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Humla is one of the farthest least developed far western districts in Nepal bordering with China. Karpunath is the village where the Mandara High School where  NJSI took the chance of establishing the Education Smart hub. There are no connecting roads reaching to that location from the major highways of Western Nepal. The only way to reach there was to take a flight to Simikot, the nearest Airport and Headquarters of the Humla district. Fr. Roy Sebastian, SJ lead the team including Kamal Shrestha and Ramhari Tapa Magar carrying the 55 inch android television, the TV box, the educational tablet and the necessary tools for the installation.

The journey took about 1:15 hours of flight in a local aircraft that went between the hills with only three of us as the passengers. (They were going to get a group of Buddhist monks who had chartered the flight.) There was about 45 minutes of vehicle ride from the airport this was followed by a walk of nearly 2 and half hours.
Mandara school educate children coming from 3 to 4 hours of walk away. Therefore the SLC students stay back in the school in a small hostel like facility where they cook their own food and eat before attending the schools. Ethnicity of the school is comprised of 202 students in total
The parents are agrarian folks and have goats and cows as major investments.
Due to the unwarned snow fall, the team had to stay back in Simikot for a couple of days before they could get a flight back.

Nepal Jesuit Social Institute Constructed “Lift Irrigation Project” for the people of Khadadevi Rural Municipality, ward no.1, Ramechhap.  NJSI Constructed two big reservoir tanks, one of 200000 Liters of  tank and another of 18000 Liters along with well at the river side of 10.6m depth. For the distribution of the water 1600m horizontal length and 400m vertical height of pipe was placed with 34 stations.  The whole village was facing water problem as the village lies in rain shadow area.

They were unable to grow foods and crops due to dry land. On 28th Dec, 2020 the project was inaugurated and handed over to the local people in the presence of chairman and some representatives of Khadadevi Rural Municipality and local people. This project was funded by Xavier Network and Caritas Italiana. The program was carried out with few dances by children, speech from chairman, representatives, regional director and director of NJSI. Local people were very Thankful to NJSI and the donors.

 

Nepal Jesuit Social Institute handed over a two classroom building  and Furniture along with Early Childhood Development (ECD) materials to Shree Adarsha Basic School located in Jugal Rural Municipality-04, Pangtang village on 13th March 2020. The school did not have enough classroom for students since the Earthquake of 2015. The project was funded by Caritas Germany.

The team from NJSI and Mr.Richard Rai, representatives of Caritas Germany, School Management Committee, Vice-Mayor of the Jugal Rural municipality, ward chairperson, students and  local people were present at the function. The program was carried out with few cultural performances, speeches from representatives and inauguration and handing over.

Local people were very grateful to NJSI and Caritas Germany for the support provided to the school for the benefit of their children.

 

With the objective of making women aware about their rights and helping them to understand their child’s psychological development, the para-legal workshop and parents orientation program was organised.This paralegal workshop was conducted at Kunta Besi Mahila Shasaktikaran Samuha located at Kunta, Kavre on 3rd and 4th of March 2020. The  program was conducted at women center built by NJSI. The community and the target group included women from Brahmin, Chhetri and Newar community.

The number of participants were 32 in total. The training program was conducted by Darsana Rai (Activity co-ordinator, NJSI) and Seliska Maharjhan (Intern from St. Xavier’s College) on the topics of fundamental rights, gender-based violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights.  All the participants received the handbook compiled by NJSI on the basic of Constitution of Nepal 2072. The women were also given sessions of parent’s orientation on the topic of  parent-child relationship and the effects of parenting style on children. Some of the videos were shown to relate the topics which would help them understand better. The program was marked end with certificate distribution and experience sharing.

NJSI was happy to welcome the provincials of Jesuit Conference of South-Asia  (JCSA), along with Fr.Anthony Corcoran SJ; Apostolic administrator to Kyrgyzstan and Fr. Frank Janin SJ; President of Conference of Europian Provincials to NJSI office on 28th February 2020 evening. The group was present in Kathmandu for a week long meeting of JCSA along with the visit of Fr. General to Nepal. NJSI had the opportunity to share about the earthquake relief activities with the guests. The one hour program included the sharing and cultural performances by the alumni of NJSI computer trainees from the St. Annes Institute, followed by cultural dance from NJSI staffs.

The newly released magazine of NJSI was distributed to the provincials. There was a  fruitful interaction between the guests and the NJSI and St.Annes Staffs. The program came to an end after the delicious dinner together at Kamal Niwas.The provincials were very happy and applauded the activities of NJSI.

It was a great pleasure of all the Jesuits Institutions to welcome Reverent Fr. Arturo Sosa SJ; Superior General of the Society of Jesus,  Reverent Fr. Dauglas W. Marcouiller SJ; (United States Central Southern province) Regional Assistant for Canada, USA and Admonitor, Reverent Fr. Pierre Bilanger SJ; from communication office, General Curia. Among the various programs organised at different institutions in Kathmandu, the NJSI team had the opportunity to great and interact with Fr. General at the short gathering organised at St. Xavier’s Social Service Center on 27th February 2020.

Fr. Roy Sebastian, SJ (Director, NJSI) thanked Fr.General and his team for their immense contribution and blessing for the earthquake relief activities in Nepal through NJSI. NJSI team felicitated Fr, General and the accompanying team and with shawls by Fr. Arulanandam SJ, the Superior, bouquet by Mrs. Shristi Thapa, Administrative Director, and a momento by Mr. Tika Ram Regmi, constructor co-ordinator. Fr. General and the guests were invited to join the team of NJSI by wearing NJSI Jacket presented to them by Fr. Thomas SJ, the finance manager NJSI. Fr. General then released the book of NJSI relief activities from 2015 to 2020. The program was overwhelmingly beautiful with Reverent Fr. Aruturo Sosa and his team’s interaction with NJSI team and the children and staff of St. Xavier’s Social Service Center.