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NJSI-Fe y Alegria Nepal national office has launched the Computer Animation and Graphics training for rural girls. The program is intended to give opportunity to learn computer, personality development, currier guidance and basic English to rural grils who have competed +2 and staying back home without going to University studies or waiting for admission in next three months. Food, Accommodation, and course are given free while they are also supported partially, if not fully for their travel.

The first batch form Kavre and Jhapa districts and one boy from Tipling started their training in September and completed in the first week of November 2022. Initially the one month is given training in English typing and getting familiar with computer. Then they were given advanced graphics and animation training.

The drawings and cartoon making programs like OpenToonz is highly useful in creating education content and making creative educational materials. These materials help the teachers to explain a topic in a short time since the visuals help the children to understand better. Moreover, digital content get the attention of the chidren very fast while the traditional teaching techniques literally bore the students.

As they are able to do drawings and animation, the text book based projects of science subjects are given to them from different classes. Each one has to do the animation for a particular chapter. The creation of the children are collected into a computer and given to the rural schools as teaching aid. Thus NJSI has the advantage of two birds in one shot, the girls get a livelihood training in computer while the rural students get digital study materials.

At the end of the three month training program, the students are give certificate which will be valuable for their job opportunities while the new computer knowledge gives them added advantage in higher studies. The students were grateful for the opportunities and they even highlighted the their confidence in self studies as they were trained to research and study by themselves and find solutions to the problems that could arise while dealing with computer graphics.

As we were finishing the earthquake interventions, yet another schools building was constructed and handed over in Charnavati municipality in Dolakha District on 30th November 2021. The school is situated at the edge of the village near the forest entrance and has the capacity of 152 children up to class 8.

This is one of the least developed schools in terms of infrastructure and teaching resources. The teachers have hardly any training in creative teaching techniques. NJSI has also taken the chance to improve the education here by establishing and education smart hub and linking them to our training programs and orientations.

The inaugural ceremony was chaired by the local leadership while the local educatin officials came and expressed their gratitude towards NJSI the memorable contribution.

Arun Rural municipality in Yaku, Bhojpur district is in Predesh no 1, is situtated to the North east of Nepal. Out of the total population of 17687, Rais, Chettris, Magars and Bhrahmins (hill) are the leading ethnic groups while Newars, Tamangs, Kamis and Bhujel have significant numbers. The district is mostly rural except for the recently built highway which passes through the main cities.

Vishwapremi Secondary school, is the main Government school in the area and has the students volume of about 500. NJSI was invited by the school management committee along with the local government and leaders who wanted their school educational environment to be enhanced with modern technology and teaching methods. There seems to be great interest among the local people in developing the school. This is also one of the first established Government schools in Nepal.

NJSI team led by Fr. Roy Sebastian, SJ. Reached the village on 21 September 2022. Besides establishing the Education Smart Hub in the school, the team also visited a couple of nearby government schools looking at the possibility of conducting Rural Education Improvement program. This has become the 34th school where NJSI-Fe y Alegria Nepal has started REIN.

There were three parent’s orientations were given in the year 2022. One in Jaya Bageshowri women center which is located at Galthum, Sindhupalchowk, another one was in Indrawati Women’s Center which is located at, Katunje, Kavre and last one was at Kavre Regional Center. Both of the women centers were built by NJSI. The parent’s orientations were aimed at conscientizing the parents about the Psycho-socio development of the children at their growing age. How to understand and monitor a child’s behavior in order to help the child in difficulties and problems. Our resource person, Ms. Rama Karki, a senior psychologist and have been working with SOS children’s village for many years. She is presently the care taker of the SOS Special children’s village at Jorpatti, Kathmandu.
The parent’s orientation is often coupled with Paralegal training as well. This includes teaching of the constitutional provisions for women and child care in the new democratic change over in Nepal. It is quite a unique phenomenon that in most of our parent’s orientation and paralegal training program mostly women, generally the mothers participate. It is understood in the context that when the men are mostly out looking for job, the women stay back home and look after the property and the children. So, it is very important to educate the women in villages so that there is more awareness and knowledge towards the need for proper education and development of the children for creating better citizens for the future of Nepal.

NJSI team headed to Shree Bhumi Basic School on 23rd June, 2023 to provide track-suit for 128 students. The school is located at Lukum village which is at Rukum district. The school runs the classes from ECD to 8. The village lays on the foot of high mountains, the people have their own culture, language and identity. The houses are made in a village style which are years old. Till a decade ago, there were no road but now the road has brought a huge change in the life of villagers. The students come from very poor family background. The school is 35 years old, It was establish in 2045 B.S. The students were very happy after receiving the new clothes, track suit and the school Management Committee was thankful for the support from NJSI team.

To mark the auspicious day of NJSI on 19th May, 2022, NJSI celebrated by distributing 30 summer blankets to the visually impaired ones from Bright Star Society. NJSI was establish in 2015, May 19th after the massive earthquake in Nepal. It was established by Nepal Jesuit Society (NJS). We celebrated our 7 years of working in relief, recovery and rehabilitation sectors.