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TEAM Young fro the Younger - Education Project
TEAM Young for the Younger, ensuring the quality, continuity and equality in Education for every children of Nepal.
| Project title : | Little Angles |
| Program Title | TEAM for Education |
| Specific objectives: | To ensure quality, equality and regularity on education in Safe and pleasant environment through a sustainable community Schools. |
| Direct Beneficiaries: | School children of Terse Secondary School aged 4 – 21 and targeted 2000 students every year. |
| Target sites: | Sindhupalchowk District and Other rural Schools |
| Duration: | 1 project cycle = 1 academic year |
Overviews
Nepal is among the poorest and least developed countries in the world with 42% of its population living below the poverty line. It is a landlocked country. Nepal is one of the Developing Country having very low per capital income and least employment opportunities so the family couldn’t afford education to all of their family member. Out of 27.7 million population (growth rate 1.9%), almost 56 percent of them are uneducated, and more then 80% of children even in this context are out of quality education. which shows there is a need of speedy construction, expansions, quality improvement, equality in education whether that is a commercial private school or a government School. One third of total population are the school aged children and many of them do not have access to the basic education. The condition of Children in Talamarang was almost same, thus we have decided to work on Terse Secondary School, one of the Community School situated in Sindhupalchock District of Nepal. We believe on the satisfaction we will get from helping people when feeling unhappy.
People can hardly Invest 3.4% of their income in education and the actual situation of a teacher is covering 36 students. Nepal has almost lowest per capital income figuring US$272.4 (2005). Where GDP contribution from agriculture is 38.20% (2005) with implementation of 79% of total manpower in the sector(2005). There is also very high unemployment rate due to lack of enough infrastructure development and not suitable environment for multinational manufacturing industries. The international community's role of funding more than 60% of Nepal's development budget and more than 28% of total budgetary expenditures will likely continue as a major ingredient of growth life expectancy 62.7 years.
Statistics of School Children
According to the research, total literacy rate is 47.9% (2005), where as only 29.9% of the female are in that level of literacy and 64.7% of male population are literate. And it is also shown in the report that fertility rate is 3.5:1 means a women gives birth to three and half children in average and provide all their basic needs, which became impossible in many families having lowest per capital income thus the problem of lack of education and in many cases the start of street life became their final choices.
It is reported that at least 500 children have died during the decade long conflict related violence since 1996. The true number of children killed is likely to be far higher then this figure. Nepal has been gripped by a brutal internal armed conflict between the security forces and Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) rebels for the last 11 years, during which more than 13,000 people have lost their lives and many lost their relatives and business so as the child become orphan. It is estimated that since the beginning of the conflict the CPN (Maoist) have abducted tens of thousands of school children, along with their teachers, for "political education" sessions. Typically, (Maoist) cadres enter a high school and force all the students and teachers to accompany them to a remote location where hundreds of children from across the area are forcibly gathered for these sessions. In July 2005 the International Labour Organisation (ILO) predicted that between 10,000 and 15,000 children would be displaced in Nepal during 2005 alone. A survey in 1997 estimated that there were 261,000 children working for wages in Nepal. It is estimated that at least 1 million children in Nepal are working as child labourers in difficult circumstances, often as slaves in carpet factories, brick kilns, domestic service, agriculture, plantations, construction sites, transportation industry, stone quarries, and mines and as migrant workers. It is estimated that at least 10,600 children are working as domestics in Kathmandu, Bhaktapur and Lalitpur in valley and over 31,000 are in the 33 municipalities of Nepal. The study findings estimated that 12,000 children are trafficked every year from Nepal. The trafficking of children is a considerable problem. While accurate numbers are not available, it is estimated that 6,000 to 8,000 Nepalese girls are annually trafficked out of Nepal to India between the age of 9 and 16, which is increasing every year. A survey sponsored by the Central Social Welfare Board indicated that the population of Nepalese women and child victims of commercial sexual exploitation in Indian brothels would be around 70,000 to 100,000, of which 30% were below 18 and 40% were induced when they were below 18 years of age.
Government Education Policy
Government is putting very little effort on increasing the level of literacy rates so many community school running 10th classes has to depend on 3 or 4 government paid teachers and continuous donation of volunteers and or the part of development budget of the village. Poor children are suffering the most from the government inability to fund school supplies and required number of teachers. The financing stability of those schools are very poor because of regular heavy payments to the teachers and staff salary and other running expenses.
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Provide the true meaning of education and give every student the chance to develop themselves the best in the society and also on the field of his/her interest.
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To improve teaching standards through quality education and capacity building among the teachers.
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To increase literacy rates in the Sndhupalchowk district and other Rural parts of Nepal.
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To ensure the stability of the Terse Secondary School and other community schools.
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To increase the health and vitality of school aged children at Terse Secondary School
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To encourage education for every children focusing ethnic communities and the female population
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To increase the Government quota of current teaching staff for Terse Secondary School.
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To ensure the safety of school aged children at Terse Secondary School.
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To effectively reduce poverty in the Talamarang and surrounding VDCs, Sindhupalchowk District.
TEAM Nepal and the Terse Secondary School have quite a successful working partnership. Over the past years projects have been collaborate that involved both the expertise of both Terse Secondary Shcool and TEAM Nepal. TEAM young for the younger is a project that has been identified by both Nepalese and foreign social workers, some college students, professionals and stakeholders of the school themselves to fulfil the immediate needs of the schools. The agreement stands that volunteering services, managerial services and financing assistance for the school buildings and infrastructure will be provided by TEAM Nepal while Terse School will in turn implement the decision in best way as per the agreement and focus on the quality education through the recruitment of qualified teaching staffs. From the outset of the project the Children that were acknowledged as to be given priority are from different backed casts and ethnic group.
With this in mind and also considering the principles and mission of TEAM Nepal an Implementation strategy was formulated in the following way:
1. Contacting partner the Terse School on support for the data needed and also their very urgent need in the school.
2. Identification of Educational institutions and formalising of partnership agreements.
3. Organization of International Volunteers identified through the TEAM Nepal volunteer structure.
4. Assistance on improving the quality of education through regular field visit, supervision and periodical evaluation of the progress report.
5. Assessing over the life of the project the immediate and long term advisory and managerial needs of the School.
It is expected that each program will operate within a time period of between 6months to one year in each of the educational institutions identified according to each institutions size a timetable.
It is also expected that through out the project cycle, new educational institutions having similar or even worse condition will be identified and conversely absorbed into the improvement assessment timeframe. There is a target that by 2010; 10 schools situated in and out of the Sindhupalchowk and surrounding districts will become involved with the project.
We place volunteers in rural elementary schools an hour outside of Kathmandu to assist the local teachers with their English classes and other subjects. These volunteers are able to experience living in rural villages and will observe the true meaning of
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Identify, consult and finalise the actual and serious problems of the schools.
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Identify, consult and finalise the donors or arrange the fund for the school.
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Identify and arrange the volunteers for short term volunteering in the schools.
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Provide necessary training to the volunteers.
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Provide different educational materials for the school.
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Conduct workshops in the school for mind development of the children and organizing their writing style, improve critical thinking, and mind development activities.
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Regular and periodical evaluation of the school performance and improvement in quality.
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10,000 school aged Children in Sindhupalchowk district will be directly benefited form a quality education and a educated society is constructed with quality education.
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New number of school joining Childs has been effectively increased and illiteracy rate has been decreased in the district.
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Long-term continuous benefit for the children of the area is possible and many children and their family will be benefited.
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Social and economic development of the student, school and society is constructed through a educated people in the future.
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School absenteeism rates due to bad school environment is decreased.
TEAM young for the younger is intended to be a long lasting project, one that is maintained through constant relations with project partners, use of local knowledge and local resources. It is through this that the Children will receive periodic medical assessments on site throughout the school year. Sustainability of the project throughout the years thus implies effective achievement of the proposed objectives.
Furthermore sustainability of healthy living beyond the school years, will be achieved through personal capacity building on the ways of hygienic living and food preparation best practice. It is the intention of the project cycle that while the Children may grow up and leave the auspice of the provided medical assessments, the knowledge they have gathered through the project life will allow them to take control of their own medical destiny throughout their adult years.
Sustainability for project inception is granted through TEAM Nepal funds.
Fundraising for future sustainability is already active. Where private funding should not be sufficient, TEAM Nepal will guarantee autonomously for project costs through a series of projects currently in implementation and aiming at providing for the NGO’s sustainability.
Territorial sustainability
This project is intended to be self-sustainable for what concerns the Children’s attendance to their educational institutions. Through MOUs defined with the various partner institutions, TEAM Nepal will continue monitoring, providing assistance, and granting for necessary medical equipment, transport for medical staff to and from the project site as well as any medical fees that may occur due to the Children’s hospitalisation.
The project includes a monitoring and evaluation team which shall perform regular assessments of the activities, achievement of the expected outputs, audit and effective budget expenditures as part of a lesson-learning process.
All monitoring activities will be centred on the operation of the medical assessments, the success and shortcomings of said assessments as well as indicators on the health, vitality and overall responsiveness of the Children to the project
Monitoring and evaluation shall be carried out as follows:
1. Monitoring and follow up
General monitoring shall be conducted by project staff: namely medical volunteers of TEAM Nepaland any other additional staff that may attend the medical assessments. This shall be also conducted with the full collaboration of project partners and shall occur by weekly during the implementation cycle.
A Progress Report, will then be prepared by a monitoring team who will visit the medical assessment activities during the 2nd month of project implementation.
Sentinel monitoring conducted through intermittent but constant data collection from project partners, field medical staff as well as the Children ‘s educational institutions.
2. Internal Evaluation
· Regular evaluation reporting performed on a yearly basis by an evaluation team consisting of TEAM Nepalstaff as well as other relevant stakeholders. It will contain:
- Assessment of progress and performance Indicated by data collected over the yearly timeframe, by participatory reports, observations, statistical data as well as other collection methods
- Evaluation summary
- Impact evaluation A reflection on the impact before and after the inception of the project implementation.
3. External Evaluation
· Meetings and interviews with project partners and the educational facility assuring conduction coordination, achievement of outputs and impact on the Children.
· Review, analyses and quality control of relevant project documentation of the internal evaluation reports
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