{"id":7847,"date":"2016-02-28T13:38:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T07:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=7847"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:16:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:16:46","slug":"commmitted-needs-your-help-please-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/commmitted-needs-your-help-please-help\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMITTED Needs Your Help! Please Help!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Until the Megaquake<\/a> of 2015, COMMITTED<\/a> had been helping schools at our project sites with needs they identified in their SIPs<\/a> (School Improvement Plans) and with Social Business for Education<\/a> projects, namely fishery<\/a>. We had been making headway with all that as you can see from our 2013-14<\/a> and 2014-15<\/a> annual reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the earthquake, we changed our focus, providing emergency relief<\/a> soon after the calamity, later providing additional support<\/a> to the community, and planning education programs<\/a> for the children to introduce some degree of normalcy to their lives and thus helping them a little with their psychological recovery from the trauma. We are conducting music, sports, reading and writing programs<\/a> at the Temporary Learning Centers in the village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most recently, COMMITTED also began the reconstruction<\/a> of Taltuleshwori School<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lacking in funds, Taltuleshwori will NOT have all the rooms that the plan calls for but construction is slated for completion by May 2016. So for obvious reasons, we are NOT<\/strong> able to help the other schools — Raithane School, Chilaune School, Kumveshwori School<\/a> and Saat Kanya School<\/a> — with reconstruction. We just haven’t managed to raise enough funds.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…And to say nothing of the reconstruction of the 594 of the 600 houses in Thangpalkot destroyed by the megaquake<\/a> and how that has affected, and will continue to affect, the lives of the children of Thanpalkot (and others)….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We estimate that COMMITTED will need roughly US$150,000<\/strong> to fund the infrastructure-related work of all the schools.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the time Taltuleshwori School is ready for normal school, the students will have lost almost a whole year of schooling. What of the students attending the other schools? We have about 900 school-going children in Thangpalkot. 175 attend Taltuleshwori school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How much longer will the education of Thangpalkot children be disrupted?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In spite of providing hardly any assistance of note for the last ten months, leaving most of the millions of victims directly or indirectly affected by the calamity to fend for themselves firstly the unrelenting downpours of summer monsoon and secondly the brutal hill and mountain winters<\/a>, The National Reconstruction Authority (NRA), the government wing entrusted with reconstruction, today asked<\/a> “earthquake victims not to begin housing reconstruction in quake-affected districts unless the authority provides government announced aid and technical assistance.” (Have I said the State of Nepal is a State without a conscience<\/a>?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as I have already stated above, COMMITTED has already started with school reconstruction efforts in Thangpalkot. Unfortunately, donations to our cause have pretty much ceased<\/a> and funding sources appear to have pretty much dried up as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, you could still donate to our cause! Thangpalkot children still need your support!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a> or on the image below and donate to the Earthquake Funds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you can’t donate, you can still help us by promoting us! Share, on social media, this and other blog posts about our work and help us reach a wider audience and potential donors!<\/p>\n\n\n\n