Quintessentially Foundation is proud to have helped with the building of the new Shree Sankha Devi Lower Secondary School in Nepal, a project accomplished in partnership with our associated charity, Room to Read.
Shree Sankha Devi Lower Secondary School has a total of 250 pupils, aged between four and eleven, who are taught by 10 teachers. Before restoration work by Quintessentially Foundation and Room to Read, the building was in a deplorable state. The classrooms were built of mud mortar, stone walls and mud flooring. The roof was made of corrugated sheets that constantly leaked during the rainy season which made it difficult to hold classes.
However the newly constructed building has two stories, and a total of four rooms – of which three are used as classrooms that can comfortably accommodate 55 pupils and the fourth houses a library. The exterior and interior walls have been plastered and painted and the school now has sufficient lavatory facilities with a good water supply.
The headmaster Baiju Prasad Gupta is delighted with the new building, commenting, “I’m so excited to see what my students can access in their new school. The building is great and so is the library in it.”
The students are also pleased with their new school. Samita Neupane, a sixth former said that “The rooms are far better than what we were used to in our old building. It’s spacious and we all can sit comfortably; the teacher can move about freely, and we don’t have to squint because there’s more than enough natural light in the room”.
Through Quintessentially Foundation, we are directly improving the education of hundreds of children in Nepal each year. Everyone who is associated with Quintessentially and has been kind enough to donate can be hugely proud of this achievement.
