”It is not possible to stay inside the room due to the snow leaking from the roof and the severe cold of the frost. It is very difficult for us on a day when it rains with snow.”
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Both the earthquake-damaged buildings are dilapidated, snow-melt water falls hotly from the rusted zinc sheets. It is cold to endure in the classroom. On Tuesday morning, because of the bright sun, stones were thrown on the thick snow in the school yard, the children sat on the stones.
The teacher, Juna Dhami Rawat, wore a mask of a head and started teaching the children of class three with her 7-month-old daughter on her chest.
The children who were reading with books in their hands, the teacher who was teaching and the baby girl who was clinging to her chest were all shivering with cold. This is the pictorial description of Siddheshwari Orphan, Disadvantaged and Tribal Basic School in Budhinanda Municipality-9 Porkhe Lake, Bajura. The night is more difficult for them than the day. Because the housing of these poor children is also here.
"Thick snow fell in Porkhe area from Sunday night, on Monday and Tuesday we had to teach by placing stones on top of that thick snow," said teacher Rawat. It is not possible to stay inside the room in the bitter cold of snow and frost leaking from the roof. On a day when it rains with snow, it is very difficult for all of us.
The school has two buildings. Two buildings covered with zinc sheets built in 062 and another building covered with zinc sheets built in 067. There is no concrete building in the school which teaches up to class 5. The walls of both the dilapidated buildings have cracked due to repeated earthquakes.
Most of the children studying in Siddheswari in the Dapk area of Porkhe Lake, where most of the Bhote community lives, belong to the Bhote community. Headmaster Tula Bahadur Rawat said that 66 children were kept as residential in the school where 115 children are studying. Among the children living in the school, there are 10 orphans, five boys and five girls. Similarly, 15 children including 9 male and 6 female students are from Haliya community. Although
is a residential school, there is no separate building for the children to live in. Inside the two-room building built in 062, four rooms have been made with wooden fences. "We teach in the same room during the day and sleep in the same room at night," said Principal Rawat. 'Seven months old daughter
There is a situation where you have to teach by yourself,'' said Rawat, a teacher who is getting a monthly salary of 6,000 from private sources. Sheep rearing is the main occupation of the residents here. Due to grazing problem, they take sheep to Aul area of Bajura, Acham and Doti in winter. They return to the village in March after the cold weather subsides. "About 90 percent of the school's parents have already closed the doors of their homes," said Premsingh Gurung, the chairman of the school management committee, "they have left the children in charge of the school." He was deprived of education. Parents here used to go to school in winter with their sheep and take their children with them. To solve that problem, the school was made residential in 079 due to the community's activism.
