Human Care & Education e.V.

January
As the number of Covid 19 cases also slowly declines in Nepal, the full impact on the poorest of the poor is only beginning to be seen. Many people have left their villages and moved to Kathmandu. Others have been unable to resist the call of “enslavement” on construction sites in Qatar and elsewhere. For many survivors of Covid-19, this means that now hospital bills and medicines must be paid privately, as there is no health insurance….

February/ March 2022
Nepal is waking up to welcome its first trekking tourists. Many places are still closed and some lodges and restaurants in the mountains have not survived the lockdown.
Provisional plans are becoming more concrete. Will we be able to go to Nepal again this year and visit the two projects on site after an absence of 2 years? Since almost no tourists came to these areas over 18 months, the spread of the Corona virus in the mountains is low…

April 2022
After months of total lockdown, the Nepalese government has decided to slowly reopen schools across the country, both in Kathmandu and in the high mountains. This of course also means almost no income for the locals, as trekking, and tours have been stopped and tea houses remained closed. The worst hit were the children: with no school for more than six months, the children, even the smallest ones, were obliged to work long hours in the fields to help their families’ harvest.
Now they can have an opportunity to learn in school again and prepare for their future with the help of education. Not everything has been achieved yet, but we are on the right track! Our goal now is to bring sponsors to Nepal to support us in providing food, shelter and basic education

May 2022
From 60 students (in January), the number of children in Serang has now increased to 87, and we continue to take in new children as the state does not provide any alternatives.
Waiting for better economic times or government school projects in the region seems unrealistic, and it risks leaving many children and those in need of protection to grow up without an education and thus without a real chance of a self-determined and fulfilling life, where instead they would be obliged to work as untrained day labourers in Nepal, Qatar or elsewhere.

What guides us: We therefore continue to see our mission in the sense of the association as guaranteeing an education for the orphans. This requires an adequate response to the prevailing conditions and support for projects within the scope of our available resources.

It has become clear to everyone: A second school has to be built and we have already laid the foundation stone.

Why are we supporting the construction of an elementary school in Bihi?
The existing school in Serang was originally planned for 60 school children. Sufficient teaching material, equipment and teachers are available to provide for such a number an adequate school education at an appropriate standard – and at an altitude of 3,500 m!
In 2015, the school opened with 37 children, mainly orphans and children who had been accommodated in the Serang Monastery after the earthquake.

Read the article: Sachsenringer unterstützen bemerkenswertes soziales Hilfsprojekt im Himalaya in Nepal
Read the article: Trekking zum Kloster Serang und zur Serang Basic School: der Weg zu den Kindern und zu mir selbst

June-August 2022
What has happened so far?
After the laying of the foundation stone for the new school in Bihi in May, things have not really progressed much: lack of materials, rising prices and, of course, the geographical conditions have greatly slowed down construction work. In particular, the four-week-long monsoon has washed away parts of the site, and this makes specific and timely structural reinforcements of the subsoil essential if we are to prevent further damage.
Concrete and steel are essential for the construction of earthquake-resistant buildings. Energy price increase since the beginning of the war in Ukraine: 500%

October/November 2022
After many discussions with our local partners, with building contractors and the architect of the school at 3,500 m in Serang, work on a solution has now commenced:
According to current planning, the costs of building the school will total EUR 180,000-200,000. We are now obliged to cover 60% of these costs in order to start construction work at the school and, above all, to secure the site adequately. The first sponsors have already been found, and a private lender has also come forward. But we also urgently need your help before we can approach further potential sponsors and gain their support for this project.

Only with your active assistance can we succeed.

The construction work should be completed in July 2023, so that at least 40 children from the upper school (preschool, grades 1 & 2) can attend the new school all year round. More needy orphans from the region will arrive in the coming years.

Read the article: Sachsenringer unterstützen bemerkenswertes soziales Hilfsprojekt im Himalaya in Nepal
Read the article: Tränen in den Augen

November/December 2022

On 15 November 2022 the entire population of Bihi village were present when the foundation stone for the new building was laid as part of a major Buddhist ceremony (Puja), after the destruction wrought by the monsoon. This ritual serves to protect the construction site and the new buildings, as well as the workers and ultimately all those connected with the project …
You will find attached some pictures from our last visit in October 2022, as well as pictures and diagrams illustrating the school construction in Bihi.

Building the school in Bihi requires a lot of perseverance, courage and effort from all of us, but above all from the children, teachers and the Serang monastery. We consider it essential that financial contributions be made if we are to guarantee continued education at the existing school in Serang for the children there.

And that should give us hope. Hope that when we look to the future, we will never doubt what we can achieve together, because together we are capable of more than we ever imagined.

Confidence, a positive attitude and trust will be more than just slogans once we have anchored them within ourselves and incorporated them in our daily lives.

December 2022

And this is a great success of our work for the project in India. December 2021: Just before Christmas, forty women from six villages who had been trained in sewing at the Mercy & Grace Training Centre in Andra Pradesh in India each received donation of their own sewing machine. This enables the women to work, earn money and use the income for their children’s schooling and other family needs.
And the Shining Glory Church multi-generational home in Kathmandu is now stronger than ever. Home schooling has worked well, not least due to our funding for hardware and software for computers, as well as ongoing training. But since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the prices of food, fuel, gas, etc. have gone up by 250%, so we are not done yet!

And that should give us hope. Hope that when we look to the future, we will never doubt what we can achieve together, because together we are capable of more than we ever imagined.

Confidence, a positive attitude and trust will be more than just slogans once we have anchored them within ourselves and incorporated them in our daily lives.

“Human Care & Education helps children in Nepal and India to achieve a good level of schooling. This enables them to lead a financially secure life in society. Only when this is achieved is educational justice truly guaranteed.”

We thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
Dominik, Thomas and the entire Human Care & Education team.