Many children in the village never went to school before, because their parents wanted them to work on the farm or because they couldn’t afford the school costs. This applies mostly to minority groups. Tukee Nepal Society not only pays the school fee but also carries the costs for books, pens and school dresses. The students receive every year a new dress that includes winter sweater and socks, which means they can keep the old one and use it at home. Therefore parents don’t need to buy extra clothes, which is a good reason to convince them to send their children to school.

Tukee Nepal Society sponsored 30 students which already finished their education, 2 of them found a job. We are trying our best to find an employment for those who finished their education.

Currently a total of 260 students are getting a sponsorship for primary school, high school and university.

For the future it is planned to enable many more students to participate in school, both high school and university. Many students finish primary school, and then stop studying because their parents don’t have the money to send them to secondary school or university as it is more expensive. Tukee Nepal Society is looking for more sponsors both to continue the children’s studying who had to stop, but also to support more children who didn’t go to school at all. Many families in Jyamrung and neighboring villages don’t have the resources that allow them to send their children to school. In the near future more kids should be able to attend classes.

Education for the old generation:

In Nepal approx. 42% of its inhabitants are literate and 20% are educated. So Tukee Nepal Society started 6-months education courses for older people who have never been to school. Several courses were held in the evenings where they learnt in older education classes’ how to read and write, which they can now do passably. This project was not only to integrate them into society and that they are able to recognize and count money, but also to encourage them to send their own kids to school. Now they are even able to read letters their older sons sent them from the city, before they had to give those letters to other people in the village who then had to read it out for them.

School building:

Some of the education fund was also used to build more school buildings since the governments financial support is not enough. Children had to study under a tree or on an open ground because there were not enough classrooms. Now a total of 4 new buildings were built. But many school buildings require to be replaced since they are antiquated. Currently buildings in 10 more schools need to be renewed.

Teacher sponsoring:

Another part of the fund went into supplying more teachers since the village needed more than twice as many as the government provided. As they don’t supply enough tutors the villagers had to pay the teachers salary which they couldn’t afford. So far 7 or 8 teacher were sponsored in different schools, their support is still running. Schools already request more tutors because currently more students attend classes, so sponsorship is needed. Therefore Tukee Nepal Society supports the employment of those additional teachers.

Library:

There was no library in the school, giving extra knowledge to students, teachers or local people. Tukee Nepal Society supported a library building, now filled with both national and international books about poems, political affairs, agriculture, novels or books related to student class books. Some literature is even from tourist who left their English books in the village, other books in Nepali were bought in Kathmandu. Sponsorship is needed to start more libraries in different villages and to buy more books for all of them.