www.okhle.org.uk/
Okhle Village Trust was set up in 2003 by Richard Backwell MBE, a retired teacher and expedition leader from the UK, and is coordinated in Nepal by the local trekking guide Bimal Gurung.
The Trust provides funding, equipment and expert assistance to support a variety of projects led by local village communities in a cluster of villages in the Mahabharat hills of Northern Nepal.
Okhle Village Trust aims to support and enrich the efforts of local communities in improving their own local infrastructure, education opportunities and social welfare in both a sustainable and ethical way.
Projects to date have focused on water supplies, access roads, education and social development. See the Projects section of this website for further details on individual projects.
In 2010 Okhle Village Trust was formally registered as a UK Charity
Okhle Village Trust, UK Registered Charity No. XT26588
Saturday 10 March 2012
About Us
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.
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.
Mothers committees
English language course
£72.00 was given to Suk Bahadurrana to help fund an English language education course and accommodation in Kathmandu .
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