SDG 4: Help All Children Access Education in Nepal

Dear Supporter,

More exciting news this month on how your donations are being used in Pokhara.

We have been working with the Street Children’s Rehabilitation Centre since July 2012. Every Friday afternoon we would take the children to a near-by water hole for them to shower and wash their clothes. However, in March 2013 this became harder to do so as there was a huge water shortage that effected Pokhara when a large Seti river flood broke many surrounding pipes. We found ourselves waiting several hours to wash to the children and their clothes. When monsoon came we were able to collect rain water for their showers and washing but unfortunately monsoon has come to an end and we need more water for the children. With the donated money we will use this to help connect the home to the government water supply and we have purchased a 1000 litres tank for reserve purposes.  As the children had to visit the water hole daily for drinking water we have also purchased a euro-guard filter so safe drinking water and to help improve their health.  The filter will allow the mother of the house to insure all the children are not becoming ill from dirty water.

The children from the home now have access to more water to help with hygiene and clean drinking water to stop illnesses. The home is very grateful to have the extra tank to store water especially as we are coming into the dry season and more water shortages.

For 8 months now we have been teaching a 11 year old girl who has Spina Bifida whom you might remember meeting in our report a few months ago. After working with Nikita for only a couple of months we realised that she needed to have much better support in the sitting position. Nikita did not change positions very regularly and we noticed in a recent physiotherapy assessment that we needed to prevent her scoliosis from worsening, so we decided that the best idea would be to have made a supportive chair and table high enough and wide enough for a wheelchair to fit under. We were able to have a chair and table made to measure and Nikita now is able to enjoy her lessons more in a supportive chair. 

Nikita is very happy with her new table and chair and she has told us that now she has a supportive chair her back isn’t so painful after a school day. She is working very hard now to build up her upper body strength in order to help her to move independently from her chair to the floor with the volunteers.

None of this could have been done without you so thank you

Ruth Malthouse

Nepal Country Director

Links:

• http://www.gvi.org