Nepal
- PAHAD's own website
- The Pahad Association (Nepalese Foundation) - Overview
- Budhanilkantha School
- Pestalozzi Centre Budhanilkantha School
- Girls Hostel, Budhanilkantha School, Nepal
- Shri Sita Ram School, Far West Nepal
- Nepal News
PAHAD's own website:
http://www.geocities.com/pahad2000np/
The Nepalese Foundation (PAHAD) - Overview
The Nepalese have set up the Pestalozzi Association Helping Advance Development (or PAHAD, which means hill in Nepalese). Based in Kathmandu, it sponsors 16 scholars.
The aims of the Association are "to help educationally deserving children from deprived family backgrounds to obtain a secondary education, to promote the ideals of the Pestalozzi Children's Village Trust and to strengthen the connection between the Pestalozzi alumni".
Pahad was registered in April 2000, as a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Kathmandu. Membership subscription is its main income.
Pestalozzi Village graduate Ghanashyam Ranjitkar, who worked as the Pestalozzi Overseas Asia Co-ordinator until September 2001, was a founding member of the Foundation. Many Pestalozzi alimni and current scholars are members.
For more information on the Nepal Pestalozzi Association, please contact Hikmat Khadkha or Bhaba Bahadur Thami at pahad2000np @ yahoo.com.
News & Activities
Budhanilkantha School
Budhanilkantha School educates 34 POCT scholars.
Pestalozzi scholars and trustee meet at school.
The school kitchen prepares fresh baked bread daily.
We have also sponsored the Pestalozzi Centre Budhanilkantha School, which offers a range of vocational training facilities.
Pestalozzi Centre Budhanilkantha School, Kathmandu, Nepal
The Pestalozzi Centre was set up in Budhanilkantha School in 1996 with assistance from POCT to provide hands-on experience for the students. The Centre covers an area of 60 'ropanis' (3 hectares of land) in the school compound. Mr. DK Shrestha, the Agriculture teacher, manages the centre and has been appointed as the Pestalozzi Centre Manager.
The Centre achieved self-sufficiency in early 2003!
The Pestalozzi Centre is used by almost all the children in the school, as a mini-farm growing vegetables and plants. Mushroom growing and a micro-hydro plant for educational purposes are in full swing at the Centre.
The workforce at the Centre is provided by the students and farm workers are also hired occasionally. The students are involved as part of the their vocational activities and also work on their house plots that have been allocated for each hostel of the school. A student committee also helps run the centre.
A dance by scholars to honour a visit by
His Majesty the late King Birendra of Nepal to The Centre.
Crops:
The centre produces rice, mushrooms, tomatoes and other vegetables, which are sold to raise funds for the Centre. The customers are the school kitchen, parents of students and the local market.
Horticultural units at PCBS.
The centre has a low-cost green house and a mushroom hut, to increase production of mushrooms, since they are very marketable.
The potato seed production project has been commendable. The National Agricultural Research Centre (NARC) has been collaborating with the centre for the extensive cultivation of potato seeds, which is going to be a considerable source of income.
Two types of medicinal plants are grown with plants supplied by the Dabur Nepal Pvt Ltd. They also purchase the entire harvested plant. One of these is hypercium perforatum, which is beneficial for patients who have high blood pressure or depression. A single plant can be harvested for 3-4 years.
Walking the farm at PCBS.
Compost project:
The food waste from the school kitchen and the leaves are utilised by the centre to make compost.
Hydro-power:
The centre has a 200W micro-hydro plant for educational purposes. It is a fully operational plant. This was built with help from ITDG-Nepal. It is used to power the Centre's computer.
Pestalozzi vocational workshops:
The Vocational Workshop consists of a welding workshop, a carpentry workshop, a training hall, and an office for the Pestalozzi Centre Manager. Sewing classes for girls and carpentry classes for boys are now underway, and cooking classes began in 2003. The centre's 6 computers and Internet facility remain extremely busy throughout the week. POCT also has an office there.
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Girls Hostel, Budhanilkantha School, Nepal
We have sponsored a Nepalese hostel for 120 girls from 11 to 17 years old. Practical skills as well as the basic academic curriculum are taught.
Shri Sita Ram School, Far West Nepal
A Vocational Centre has been established at Shri Sita Ram school. The Vocational Centre offers training in vegetable production, sewing and knitting. Children are involved and learn skills which they can then disseminate in their home regions.
The project has been underway at the school since 1997, as a result of which:
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the hostels grow their own vegetables and are now self-sufficient in them
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an orchard has been created and many trees have been planted.
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Pestalozzi has funded a 2000 litre polythene tank and this has been installed. Excess water from the tank is used to irrigate the vegetable garden
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the activity centre is becoming an example of good practice in the area
A hostel for 40 girls is now being built here, part-funded by POCT .
Construction of a self-catering girls' hostel, was completed in August 2004. Funds were provided by POCT,the British Embassy in Nepal, and the rest was raised through local support and the school. The hostel provides accommodation and boarding facilities at a low cost for 40 girls from poor family backgrounds for the +2 years after grade 10. The design of the hostel is considered as a model for the area, and the Headmaster, and his team deserve praise for the work in completing its construction, in one of the areas of the country that is worst affected by conflict.