Bardibas, Mahottari
BLIND HOSTEL

The Shree Janata Secondary School in the municipality of Bardibas is a comprehensive school that teaches a total of 1,900 children and young people from kindergarten to grade 12. The school has a total of eight rooms spread over two floors. It is therefore bursting at the seams and can only teach in shifts. Of the pupils who attend the school, 12 children are blind. They live on the school grounds in their own boarding school, which consists of two small rooms and is very cramped. However, it is particularly important for blind children that everything has a fixed place so that they can find their way around independently and autonomously. This is hardly possible in the overcrowded rooms.

The school has let the boarding school use the rooms, but urgently needs them itself to accommodate the large number of pupils. Both the school and the boarding school are far too small for their purposes!

Chay Ya would therefore like to build a new boarding school for the blind children. It is to extend over two floors and have a total of 8 rooms. Three teachers and two caregivers will look after the children’s academic and physical well-being.

The children will finally have enough space in their bedrooms and will now also have a common lounge and sufficient classrooms. There are many blind children in the region. There would therefore be nothing to stop more pupils in need being admitted!

A playground and a motor skills park are also to be built next to the new building. The playground will be available to all younger children at the school as a place to move around and let off steam, as there is currently no sheltered place for this.

The motor skills park with various training stations (such as a balance beam) is intended to help the blind children develop a good sense of orientation and train their mobility. The aim is for the children to develop enough self-confidence in their own abilities to be able to go through life independently later on. Only in this way, by empowering people with disabilities, can the stigma surrounding disability in Nepal be dispelled in the long term.

The government has pledged to cover 15 % of the construction costs.