Education

Education system of Nepal.  Education is the most effective way of changing people’s lives. Our government has 2 different kinds of school system which divides people into two groups.

The Government school system is not competitive and teachers are not motivated. All the subjects are taught in Nepalese, except one, English.

The Private system is good but expensive. Those who study in private schools always have better job opportunities.

Now Green Society Nepal is trying to build a privately-run school.
The GSN have bought the land in Sauraha on which to build a private school for up to 250 children of primary age (6 years to 10 years).

The school will take 50% of children who can pay for their education (how much, Rp’s each child) and 50% of children unable to pay.

and 6-8 well-motivated and experienced Teachers.

THE AIM: to provide a quality, equal education for ALL children and to enable them to gain better-paid jobs.

Planning Permission has been given.

US $130,000 is needed to build the whole school,
however $50,000 will be enough to  build 4 classrooms which will immediately benefit the local children.

Who will benefit?: Society as a whole, the local economy, individuals will reach their full potential. Education is a means to eradicate poverty.

Executive Summary
Green Society Nepal is a non-profit social organization, which was established in November 2007 in order to work in Health, Education, Bio-Diversity and Community Development of Nepal. Through local participation, Green Society Nepal aims to educate and empower the local people of Chitwan. By educating inhabitants about and promoting and incorporating environmentally-friendly technologies, we strive to minimize the impact of a growing population in the region and to keep within our principles of conservation of wildlife, wildlife habitat and biodiversity as a whole.

 

Traditionally, quality (private) education in Nepal has been too expensive for most families. This has especially been the case in rural areas of the country. In the Chitwan area, private education is also 10-15 kilometers from most homes.

Using a unique cost and tuition structure, Green Society Nepal envisions a class 1-12 school, Green Society School, in which children of all economic and social persuasions have an equal opportunity to empower themselves. We foresee children proudly wearing their school uniforms, walking arm-in-arm with their friends on the way to class in the morning. Motivated and highly trained teachers joyfully greet their pupils in English. Burgeoning boys and girls excitedly respond using new words they learned in school the day before or from each other. Classes are taught in English for every subject but one, Nepali. There’s an enthusiasm in the air at Green Society School as the day begins – the community is learning together, growing exponentially and creating a future in which all will flourish.

Green Society Nepal is seeking $100,000 USD in order to complete financing for the socially groundbreaking private Green Society Public School that will educate children in and around Bachhauli, Chitwan, Nepal. Green Society Nepal has already been guaranteed funding for 20% of our total construction cost. Through local grants and partner funding, Green Society Public School is already self-sustainable after year one, planning to achieve a profit . With your support of our building construction, our success is assured.

Statement of Macro Level Problem
On February 27, 2012 República, a leading English print newspaper in Nepal, published an article entitled “Slide into Africa” by Sukhdev Shah, a former Nepali ambassador to the United States and 20-year veteran of the International Monetary Fund.  In the article, Shah concluded that Nepal’s “immense misuse of public money and public’s as well as donors’ inability to press for accountability” as the reason why Nepal remains poor and its future remains bleak.  Prior to the publication, the World Bank had released its 2012 World Development Report (WDR), entitled “Gender Equality and Development,” which shockingly included Nepal amongst the bottom of all worldwide nations, surrounded by (and ranked below) many sub-Saharan countries.  At least one nongovernmental organization, The Mountain Fund, which focuses on education primarily in the northern regions of Nepal, expressly points to Mr. Shah’s article, which incorporates much of the 2012 World Development Report data, as the reason why the group is involved in Nepal.  Other organizations, such as First Steps Himalaya, site inadequate funding, poor training and high levels of teacher absenteeism (at the governmental level) as the reason for their program.

 

Although Nepal’s literacy rate has risen dramatically since 1950 from just 5% to 66% in 2011, its female literacy rate remains at just 57%.  Net primary school enrollment now stands at 90%; however, more than half of Nepali children do not enter secondary school.  One-half more do not complete secondary education, resulting in a net enrollment rate of just 24% for classes 9-12.  Coupled with more than two million Nepali workers seeking work abroad, or nearly 8% of the population, Nepal suffers from a severe shortage of skilled labor.

Nepal is a land of untapped opportunity.  Unfortunately, it is also a country of economic and social mismanagement.  Home to eight of the top ten highest mountain peaks in the world, Nepal is an obvious tourist destination, yet its political instability has largely mired the industry.  The landlocked country boasts itself as one of the largest untapped hydropower markets in the world with an estimated 83,000 million watts; however, only 40% of its population has access to electricity (90% urban; 5% rural).  Annually, Nepal receives over $2 billion USD in foreign aid and has a national investment rate of 29% of GDP or close to $4 billion USD per year, placing it in the top quartile of nations, yet its road density ranks as one of the lowest in South Asia.  Nepal ranks as 157th out of 187 countries on the United Nations’ Human Development Index and as 3rd lowest behind Afghanistan and Yemen in the Asia and Oceania region. 

Nepal is divided into districts, which are then subdivided into Village Development Committees (VDC), each with nine wards.  Within the area of Bachhauli, a sizeable disparity in wealth exists, as Sauraha, the tourist center of the area, is incorporated into wards one through five.  The remaining wards, by and large, do not benefit from tourism.  As such, approximately 50% of the families in Sauraha have the means to send their children to private school, compared to just 20% of families from wards six through nine.  Considering the significant quality discrepancy between private (institutional) and government (community) schools, this issue is epidemic.

Currently, the major investment opportunities in Nepal include: agriculture, tourism, hydroelectricity, education, healthcare, financial services, private shops and exports (ready-made garments and commodities).  In each sector save one, private shops, fluent knowledge of English is critical.  Private schools teach exclusively in English, giving its pupils a chance to succeed on the global marketplace.  Government schools, however, teach exclusively in Nepali, leaving its students falling further behind.

When referring to the Nepalese Ministry of Education statistics, one finds an even more striking contrast to the quality of education that exists in Nepal.   At the end of class level 10 in Nepal, all students take a School Leaving Certificate (SLC) exam.  According to Ministry of Education, of the 419,049 students who took the SLC exam in 2012, only 197,638 (47.2%) passed.  Looking more closely, however, one finds the dramatic discrepancy.  Just 36.5% of government pupils passed the SLC exam, while a nearly 85% of private students successfully navigated the exam!  Even more surprising perhaps is the fact that 46.6% of government students passed the SLC exam the year prior – a full 10% more!  By comparison, 85.8% of private students passed the 2011 SLC exam.

Looking in the daily newspapers in Nepal, it is ever apparent that the education quality gap between private and government schools is growing, seemingly, by the day.  A glance at the May 8, 2013 República print edition, for instance, includes an article about the current (and annual) textbook shortage at government schools.  It is apparent that private schools are the only hope to resurrect Nepal. 

Green Society Nepal present work

• We  have sponsored 70 poor children in private school.
• We  are giving training  to the women. Like Stiching  cloths and Embroding
• We  are  operating libery  in village Bachhauli
• We are making paper from Elephant dung, which created employment 5 person
• We are building community  hospital in Bachhauli V.D.C
• Our last projects is to build social school. This school will help to educate poor and marginal group. This school will charge those family who can pay and support those family who can not pay .

Objective

• We have no good school nearby,
• To provide quality education in affordable price for all Groups.
• To provide quality education for animal victims
• To provide quality education for marginalized group like elephant drivers/caretakers, Rickshaw puller,
• To provide quality education for different ethnic backgrounds who have no opportunity,
• To make a model school in remote place where haves and haves not gets equal opportunity,
• To make self sustain school with international and community support,

School Building cost

S.N	Description	Quqntity	Units	Rates	Amounts Rs
01	Earthwork in Excavation	10469.00	Cu.ft	5.00	52345.00
02	Earth Back filling	13259.00	Sq.ft	3.00	39777.00
03	Flat brick soiling	5046.00	Sq.ft	25.00	126150.00
04	P.C.C	1665.42	Cu.ft	205.00	341411.10
05	R.C,C	6185.98	Cu.ft	225.00	1391845.50
06	Reinforcement	21650.93	Kg	100.00	2165095.00
07	Form work	15351	Sq.ft	30.00	460530.00
08	Brick Work	9223.00	Cu.ft	165.00	1521795.00
09	Telia tile flooring	9791.10	Sq.ft	65.00	636421.50
10	Cement Skirting	1478.40	Sq.ft	22.00	32524.80
11	Plastering on wall, Ceiling	1478.40	Sq.ft	30.00	547041.00
12	Liun Plaster	7920.00	Sq.ft	12.00	95040.00
13	Wall Paints	18235.00	Sq.ft	13.00	237055.00
14	Enamel Paint	3489.00	Sq.ft	11.00	38379.00
15	Wooden Railing	175.00	Sq.ft	450.00	78750.00
16	Wooden handrailing	18.00	R.ft	475.00	8550.00
17	Wood Work for Frame	248.20	Cu.ft	1600.00	397120.00
18	Wooden Roof with Thatch	3686.00	Sq.ft	400.00	486000.00
19	Glazing window	1620.00	Sq.ft	300.00	486000.00
20	Flush Door Shuttering	672.00	Sq.ft	500.00	336000.00
21	Ceramic tile	850.00	Sq.ft	85.00	72250.00
22	Tiolet   2 rooms for B and G	2 Nos		70.000.00	70.000.00
	Total in Nepali Rupees				10608477.90

Summary for construction

S.N	Description	Amount
01	Total Civil works	10608477.90
02	Electrical work	530423.09
03	Sanitary, Water supply, Toilets	212169.56
	Grand cost   for construction Total	1,13,51,071.35
		98,704.96 Euro	1,33,542.01 Dollar

Non Building cost

S.N	Description	NRs	Euro	Dollar
01	Total Cost -- Classrooms	409500.00	3663.00	4762.00
02	Cost Per Computer Room	170300.00	15232.00	19802.00
03	Cost Per Library	1223000.00	10939.00	14221.00
04	Cost Per Accounts Office	36000.00	322.00	419.00
05	Cost Per Administrative Office	47400.00	424.00	551.00
06	Cost Per Principal Office	53900.00	482.00	627.00
07	Cost Per Staff Room	7400.00	66.00	86.00
08	Cost Per Hall	4000.00	36.00	47.00
	Total non Building cost	19,0810.00	17,346.36	22,187.20

Classes: ( Nursery ,Lkg, Ukg and grade 1 to 5
One year budgeting for 200 students (minimum )

S.N	Teachers salary	Official assistant salary	Guard  salary	Extras
1	9* 15000 = 1,35000 * 12 = 16,38,000	21500*12   =258000	12000*12   =144000,	200000
	Total  Budgest  for 1 Year			2240,000 Rs
		NRs	Euro	Dollar
		2240,000 Rs	203636.63	26046.51

Extra Matetarial:

Teaching materials	Text books & curriculum	Teachers guides and extra books	computers printers, multimedia
1,00000	50,000	50000	4,00000
	Total cost		600,000
	NRs	Euro	Dollar
Total cost	600,000	5454.54	6976.74

Summery of all the cost:

S.N	Particular	Cost in NPR	Cost in Euro	Cost in Dollar
01	School Building cost	1,13,51,071.35	98,704.96	1,33,542.01
02	Total non Building cost	19,0810.00	17,346.36	22,187.20
03	One year budgeting  for 200 students	2240,000	20363.63	26046.51
04	Extra Matetarial	600,000	5454.54	6976.74
	Total cost	1,43,818.81	1,41,868.48	1,88,752.46