
3 Cabinet for teachers Purchase and provide a teachers cabinet for the
teachers
One person will be involved to transport to the
school
4 Retention wall Purchase gibbon wire for the retention wall
Purchase of stones from village quarry for retention
wall
Purchase of cement for construction for the wall
from Lubhu town
Purchase of sand for construction from Lalitpur
Purchase of concrete
100 people will be involved for 10 days to
complete the entire retention wall
5 Fish farming Dig the surface for the pond
Purchase the plastic sheet for the pond, 1600 fish
finger links, fish feed for 7 months, net to cover
the fish pond
Purchase and provide fishing net for harvesting fish
3 and half feet depth to dig
50 people working for 3 days
6 Desks and benches Purchase and provide 15 sets of desk and benches
from Lubhu
1 person
Medium term objectives
Accomplishments targeted Logistic and management Human resources involved
1 Computers Purchase 3 computers and one printer, 4 tables 1 person for installation
2 Science laboratory Purchasing the equipment and all necessary
accessories for physics and chemistry in grade
8 and 9.
The science teacher- in- charge of organizing the
lab.
Long-term objectives
Accomplishments targeted Logistic and management Human resources involved
1 Construction of a new school
building
Purchasing raw materials which are not
available in the school area
A local contractor will be hired without labor
charge added since the labor service is on
voluntary basis.
2 Library Set-up Partnership with Room to Read 1 person
Implementation process details
An implementation team will be formed, in which, there will be four members from the School Management Committee (Volunteer),
2 members from the Construction Committee and the project director from Ek Pahila Foundation.
Further, Ek Pahila will also supervise and monitor during the execution of the project. Along with this, a resource person from the
Department of Education will also be involved for his timely suggestions and guidance.
4. Budget and project coordination cost
1argeted budget
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1argeted budget
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1argeted budget
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