Apart from the Kathmandu Valley, the Nepal Red Cross Society's training center in Banepa, Kavre has also been converted into a holding center and housed squatters. Currently, about 100 squatters are housed here. They range in age from 13-day-old babies to 90 years old. 28 of them are school students.

After the government used a bulldozer in the slums of Kathmandu, the slum dwellers in those slums have been kept in holding centers at various locations. The children of the slum dwellers kept in the holding centers are worried after missing their studies. Apart from the Kathmandu Valley, the Nepal Red Cross Society's training center in Banepa, Kavre has also been made a holding center and the slum dwellers are being kept there.

Currently, about 100 slum dwellers are kept here. They range in age from 13-day-old babies to 90-year-olds. 28 of them are school students. Their only concern is, 'School is also missing, friends are also missing.'

Roshni Niraula was watching the students returning home after school dismissal after 4 pm. 'If I could also go to school, I would be returning home from school right now,' she said emotionally.

Seeing students coming and going daily in front of the Red Cross training center in Budol, Banepa, where she lives, which has been converted into a holding center, Roshni thinks, ‘When will I be able to go to school? Will I be able to study as before or not?’ This confusion has been haunting her for two weeks.

Two weeks ago, a dozer was used in the slums of Manohara, Kathmandu. After the dozer destroyed her house, her studies are also in doubt. ‘After the dozer used to do the house, we were first taken to Balaju, and now they have brought us here,’ added 9-year-old Roshni, who studied up to grade 5 at Mount Save School in Narephant, ‘I have not been able to go to school since the start of the new session, and I have missed my studies for many days.’

Roshni is worried not only about her studies, but also about being separated from her school friends. She said that since Manohara left, she has not even had any friends to play with. Ruhi Giri is her best friend. Remembering Ruhi, she says, ‘After the bulldozers went to our settlement, we have become distant now, we may never meet again.’

No books/copies, no bags, no school uniform. Even going to school is not decided. This is what 13-year-old Rohan Pariyar is currently suffering from. With the start of the new academic session being less than 2 weeks away, he still has not decided whether to enroll. Having studied up to grade 6 in Kupandol, he is worried about where and how to continue his studies.

‘After the demolition of our house, we were taken to Balaju in Kathmandu, then to Banepa,’ he said, ‘Our studies deteriorated further as we were taken from time to time and from time to time. We should be able to study wherever we go, we should not miss our studies.' She said she was hoping for the day she would be able to study regularly.

Bandika Raigai used to do her school homework in the evening. Then she would go out to play. For the past 2 weeks, she has not been able to go to school or play with her friends. After the bulldozer went to the slums, her friends also missed her studies.

Raigai expressed her concern about not being able to go to school after the bulldozer went to the slums of Thapathali. 'If I had gone to school, I would have been in class 3 by now,' she said, 'I would have had new books and copies. Now I have not been able to go to school at all. When will I buy books and copies? When will I start school?'

8-year-old Bandika is worried about missing school and missing her friends. ‘Before, I had friends at school, friends at home, but now I have just arrived here, everything is new, and I have no friends,’ she said, ‘If I could have gone to school, I would have made friends!’

Manika Yadav, who studied in Thapathali, Kathmandu until grade 2, is now worried about where she will study in grade 3. Seeing her friends go to school, she wonders when she will be able to go to school. She sometimes asks her mother, ‘Mommy, when will I go to school?’

Even though she is 9 years old, she knows why she is not able to go to school. ‘Our house was in a squatter settlement, there was a miking on Thursday and Friday to remove the squatters,’ Yadav said, ‘And on Saturday, they brought a dozer and demolished our house. We are now living here because we were not allowed to live in Kathmandu.’

Her friend from the squatter settlement, Hyubarani Karki, said that she had gone to Rkitipur with her family. ‘Hubarani has even started going to school,’ she said, ‘Where will mine go? When will it start? I don’t know anything.’