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December 17, 2007
by Ram Das Chaudhary, Country Director, BwB Nepal
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| A woman pours water on the floor of the school to help cure it. |
These days are the normal, cold days in Nepal and in Kailali and the village people are not so busy these days. The field looks like yellow with the mustard flower. After a hard working and long construction process we have completed school construction!
The community people worked hard to complete the school construction. Sometimes we felt tired but another side we imagined the completion and success of school construction. All the communities were aware of the work because all people know what should be done this week.
Mr. Sobha Ram Chaudhary, the president of school management committee, empowered the people that they are going to complete a huge school building which is the foundation of the development.
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| A man rubs the walls of one of the classrooms before it can be painted. |
This was the final stage of school building construction. Our tasks for these last two weeks were plastering the floor, cleaning the walls for painting, and painting the school building.
Each day we completed one room's floor plastering and we completed this within three days. Some of the volunteers mixed the cement, sand and water, some of the volunteers carried sand on their head, some of them carried water and some of them supplied the mixed cement in the room.
The skilled labor put the mixed cement in the floor properly which is very skilled work. We brushed all the walls for painting. All the volunteers rubbed the walls with brushes, which was difficult work.
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| A man applies the finishing coat of paint on the outside of the school building. |
The last task of the school construction was painting. The skilled labor prepared the paint with all the required materials. All the volunteers carried it to the walls and some of them held it up with their arms and some of them rubbed it on the walls. It was difficult task painting the ceilings. Painting up to the five feet is easier then painting the higher levels. Overall, the painting was easy task and we enjoyed it.
Cheers, we completed the school building construction! We thank the BwB and the students who supported us to construct a strong permanent school building! Thank you!
Namaste,
Ram Das
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