Why a Sapana School?
The Tharu used
to live as hunter gatherers in the woods of what is now Chitwan
National Park. As the government decided in the '60 ies that
these woods would be used as a national park the Tharu, who in
the meantime had become farmers and woodcarvers, were made to
move to a different area. There they are settling now but are
deprived of their historical natural and cultural surroundings
and they are dealing with the hardships of their new living area
in a different era. They have to learn new trades to survive,
they have to adept to modern economy. They lack the skills, the
know how, the education, to do so. And in the meantime they are
loosing health, self esteem and the courage to cope with modern
society. They are confronted with 'western people' and 'western
values' and they have to learn again to trust the values of their
own and to evolve into new people from roots of their own.
Dhurba want his people to have a valuable and prosperous future.
People who are self conscious and who can make choices of their
own. Healthy and proud people who can stand up to modern society,
who are capable to take care of their own family as a part of
the economic and social developments. Shortly: self fulfilment
for everyone as a part of a prosperous Nepal within a prosperous
world economy.
Sapana School provides education
for childeren from 1 to 18 years of age.
The school is organised
in a Nursery, preparatory education in Pré-School 1 and
Pré-School 2, primairy education in groups 1 up to and
including group 5 and secondary education in groups 6 up to and
including group 10 followed by groups 11 and 12.
The entire plan is having
a school:
- also for the poorest children
in the region;
- where the children will have
a healthy and nutricious lunch, daily;
- where medical care (for the
students and also for the people in the region) will be provided
for;
- that also pays attention to
the emotional and social development of the students;
- for childeren from 1 to 18 years
old. They will get education and preparation for their future
vocational profession or their future studies at college and/or
univerisity;
- where there will be education
for grown-ups and profesional education for youngsters who did
not (yet) have the chance to go to school;
- where information will be given
about hygiène, childcare, health, ecology and things of
actual importance;
- that works from the educational
ideas of the 21st century, what is proposed by the Unesco and
shared with the Nepalese Department of Education
- that shares its ideas and ways
of working with the citysens and the schools in the region.
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