What HAVE THE SCHOOLS IN HANGDEWA ACHIEVED WITH OUR GRANTS?
Timeline
2007
- Legal commitment to the villagers of Hangdewa to build a school for quality education (written on rice paper)
- First visit by the founder, Lesley Warburton, to Hangdewa via jeep, lorry, bus and walking (arriving 24 hours late!)
2008
- First volunteers liaise with community
2009
- School with 5 classrooms built for 5-11 year-olds
2011
- All children given uniforms (made by local tailors) and text books (Nepali curriculum)
2015
- 100 children and 10 teachers in the school (many in temporary classrooms)
2016
- Yellow school for 5-14 year olds - upper school completed with 9 classrooms and a staff room
- Toilets improved
- Clean water installed from source at mountain top
- First lap-tops and English books reach the village
- Q. Learning Trust set up as a Nepali charity
2017
- Volunteers teach art, science and chess – and learn to make momas
- Pauline and Laurie Bennet visit from NZ and become major sponsors
- Tarmacked road to nearby Taplejung enables visitors to travel more easily to the village
2018
- Orange Montessori school opens for 60 4-6 year olds – 3 teachers travel to Kathmandu for Montessori qualifications
- Aptitude Software donate 11 computers for the school plus volunteers from UK, Poland and USA to install them and liaise about getting WiFi
- GRID 91 provides two volunteers from Mumbai to examine school safety and security
- Lego makes an appearance for the first time in the village
- First eye-tests and free glasses
2019
- Aptitude Software donate a further 14 computers for the school
- Practical Science starts with a microscope
- ‘Poorest children’ bursaries set up
- Sanitary wear made available to those girls who need it
- New toilet blocks built at both schools
- Undergraduate students enrolled in universities. Alumni include engineers, clinicians, computer studies, teachers, Nepal Army ……
2020
- Rental Villa ‘Kangchenjunga View’ opens for visitors: sustainable tourism to support schools and provide employment
- Playground developed for Orange Montessori School
- 200 children and 15 teachers in schools (4-14 year olds)
- Lockdown support for teachers and families
- UK Charity Commission gives charitable status to Q.Learning Nepal Trust CIO number 1192365
- All teachers engage in self-development for spoken English and IT skills improvement
2021
- Over 40 Ambassadors from all classes learn from their Mentors and Buddies in other countries
- 25% of poorest children receive full bursaries including uniforms, books, glasses etc
- Partnership working with Millfield School in the UK
- School competitions include social essays, book reviews, cookery recipes and storytelling
- Prefects and Head Boy and Head Girl appointed
- Basketball court built
- Cabling brought to the school for excellent internet connectivity
- School extended to Class 8 (220 children aged 4/15)
- First practical science teacher appointed
- First Zoom lessons begin in lockdown
2022
-Practical science room and creative rooms built
-School closures due to Covid minimised by online teaching for older children
-56 Kindles given to the school, each with access to 1,000 children's books
-Sport, art, photography and music lessons added to curriculum - football, volleyball, cricket, soft-tennis, table-tennis, guitar and traditional madal
-School dancers perform in Taplejung for the Taplejung Marathon and Tourism Festival
-First school trip: Class 8 visit Ilam and ride horses and try out boating
-Taplejung Schools' Chess Champion from Q.Learning Nepal School
-Individual desks made for older students (not just benches)
-First Zoom lessons from Millfield School in UK prepared by their students
-Volunteers able to return to the village post-Covid
-Laptops donated by mentors, Attraqt and K3 Business Technologies, prepared by AAG
-237 students aged 3-15
-55 Ambassadors with international mentors
-25% of students on 100% bursaries: tuition, uniforms, textbooks, glasses, sanitary wear
-All new girls given bursaries to encourage equal access to a quality education
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