WEY VALLEY SCHOOL AND SPORTS COLLEGE DEVELOPMENTS
Bayapani School 2009
For the 2009 expedition Wey Valley School from Weymouth in Dorset raised funds amounting to £500.00 for art and sport equipment together with stationary and a play parachute which proved to be great fun.
Bayapani School 2011
During 2010 Wey Valley School were pleased to forge links with Bayapani School and began to plan the 2011 expedition for Wey Valley School and Sports College students. The school committed to fund raise regularly to help support Bayapani school alongside the mother’s committees of Okhle, Raipali and Ghala and the health centre at Kot Guan.
In December 2011 under the leadership of Karen Edgeley, Jenny Boyce and Clive Burgess, 10 students aged between 15 and 16 spent 2 days at Bayapani school. They were warmly welcomed by the head teacher Sherjung Adhikary, all the teachers and students too with singing and dancing. Wey Valley had been practising their Nepalese dance routine for the previous 2 weeks and joined in the fun by giving a performance too. They also developed their communication skills by teaching landscape painting on the hillside and various sport activities to what began as a small group of students and rapidly grew into about half the school.
Wey Valley School have been fundraising for the last 2 years and donated approximately 70 blue school shirts for Bayapani school to distribute accordingly. £400.00 was donated through equipment such as school exercise books, pencils, microscope slides, art materials, volley balls and net and footballs and nursery toys.
A further £200.00 was also spent on a photocopier/printer and £90.00 on chip board and paints to divide the nursery from a classroom and a further £100.00 for labour to build this wall.
Over the last year it was good to see that two new classrooms had been built for the eldest students with the help of the government and 3 computers privately donated for staff use.
Through discussions with the head teacher about how Wey Valley School might be able to help in the future he expressed his concerns for the health and safety of the school and students due to buffalo wandering through the area because of the lack of a boundary wall. He would like to build a stone wall but the lack of water meant making cement was a problem. It became quite clear that lack of water was an issue also for the cleanliness of the toilets too. Installing a couple of water tanks under the sloping roofs and pipe work to the toilets would help to alleviate the problem. This will become the mission for Wey Valley School over the next two years. £260.00 was given to Bimal from the expedition team to put towards the start of this project with a promise of more to follow over the next few months. The plan will be to have one water tank installed before the wet season begins.
Village community progress.
The 2011 enabled Wey Valley School students to support the on going water projects by spending 2 days digging water pipe ditches at Kot Guan and space for a water tank nearer to the village itself. Actually putting in some hard physical work alongside the people of the village was an eye opening and rewarding experience leaving all feeling that they had also done something useful.
Approximately 70 blue school shirts were also donated to the Kot Guan children.
Kot Guan health centre.
Wey Valley School have been collecting bandages and spectacles since 2009 and gave these to the health centre alongside those also collected by Richard. It was encouraging to see that the Nepalese government have provided funding for the building of a new health centre which was greatly needed including a maternity room also. The footings are already in place and we will be able to see the finished outcome next time.
Mothers committees
Wey Valley School gave through funds raised £50.00 to each mother’s committee of the villages of Okhle, Raipali and Ghala. The expedition team would very much like to express their thanks for being made so welcome at each village.
English language course
£72.00 was given to Suk Bahadurrana to help fund an English language education course and accommodation in Kathmandu.
