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There were three parent’s orientations were given in the year 2022. One in Jaya Bageshowri women center which is located at Galthum, Sindhupalchowk, another one was in Indrawati Women’s Center which is located at, Katunje, Kavre and last one was at Kavre Regional Center. Both of the women centers were built by NJSI. The parent’s orientations were aimed at conscientizing the parents about the Psycho-socio development of the children at their growing age. How to understand and monitor a child’s behavior in order to help the child in difficulties and problems. Our resource person, Ms. Rama Karki, a senior psychologist and have been working with SOS children’s village for many years. She is presently the care taker of the SOS Special children’s village at Jorpatti, Kathmandu.
The parent’s orientation is often coupled with Paralegal training as well. This includes teaching of the constitutional provisions for women and child care in the new democratic change over in Nepal. It is quite a unique phenomenon that in most of our parent’s orientation and paralegal training program mostly women, generally the mothers participate. It is understood in the context that when the men are mostly out looking for job, the women stay back home and look after the property and the children. So, it is very important to educate the women in villages so that there is more awareness and knowledge towards the need for proper education and development of the children for creating better citizens for the future of Nepal.

NJSI team headed to Shree Bhumi Basic School on 23rd June, 2023 to provide track-suit for 128 students. The school is located at Lukum village which is at Rukum district. The school runs the classes from ECD to 8. The village lays on the foot of high mountains, the people have their own culture, language and identity. The houses are made in a village style which are years old. Till a decade ago, there were no road but now the road has brought a huge change in the life of villagers. The students come from very poor family background. The school is 35 years old, It was establish in 2045 B.S. The students were very happy after receiving the new clothes, track suit and the school Management Committee was thankful for the support from NJSI team.

To mark the auspicious day of NJSI on 19th May, 2022, NJSI celebrated by distributing 30 summer blankets to the visually impaired ones from Bright Star Society. NJSI was establish in 2015, May 19th after the massive earthquake in Nepal. It was established by Nepal Jesuit Society (NJS). We celebrated our 7 years of working in relief, recovery and rehabilitation sectors.

A combined school Eco club meet and a Personality development camp was held at Kavre Regional Centre. The program was for three days from 5th to 7th April, 2022 And 35 children from nearly 10 schools participated in the program.
The Eco-meet was focusing on the dangers of the use of pesticide in Agriculture. The students were given inputs by Mr. MC Pereira, the agriculturists on our team led the sessions. The Personality Development program was initiated by Fr. Roy giving the session of the self-discovery and identity establishment with exercises on Critical thinking. Fr. Mathew gave training on time management and professional student behavior.

The students they had discussions and chart preparation based on the theme of Pesticide use and its dangers in Agriculture. On the final day the participants presented their findings in chart form to about 100 students came from the nearby schools as audience. The final day, the local government representatives and the director of the agricultural department Mr. Ishowr was present and gave inputs to the student participants. The students were accompanied by the teachers.
Six volunteers from St. Xaviers College came to help the students and did a lot of help inorganizing and conducting the various items of the program.

After signing the MoU between the Nepal Jesuit Region and the International Federation of Fe y Alegria in November 2022, this was the first invitation to NJSI to participate as a developing member of the Federation of FeyA. Even though We were invited by Entreculturas to participate in two world conference of FeyA at Madrid in the preceding years, this was the first time NJSI took part in the assembly held in Columbia for the board of directors and the and the national directors. Fr. Roy Sebatin, SJ as the National director and Fr. Agustus Ekka, SJ as the delegate had the privilege to participate in the Assembly from March 21st to 24th, 2022.

This was a unique experience for us to know the people involved in the Education Improvement program in Latin America, Africa, East Asia and Europe. There were many Latin American countries with similar socio-Political situation like that of Nepal. Fe y A with the 50 years of the experience has developed remarkable strategy and modules to work in collaboration with the local government and bring quality education the rural and urban population that are poor and marginalized.

We also had the opportunity to visit many Fe y A schools in Columbia, well-furnished with educational infrastructure and curriculum. The remarkable even of the Celebration of the 50th anniversary of Fe y A Columbia was colored by the Eucharist and the felicitation. It was a great joy and heart warming to see the Nepali Flag was brought in with other countriesdd and placed in the hall for the first time.

 

 

 

After two years of lockdown situation, we finally got two guests from abroad. Pillar Lopez Dafonte, Coordinator of South Asian Desk of Xavier Network, and Fr. Carlos Fritzen,SJ, Coordinate General of International Federation of Fe Y Alegria, arrived in Nepal on 16th Nov. The purpose of Pilar’s visit was combined with monitoring and initiating the process of evaluation and final reporting procedures of the Xavier Network funded earthquake relief projects. Fr. Carlos came to experience the context and ground been prepared for initiation of Fe y Alegria Nepal. NJSI was privileged to welcome them at this time and made use of their honorable and valuable presence to Inaugurate the Kavre Regional Center and to Initiate Fe y Alegria Nepal, by officially signing the MoU with the International Federation of Fe y Alegria.