New developments at KHSS

There have been some wonderful developments in Mirge this year since my last post. Kalidhunga Higher Secondary School has completed their new building for classes 1 – 3 and have been furbishing it with more modern, child centred equipment and materials. They have also adopted a new curriculum that includes more instruction in English Medium and better quality texts and teaching materials. This self-initiated and independent action is exactly what I have been working towards. It is an exciting development and I am even more motivated to support the teachers in developing better English skills so they can achieve their goals which essentially involve improving the baseline educational skills in the early years so that they have a better foundation for future educational successes.

 In addition, the most significant new initiative is the employment of a local young women to work as an ECCA field staff member. Her name is Man Maya Tamang and has completed her +2 (Year 12) and has been involved as an ECCA counsellor for this year and as such has worked alongside the trainers in our programs. Now she has been trained to take on quite an extensive proactive role in furthering the work of ECCA through the six schools we currently work with in the village. At the moment she is on 3 months’ probation and if she demonstrates effectiveness and shows promise then we will continue to employ her for as long as we have the funds. Stay tuned!

 

Finally, last week Bipin, our field trainer, a volunteer counsellor and Man Maya conducted a 5 day Nature Club program and I am keen to read their report. I will post news of the latest developments as soon as I get them. In fact I am becoming more and more excited because I can sense that our goals are being achieved albeit slowly. That's all for now -  exciting news eh!