Prajwal School buys a bus

March 25, Hetauda

Prajwal School has bought a second hand bus. School can provides its services to children from other communities. With transport facility, it is hoped that the number of students will increase in the school and in long term it will contribute towards making the school self-reliant financially.

Prajwal School is committed to provide education opportunities for disadvantaged children from other communities as well.

Lack of transport facilities, many children from adjoining villages were deprived of having education in Prajwal School.

From Principal's diary : Home visits to Makranchuli

28 February 2009
I woke up early in the morning and arrived at the school at 6 a.m. Our team had planned to go to Makranchuli. The team started walking up hill through the wood; it took about half an hour to reach Makranchuli. Some new members ( Babulal sir, Nirjana miss, Uttam Shrestha, a PTA member) had joined us to visit Makranchuli.

Anil's house SMC Chair Mr. Hari Prasad Sigdel interacting

We first went to Punam Ghimire’s house. Punam is an ex-student of the Prajwal School. She topped the District Level Exam last year. We met her mother and talked about present situation of the school. Her name was Sarada Ghimire who was also a teacher of Juneli School. Hari Prasad Sigdel ( Hari Sir), our team leader and the chairperson of the School Management Committee briefed about recent improvement of our school. He stressed the need of a good relationship between Juneli and Prajwal School. We met a classmate of Purna sir. His name was Badri Sapkota. We gave our introduction and told him about our school. He was convinced to send his daughter to our school when she would complete grade 5.

It was already 9:00 am, so we had breakfast and bought some prizes for students in a local shop. After walking for half an hour, we reached Madan Pathak’s house. Madan and his younger brother go to Prajwal School. When we reached ,they were busy in their studies. His mother greeted us with tea and bananas. This village is famous for bananas. We gave our introduction and learned about their home environment. The home environment wasn't good enough but they were happy with that. The students had poor economic condition. Madan’s father was not there, he had gone to sell bananas in Hetauda. We gave the students ball pens as a gift . We took group photos. It was already half past ten in the morning .
Then we went to Anil Pudasainee’s house, he is a student of grade 7.

We met his father. His father was so impressed the team work of parents, teachers and school management committee. He reported that his son was learning better than before. He said ' If the same learning activities were given before , then up to now students had done much better in their studies'. And I said “This is just a beginning, we must provide proper education to students, not only bookish but helping them to be creative, engaging them in practical works of related subjects. He told us that the use of English language in the school was not sufficient to students. Nirjana miss said “Only speaking English doesn't make students good at English language We must equally give priority to use mother tongue to help students understand the content of curriculum.”

We clarified his misunderstanding about the school. We were served by tea. By then, we already had 7 cups of tea. It was already 12:30 pm so we gave a gift to Anil and returned back to the school. It took us half an hour to come down the hill. These students walk through the wood up and down hill for an hour to Prajwal School.We had a nice time at Makranchuli. I was very pleased that parents, management and teachers were active and parents appreciated our visit. When I reached home it was already 1:30 pm.