Attention 0!Ye! Kind Souls!

Nothing is impossible if one tries hard. Any job if initiated with full confidence perhaps will come to a happy completion. There have been instances when a group of men or women when begin their long and arduous journey to social services have accomplished their mission ultimately. It has rightly been said that God helps those who help themselves. God bestows his sympathy and blessings to those who think of the plights and the sufferings of the poor and the marginalised.

Nepal is undoubtedly a land inhabited by poor men and women. This country has been made poor and that not by the aliens rather by our own nationals whom we call politicians and the bureaucrats. We are poor because we are illiterate. We are poor because our government has no plans for the alleviation of poverty that is so rampant in the districts. We are poor because we have not been able to utilize our own vast potentials. We can't manage two meals a day because our men seated in cozy chairs in Singh Durbar have no time to think of us. In the process, we the Nepalese have become mentally poor.

The fact is that we have been made poor or else why should a group of women activists of Biratnagar Sub-municipality Ward Number 16 – (Bakharai--Malahanawa village) would have approached this scribe to solicit support from the Kathmandu based kind souls, national or even international.

The picture shown here is a school building meant for those kids whose parents do possess a desire to send their siblings to the school provided they is not asked any fees or whatsoever. The school which would be more close to an orphanage when completed drew the attention first of the Israel's Ambassador Avraham Nir who during his first trip to Biratnagar happpened to land in the said village. Looking at the plight of the poor children, Ambassador Nir donated a sizeable amount from his own pocket. The first brick for the school which is shown here erected came from Israel.

When the news of the first donation from Tsrael was printed in this newspaper, Russian Federation Ambassador Ivanov sent his special emissary Listopadov with a sum of yet another donation plus some clothes for the children. The second brick for the construction of the school came from the Kathmandu based Russians.

Again when this news got printed in this newspaper, the Aeroflot-RF airliner based in Kathmandu, donated a significant amount for the orphanage and thus added the third brick for the construction of the school building.

This donation drew the attention of the Sri Lankan Ambassador Ms. Pamela J. Deen who too prior to her departure from Kathmandu sent a sizeable amount for the construction of the said school.

The height of the school went up and up and stands today at the stage shown in the picture.

Needless to say, the women activists too added money from their own pockets and the structure could take a new height.

The women activists had planned to run the school prior to the monsoon, but due to the lack of the needed amount, the school could not be roof-topped. All that they need is around thirty-thirty five thousands for having a concrete rooftop. The kids could not attend their classes this monsoon for understandable reasons.

We have heard that many international donors are interested in supporting such initiatives but possess no idea which donors would be appropriate to be talked to.

We would wish if some one as an individual, or group or even kind-hearted international donors came forward and supported this noble initiative taken up as a challenge by a group of local women activists who practically possess no idea as to whom should they contact in order to get their job done.

We appeal all kind-hearted souls in Kathmandu, national or international, to remain sympathetic towards this school which if completed on time might attract more than hundred-fifty poor students from the neighboring villages. The number could grow even more.

O! Ye! Kind souls, come forward. It's not even $450—the total amount these women activists need at the moment. Your meager donation will help-support the needy kids whose parents wish to send their boys to the school but….

The school has one girl teacher whose salary is not even $6 a month. Add to this, she doesn't get the salary on a regular basis for understandable reasons.

For those kind soul who would wish to donate some amount, here is the contact address:

Mrs. Mira Devi, Chairman,
Panch Mukhi Bal Bikash Kendra
Tel: 35-259 (Add the Biratnagar area code)
Biratnagar, Ward No-16
Bakhari Village
Nepal

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