There are 42 students from the Chepang community at Dautes National Basic School, which offers education from early childhood development to grade 3.
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'Spandan Nepal', a women's organization of Bharatpur Metropolitan City-10, has distributed warm clothes, stationery, and sports equipment to school children in Siddhi Dautes Village, Kalika Municipality-11.
Every year, as the cold weather sets in, the organization, which has been distributing warm clothes to Chepang village, distributed warm clothes, stationery and sports equipment to students studying in a school in Siddhi Dautes village in Kalika-11, a hilly area of the district, on Saturday.
There are 42 students from the Chepang community at the Dautes National Basic School, which offers classes from early childhood development to grade 3.
Spandan, which provides assistance to schools and communities in remote villages every year, remembered the children of Dautes School this time during the cold season, said chairperson Anita Khanal.
According to school principal Khadka Chepang, students come to Dautes School even after walking for two hours. After passing grade three, they have to go to Rantes or Bangthala School and walk for two hours to get there, said Principal Chepang. After passing grade five, they have to go to schools in Siddhi’s Tin Dobhan or Shaktikhor Bazaar for further studies. They cannot travel from home without studying there.
There is also a shortage of food in the village, which has barely reached the dirt road. Nanumaya, mother of Samiksha Chepang, a student in grade 1, said that even though drinking water is provided by lifting it from solar panels, it is not reliable and she is forced to carry water on her head.
Earlier, the organization's chairperson Khanal said that warm clothes have been distributed to six schools in the hilly areas of Siddhi area. She said that the organization has also been organizing health camps targeted at women and children.
Chairwoman Khanal said that the women affiliated with the organization have been conducting support programs by raising funds personally. The organization mostly includes women from Bharatpur Heights area in Bharatpur-10. Initially, 10 women were affiliated with the organization, but now women from Bharatpur-11 have also been included, and the number of members has reached 25, said Secretary Bimala Dahal.
