Welcome to Another Brick in Nepal
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A new initiative to provide purpose built premises for a women’s safe house in Khandbari has been officially adopted as ABIN’s sixth project in Nepal. Early planning work is under way, and land has been donated.
You can read more about the safe house project in the latest newsletter from Changing Lives Nepal, who run the safe house. Click here to open the newsletter in a new tab.
More information can be found on the project page and then on the blog as work gets under way.
This video includes footage shot recently in Nepal, and an interview about the project with Rob Tournour:
Kharang Sharada School project underway
Another Brick in Nepal confirmed our 5th project at our end of year fundraiser last year, and construction is now progressing well.
Kharang Sharada School has 650 students, split 50/50 between girls and boys. The school is located in a growing community close to the town of Chainpur, in the same region as our last 3 schools. The school currently has around 60 students per classroom which is not ideal, the additional rooms will enable them to reduce this number to around 48 per room. In June 2022 a single storey 4 classroom building was partially completed, no finishing or plastering was done. ABIN’s scope is to add a second floor of 4 additional classrooms, also to add a roof top walk out level, and to finish and plaster all levels including windows, doors, paint and railings. This will complete the 8 room building for the school. Construction started in early May with an anticipated completion in the fall of 2023.
Thank you for your ongoing support of Another Brick in Nepal, it is thanks to you we will be completing our 5th school this year!
We are sharing pictures and information as the project progresses on our blog.
Mahendra School project completed
To see all the updates on the building work on our 4th project as it progressed –click here
Background and mission
In 2015 two major earthquakes struck Nepal, killing 9,000 people and destroying over 900,000 homes. Along with homes, 5000 schools were destroyed and many more damaged in this terrible catastrophe. In rural areas, government help is limited and many small villages have no capacity to rebuild.
Another Brick in Nepal (ABIN) was established to address this issue in a practical way. Our goal is to re-build schools in rural areas as we identify those most in need, not just those damaged in the quakes but any school facility which is unsafe and unsuitable for the students housed there. In 2017 we funded the re-building of our first school in the village of Aapchaur. This elementary school was built by locals, using locally supplied brick, meaning the money we had raised went back into the local economy. The school opened in January 2018.
We have also funded the replacement of two classrooms full of furniture for Yagyamati Secondary School in Kathmandu, after there were no funds remaining to furnish classrooms rebuilt by the government. We completed building our second school, Sharada Secondary School, in the Sankhuwasava district of Nepal. This school has over 450 students and their two-storey building had been deemed “unusable” post-earthquakes. ABIN raised $50,000 to help complete the re-build of this school. Sharada was completed in August 2020.
Him School was our third re-building project. Him is in a very rural area and cannot always be accessed by road, due to the destructive monsoon season. We worked very closely with the local community who had managed to raise some funds themselves to repair their small school. ABIN was able to commence building in October 2019 and, despite the turmoil in 2020, we completed Him school in December 2020.
Our 4th school was completed in 2023. The Mahendra School for Deaf Children in Kandbhari, was a special project. The school offers tuition and board to all the deaf children of the region, some living many hours from the village. We rebuilt a school building, dormitory, kitchen and bathroom facilities for the students. Students previously had to share beds, and live in poor conditions in a building badly damaged in the quakes.
We are now constructing our 5th school – Kharang Sharada, where we are completing a school building by adding a second floor of additional classrooms. Every penny we raise goes to Nepal to help the children receive the education they deserve in safe, suitable conditions. If you would like to support us in this mission please donate below (tax receipts available for all Canadian donations).