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New Projects Underway!

5/4/2018

Check out the video below to see NSP Nepal hard at work building a latrine in Jordanga!

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We have completed over 50 latrines in this area and there is still a need to continue to build.Three other projects have also just started-primary school in the Banakhu area, a toilet construction project and a water installation project in Phoksingtar. Way to go NSP Nepal! And thank you to everyone who has helped make this possible through donations!

Newsletter From The Executive Director

12/23/2017

December 2017

Namaste

Thank-you so much for your contribution to our fundraiser at Jakes Oyster Bar and Grill on October 17, 2017. NSP is grateful to generous folks like you. Because of you, we are able to continue to build latrines and water systems in the rural villages of the Kavre District of Nepal. We are also working with the school we visited last year in Nepal after the fundraiser.

Please check out our website to stay up to date with NSP projects:

http://www.nepalschoolprojects.ca

Betty Irwin, one of our board members, has recently returned from Nepal and she was encouraged by the ongoing work in the villages. The villagers are very appreciative of our involvement to improve their health, sanitation and education.

Thanks again for your support. We managed to reach our goal of $35,000. CDN. NSP looks forward to seeing you next year

Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for 2018.
Fran Lloyd
Executive Director

September Newsletter!

10/2/2017

Nepal School Projects
Newsletter September 2017

Namaste

We are pleased to introduce our new Nepal School Projects (NSP) Canada logo! The logo was designed by students at The Agency, McKeil School Of Business located within Mohawk College. The logo holds deep meaning to us. The mountains capture where we do our work, red is the national colour of Nepal, and the sun rising over the mountains refers to a new day for the villagers with the help of NSP. We hope you like it!
As a neophyte democracy Nepal has had many challenges, particularly since the devastating earthquake in April 2015. The government is trying desperately to develop systems and methods of administration that reach out to all the people. Life is moving forward, albeit slowly. NSP is being true to its grassroots heritage and continuing to build latrines and water systems in the very rural areas of Kavre, southeast of Kathmandu.
Thanks to our many donors, we have been able to keep our local people employed while improving sanitation and health circumstances. I want to particularly thank Forres Sandle Manor in Hampshire England , a primary school whose students raised over $4000.00 CDN this spring. We would also like to thank St. Timothy’s Catholic Primary School in Burlington, Ontario. St. Timothy’s students made 50 school kits to be delivered to school children in Nepal. Amazing work!
NSP’s annual budget is $100, 000 CDN to be spent on our selected projects in Nepal. To date we have completed 34 latrines in Jordanga (Gokule VDC) and installed 29 water taps and 4 reservoirs in Chuhare Danda (Folkingtar VDC), which has brought clean water to 46 families (441 people). The work is ongoing as new projects are approved. The best weather for building is during the dry season from October to May. Monsoon season (June to mid October) presents many challenges for building, especially the danger of landslides in these very hilly regions. Although roads are being built, the majority of our materials need to be carried by people, often several hours or a day’s walk. Please visit our website (www.nepalschoolprojects.ca) to learn more about our exciting projects and to see photos of NSP Nepal in action!
With the support of Randolph Langenbach, our work to develop gabion banding is ongoing. We are now also collaborating with a volunteer architect group from Quebec called Emergency Architects who have agreed to pursue the approval of gabion banding by the Nepalese government, and also to develop a final school design, engineer the design, and manage the building project. They have experience in Nepal and will use our local tradespeople. This NGO provides us with much needed design, direction and technical support. NSP is looking forward to our partnership, as we are anxious to move forward with the rebuilding of damaged schools. NSP has been firm in its commitment to gabion banding and is opposed to using rebar and cement construction because these materials simply do not stand the test of time. Local stone and mud mortar buildings are a much better option.
On the home front, David Jackson, an NSP director has developed a high school leadership program, which he is hoping to implement in the Toronto area in the next year. The students would develop leadership skills during the year and then travel to Nepal for some first-had experience in the spring of their grade 12 year. Fundraising for a school would also be a requirement.
NSP Canada would like to welcome our newest affiliate, NSP USA! One of our board members, Meghan Geisler, who lives in Denver, Colorado has registered NSP as a charity in the United States and will soon be able to issue American charitable receipts to donors, which is very desirable to our American friends. Congratulations Meghan on tackling and succeeding with this incredibly involved process!
Betty Irwin, another NSP director, will be again visiting Nepal in November. It is always great to reconnect with our Nepali friends and we are sure that she will have lots to report on!
Lastly, our annual fundraiser is coming up on October 22, 2017 at Jake’s Oyster House and Grill in Burlington. We hope to see you there. Tickets are available online for $50 each at: www.nepalschoolprojects.ca

There will be great food, live music, Nepali dancing and a silent and live auction! Don’t miss it! Thank you for your continuing financial support. We could not do it without you! We hope to see you at the fundraiser!
Cheers

Fran Lloyd, Executive Director

September 26th, 2017

9/26/2017

We received two amazing letters of appreciation from students supported through NSP. We couldn't be more proud of their achievements!

Dear sponsor, my Fran maam

Heartily Warm Greeting

I am Kunsang Syangtan from Kathmandu fifteen year old school student presently studying in grade ten at creative model Academy Boarding School. In the beginning I got admission in Puspa Bal Academy in Nursary class and now after merging two school it is learning by the name Creative model Academy Boarding high school located at Lazimpat is one of the better school having various facilities with good learning environment.

Maam, this is my further that I am getting financial support initially through Nepal School Project handled by the Canadian and now financial support of Ms. Franlloyed has encouraging me with great zeal upon study hat would bring changes my life career.

Maam, I am a boy of a poor family background of a remote village area of Kavre district of nepal where people are deprived from education but fortunately I got chance to study in the boarding school of capital city, Kathmandu. It is all became possible because of your valuable support and the role of my uncle (Babulal) who worked as a bridge between you and me. I am indebted enough to you who had successes to bring change in my life career, which I have evaluated as a God father. Finally, when will you come in Nepal? I hope we will meet together with fall of honour and courtesy.

At lasts my SEE(Secondary Education Examination, Government board exam also coming near. I am studying with great zeal, effort and diligence deserve GPA A+. such performance will do the great support for my further study; So that makes me eligible for the continuation of your financial support for good shaping of my life career that remains in my heart and mind everlasting.

Thank you

Sincerely yours,   Kunsang Syangtan

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Dear sponsor, My Fran maam and betty maam and linda maam

Heartily warms greeting!

I am Srijana Ghalan from Kathmandu. I am studying in standard V at Creative Model Academy Boarding High School is one of the better school for quality Education both learning environment.

Maam, I am very lucky person in sense that, I am getting financial support from you that has incoming me with great zeal upon study that would bring changes my life career.

Maam, I am a girl of a poor family background of a remote village area of Kavre district of Nepal my father worked in the beginning under Nepal School Project as a Carpenter and Letter as a Sponsors. A person who because not get chance to gosh education through with great struggle he is caring us due to your support. We are studying in a boarding school of Kathmandu; this is all became possible because of your valuable support. I am grateful enough to you who are supporting me to bring change in my life career.

My sincere thanks to you for your kind support and hoped that it will be continued in the years to come.

Thank You!
Sincerely yours,

Srijana Ghalan

Latrine Completed in Jordhanga!

9/26/2017

Rajjedada School and Toilet Construction Underway!

9/18/2017

Video from the Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform in Kathmandu

5/6/2017

Check out this video from the lecture given by Randolph Langenbach in Nepal at the Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform in Kathmandu. The lecture includes an analysis of the damage caused by the earthquakes of 2015 in Nepal to stone masonry buildings with mud mortar, and illustrates an approach to reconstruction of houses and schools utilizing a concept developed by Langenbach called "Gabion Bands". More information can be found at traditional-is-modern.net/nepal.html.

Letter From The Executive Director

2/24/2017

2016 was certainly eventful and 2017 has already proven to be very productive!

The most recent trip to the NSP villages in the Kavre District was very uplifting. The main objectives this year were to:

commence the building of a new school using the earthquake resistant technology of gabion banding.
review the new latrines that had been constructed over the last year
visit the new water installations
deliver clothing the t village children.

We were in Nepal for 18 days, 7 of which were in the villages. The remaining time was spent in planning sessions with our local people and purchasing materials for the building of the school in the village of Thulo Baspur.

The group consisted of Fran Lloyd, Executive Director of NSP, Davie Jackson (Vice chair SP) , Judy McIntryre and Rovert Raffin, both donors and fundraisers from Edmonton. Randolph Langenbach, the inventor of gabion banding and John Vavruska, the builder of the first school in Nepal using gabion banding also joined us in Nepal. The Nepal School Projects members in Nepal – Rakam, Babulal, Kinsang and Sanchaman accompanied the group. Suraj (my lifeline translated for us and one of our locally sponsored students acted as a translator on the trip to the villages when we divided into two groups. Keshev’s English and translating abilities were amazing. One group remained in the village to supervise the training of the local masons in gabion banding methods, the other group transported the clothing to the local school children and visited the new latrine and water installations. One of the water projects brought water 6000 metres and serviced 68 families. The villagers were very appreciative of all that we had accomplished over the last year.

But none of this would be possible without the continuing support from our lowly donors. NSP welcomes a new fundraising group, Foress Sandal manor, a private elementary school in England. The students there were able to raise money through a bake sale and Christmas concert. View the video on the website. Thanks to Judy Cochand and her staff and students for a huge effort. And…..thank you so much for each of your contributions over the last year. NSP will continue to move forward and look forward to being able to report further progress in 1017.

We wish you and your loved ones a healthy and prosperous New Year.

Namaste
Fran Lloyd
Executive Director
Nepal School Projects

Fundraising Bake Sale Led by the Students at Forres Sandle Manor School!

1/29/2017

Students at the Forres Sandle Manor school in UK hosted an incredible bake sale for Nepal School Projects that raised a whopping £668! This demonstrates how Nepal School Projects can capture the hearts of young and old alike across the world. For more information about the bake sale, including how the students were engaged and what it looked like in action, click on the links below! If you are interesting in getting students involved in your community, please contact NSP at info.nepalschoolprojects@gmail.com.

THANK YOU FORRES SANDLE MANOR! NSP greatly appreciates your efforts and your actions will make a meaningful and lasting impact on the life of students in Nepal.

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www.fsmschool.com/media/news/article/236/The-Great-FSM-Bake-Off-for-the-Nepal-School-Projects

New Earthquake Resistant School Construction Underway!

12/14/2016

The school construction team is working hard to rebuild the school in Thulo Baspur using gabion banding-a material that will ensure the school can withstand earthquakes and other natural disasters. Gabion bands have been adapted from an existing idea called gabion walls, which are installed to prevent shoreline erosion and to shore up steep banks along highways. In constructing the schools, the gabion bands (baskets of rocks) become part of the wall structure, allowing more flexibility during an earthquake.