How Can You Help
Improve Singla Primary School
There is a small government supported primary school in Singla where children between the ages of 6 to 15 can receive a basic education up to grade 5. But it needs a lot of help!
Our Goals are to: Bring More Teachers: Sadly, due to lack of funding the government has only sent three teachers for over 190 children. Classrooms are unorganized and children of mixed ages have to study together which make it difficult for the teachers to teach and students to learn. First of all, we wish to improve the teacher to student ratio at the school. We would like to raise money to pay the salaries for one or two more teachers. The cost of bringing one qualified teacher to Singla is EURO 1800/- per year, including teacher’s salary, food, lodging and holiday allowance...
Scholarship
The future of Singla lies in the hands of the next generation and a superior education plays an important role in this. Currently in Singla, there is no opportunity for children who wish to study beyond grade 5 and even the existing education is very poor.
In order to receive a better education, the children must make their way to secondary and high schools outside Singla. They can walk three days to enroll in Secondary School in the closest town Arughat, three days walk from Singla. Or they can take an extra day’s journey by bus to Thankot, a town on the outskirts of Kathmandu. These are privately run small, boarding schools where the children will live for 11 months and receive a good modern education so they can come back and teach or work in government or the private sector...
Sanitation, Health and Hygine
In Singla, in this remote area the people have no possibility to live in a healthy, sanitary area with toilets or other facilities of a minimum hygiene standard. There is not a single toilet in the entire village.
There is no running water; people therefore get the water they need from small fountains outdoors. Here, the people wash all materials, clothes and body, hair etc. In the houses is no water or toilet, only one room for cooking and sleeping (in the same room). Cooking is done in a hole on the floor and firewood from the nearby forests is used to cook. To cook with firewood on the floor causes a lot of eyes problems. Due to the altitude and poor living conditions, a lot of people have runny noses and eyes and problems with chronic cold. Headaches, digestive problems ...
