Nepali Girls (rural)

Educating Mountain’s Girls

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An ongoing project to empower mountain’s girls

According to official data, percentage of primary school enrollment students is 97%. However, 45% of them dropped the school before completing their primary school. And high number of girls comes with along the data. Cultural traditions, an unsuitable schooling environment and financial problems are major reasons for it. It is rare that girls coming from poor and Dalit families in rural villages of Nepal had an education. Children, especially girls, have to help their parents in the field. Poor parents could not afford stationery materials, uniform, tuition fee, and school’s bag. These insist their children to leave the school. In the other hand growing population of girls as desire of boys arise problems to send all daughters in school for better education. Girls are treated as unwanted child.

KERE Kids Nepal (Gramin Balmaitri Sikshya Nepal) has been working hard to bring aquality education for mountain’s school since 2015 as well as gender equality via educating girls. We believe educating girls is preparing a better family. So, we basically focus on girls’ education.

KERE Kids Nepal officially launches a sponsorship program for 20 mountains girls in five schools in Myagdi district. Four needy girl students will be selected from each school. The school management committee and teachers will recommend the students. However, KERE Kids Nepal will make a final decision. Each student will be sponsored with required materials for a year. The materials are: school uniform and bag, exam fee, stationery materials (copies, pens, pencils,reference books et cetera). In an average, this would be equivalent to $100 per student per year. Investing in girls’ education will bring the highest return in individuals, families and communities.

Donate Now

KERE Kids Nepal will continue “Educating Mountain’s Girls” project and in each next year 20% of total students under sponsorship will be added and this goes on continually. This is an ongoing project, and KERE Kids Nepal requests all good heart people to support.We are choosing 20 girls from five different schools. They are following;

  • * Kranti Basic School
  • * Prava Secondary School
  • * Narchyang Lower Secondary School
  • * Nilgiri Basic School
  • * Gyan Prakash Secondary School

We request all the kind people to open their heart to sponsor those mountain girls who are waited for sponsoring.

Thank you

(Donations are collected in Australia by Donations Coordinator Elizabeth Ure with 100% of raised funds being sent to Kere Kids Nepal.)

children at the school

Warm Clothes Distribution Campaign

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Namaste Everyone,

As you all know that KERE KIDS NEPAL is working with public and government schools in Himalayan region. It belongs to Annapurna circuit. It is winter in Nepal and temperature of the region is almost like freezing at night and 3/4 degree at day time. In school, there is not any kind of heating system except sun in day time. Classrooms of the school’s are made by stone and cement. Because of concrete building, classrooms are always cold.

In another hand, parents of children are generally poor and work in farm. They hardly manage food for their children for twice a day. So it is very critical for kids to be warm and healthy. Children needs sweater, gloves, cap and socks but parents are not able to manage all those things. Due to the cold, every year 40 children are victimized by common cold and pneumonia among 100 of them.

KERE KIDS NEPAL has done day to day survey to find out how many children have assessed with warm clothes and we found only 5% have. It is because of poorness of family as well as being joint family. Parents can’t afford clothes for all children.

In school, students are always staying outside in ground to make them warm in sun. They can’t get proper lesson outside of classroom. It is hard to achieve educational goals without scientific classroom. Students can’t assess their regular phenomena in classroom which might be harmful for students. Teaching learning activities can be affected.

So, KERE KIDS NEPAL is looking donation for 50 students in Nilgiri Basic School, in first campaign. If you love to support our students to buy warm clothes, please kindly contact myself or donate on this website. Cap and sweater costs $10 and we are looking for 50 students.

Thank you again for your help. And Happy Christmas and New Year.

Contact details:
Raju Khadka
 rajukhadka966@gmail.com
+9779857623743
www.kerekidsnepal.org

“Successfully Completion Of Puppet Training for Teacher”

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KERE Kids Nepal has successfully accomplished Puppet Training for teachers on 17th,Nov-2018 in Shree Gyan Prakash Secondary School, Dana, Myagdi. In the training, altogether 25 teachers were participated from 10 schools and 2 ECD (Early Childhood Development) centers.

Expert trainers from Pahar Trust Nepal, Mrs. Chrissy Callaghan and Mrs. Susan Green from UK (Isle Of Man) run the training. Puppet teaching is mainly focused to develop imagination capacity of children to lead in creativity.Mrs. Chrissy Callaghan has generalized every single topic of puppet teaching method to make teachers more familiar and acknowledgement. She divided teachers in five groups to make assignment and write their own stories to perform according to the character of puppet.

Active participation of teachers were highly appreciated. They had actively taken part in group work and performed beautifully. They had written their own stories to teach students in classroom as an example. Teachers said that it is the new experience to them having such a scientific training to teach students through acting and learning by doing.

We provide 15 sets of puppet  for schools. After getting this training they can demonstrate it in their schools and expose the creative ability of students. We would like to big ‘thank you’ for Pahar Trust Nepal and Fair Connections Foundation UK for supporting to run this training. We also thankful to Dr. Sara Parker for her co-operation to run this training.  She organized fund for this training with the collaboration of Pahar Trust Nepal.

First-Aid Campaign

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KERE KIDS NEPAL has organized first-aid campaign in five schools. These schools are located in Himalayan region. Hospital and other kind of health facilities are not available in short time. By the research of organization, first-aid campaign is one of the fruitful programs and it helps to improve the health care of students and be ware about the sanitation too.

 

Due to the poverty and uneducated manner, parents are not eligible to provide nutritious food and health education to their children. That why, fever common cold, headache. Stomach paining are being normal here in school.  In another hand, geographical structure of area is different and lots of ups and down. Students come to school by walking like 1hour and more than hour. Lots of accidents also happen on the way to school.

 

Our kind volunteer Anneliese support us to buy first-aid tools and boxes in five schools. She is also skin specialist and good knowledge in hygiene and sanitation. She has visited schools and finalized herself to help schools with first-aid kit.

 

KERE KIDS NEPAL has collaborated with local health post to conduct this program. Local health assistance has spoken about first-aid and safety ideas. Students and teachers are happy to get first-aid kit in their schools.

KERE Kids Nepal - volunteers

Volunteer Program

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Introduction

Kere Kids Nepal is a non-profit organization. It aims to improve the educational outcomes for children in the rural villages of the Myagdi district, by providing better resources and support in our local government schools.

Our organisation is run by local teachers who donate many hours of time every month and their own money and resources to support as many children and schools as possible in the district.

We also rely on the kind support of overseas donations and volunteers to help us resource schools with basic school room resources which are taken for granted in western countries, like school books, school bags, colouring in pencils and access to the internet.

Kere Kids Nepal offers volunteer programs in the following areas:

  • Teaching English Language
  • Teaching Arts (music, dance, painting, drawing, photography and creativity)
  • Cultural exchange
  • Fundraising

About the area

KERE Kids Nepal is located in Bhurung, Tatopani village. This village is situated nearly 1500m from sea level. Tatopani is one of the famous places of Annapurna trekking. Tatopani is well-known about natural Hot Spring as well. It is in western part of Nepal. Volunteers can enjoy with beautiful scenery of Mountain, waterfall and greenery of hill.

How to get here

Volunteers can start their journey from Pokhara. They can get on local bus or any jeep up to Beni. It takes nearly three hours from Pokhara to Beni. Then after, they can again get on bus from Beni to Tatopani. It takes another two hours. Then after you will be in Tatopani at the office of KERE Kids Nepal.

Accommodation and food

Volunteers are able to stay in a guest house that we arrange for them, or are free to make their own arrangements.

The basic volunteer guesthouse we arrange costs US$10 per night per person and includes food & accommodation. It is traditional Nepali style and will provide breakfast, lunch and dinner. (Dal Bhat is Nepali traditional food and is usually served at lunch and dinner.) Wifi is included.

If you have other requirements, please let us know and we can help arrange more suitable accommodation.

Work time

Our school day is from 10am to 3pm. Volunteers are able to be provided with school materials to use or may wish to bring their own. Volunteers are also able to teach children other topics of interest, with prior agreement with the volunteer supervisor.

Many volunteers bring resources for the school and children, either from their home country or after arriving in Nepal. This includes second hand books collected from their school at home. Our children do not have access to many books or other stationary, so this is very much appreciated.

Terms and condition

  • Volunteers needs to make Tims and NTNC permit from Pokhara. It costs US$40.
  • Volunteers needs to pay US$50 per week to organization.
  • Volunteers are not allowed to throw rubbish and garbage anywhere. They need to be thrown in proper places.
  • Volunteers must be polite with local people.
  • Volunteers need to be respect Nepali culture and tradition.
  • Volunteers are not allowed to disturb wildlife.
  • Volunteers must be co-operated with teachers and students of schools.
  • Volunteers need to take care of their belonging themselves.
  • Volunteers need to give the photocopies of their passport and identity card to the organization.
  • Volunteers can support schools and organization as well kids if they can.
  • Volunteers must have travel insurance.

Thank You

What is Montessori?

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Montessori is a method of education that is based on self-directed activity, hands-on learning and collaborative play. In Montessori classrooms children make creative choices in their learning, while the classroom and the teacher offer age-appropriate activities to guide the process. Children work in groups and individually to discover and explore knowledge of the world and to develop their maximum potentials. Montessori Method creates an environment for young children that enable them to be independent, active and learn. Montessori approach mainly focus to freedom of learning. The prepared environment makes learning materials and experience available to children in orderly format. Montessori describes really what educators advocate when they talk about child-centered education and active learning. Freedom is the essential characteristic of prepared environment. Since children within the environment are free to explore materials of their own choosing, they observe what they find there.

Our Goal of Training

Mainly our project wants to transform the traditional method of teaching learning. In the working site of our project, here are altogether seventeen schools within ECD levels. All schools are funded by government and the community based. They are facing lots of problem about scientific learning and the modern technology. Government applies some methods of teaching and learning method in those schools but it promotes only traditional approach of learning. It can’t fulfill the real demand of teaching approach in early child development. So, KERE KIDS NEPAL basically transforms the methods of teaching and learning by having a training in these areas.

Our goals are followings:-

  • To change the approach of teaching and learning
  • To develop the classroom of ECD levels
  • To utilize the local resource
  • To take out the inner quality of students through this training

Need of Training

Since the traditional methods of teaching learning activities carried in the rural area like once has not been much fruitful and it’s a huge needs to transform and have notice worth the positive changes in teaching learning method. The challenges like untrained teachers, ignorant parents and developing communities prevalent project. The necessities of skill enhancing programs to the facilitator especially in growing pre-school and early school children. The following points in our project points of view justifies the need of Montessori Teachers Training for the teachers of our schools.

  • To promote child friendly environment in classroom and school territory as traditional notion of teacher student relation is hegemonies
  • To enhance child centered learning
  • To develop and have significant achievement of different skills like muscle and language skills, practical skills, motor skills and community skills in students through Montessori approach of teaching learning
  • To teach self-discipline and organized behavior in order through Montessori teaching learning method
  • To overcome and transform traditional teaching learning approach into learning by doing and playing
  • To encourage students skills of co-operative play
  • To inspire creativity in teaching learning method
  • To develop and implement ECD (early child development) curriculum to rid of the students from burden of traditional curriculum
  • To individualize system and order in the students
  • To encourage teachers to facilitator, the learning experience system
  • To enhance teachers with classroom language
  • To inculcate the modern teaching learning approach I teachers through Montessori Training
  • To transform teachers into facilitators for liberator and pupils guide
  • To train teachers as colors, origami and krigamiet
  •  Overall to have a significant achievement of children and schools

Beneficial schools and teachers

KERE KIDS NEPAL works altogether seventeen schools of northern Myagdi district. There are four secondary schools and thirteen primary schools. There are altogether 120 teachers and seventeen ECD teachers. They are untrained and not highly qualified. They don’t get opportunity to have such kind of training. We are trying to train teachers and development of their quality as well as schools.

By this training nearly 50 ECD teachers are directly beneficial. We are going to participate other neighbor’s school teachers too. They also don’t get this kind of training and they also interested of this training. So, by this training many teachers become beneficial.

Organization
Safe kids pre-school, Kaski
SetoGuransBalBikash, Kaski

Organized by
KERE KIDS NEPAL
Annapurna Rural Municipality 2
BHURUNG TATOPANI, NEPAL