St Christopher’s-UWS builds school in Nepal

Manama: The St Christopher’s UWS school in the Gurase community in Eastern Nepal has been officially opened.

Jack Clark, School Partnership Director at the UWS, said “The school building in Gurase is complete and the community has opened the school to students! There are already 120 students enrolled, and as many as 150-180 students will attend the school once it is inaugurated.”

The Chief District Officer will open the school, which will benefit from three government teachers.

A local teacher, who had left the village with his family as a child and went to university,  has come back to take part in this project as soon as he heard that a school was being built in Gurase, according to the school authorities. 

Tim Howarth, CEO of UWS: “He is the most motivated teacher I have ever met. The teacher wants others from his village to have the opportunities he was lucky enough to receive, and to learn how to read and count.”

Several charity events have been held at the St Chris Senior School to raise funds in support of this project. The students have been working very hard to raise money to cover the costs of building, resources and supplies.

St Chris  also saw a number of superb student-led initiatives that are supporting the drive for Nepal.