ALL4NEPAL – Update No4

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Nepal Quake 2015 A massive earthquake of magnitude 7.9 on the Richter scale struck Nepal on 25th April 2015 at 11:56 a.m. The intensity of the quake spread to several countries surrounding Nepal like Bangladesh, Bhutan, China and India More than 7000 deaths (Figures estimated to cross deaths) More than injured 8 million people affected in Nepal alone 2.8 million children in need of humanitarian assistance More than 80% buildings damaged in villages of Nuwakot & Sindhupalchowk districts alone Districts affected : 36 Schools completely damaged : 575 Schools partly damaged : 969 Students Affected :1.5 Million

Why Round Table’s focus is on Schools? Over Class rooms have been destroyed by this Earth Quake in Nepal. About 1 million students don’t have place to study. If Children do not get back to school and in education again, they may get engaged in labour jobs and never return to school and will have a potential devastating effect on there lives and that of Nepal in the future. When schools have been made, it can be used as shelter for community at night and in day time children can get education.

Our Long Term strategy: Rehabilitation Objective Our aim is to build 100 classrooms and 50 TLC's (temporary learning centers). We have chosen Nuwakot which is about 2 hours from Kathmandu, as its one of the most affected area. We will have two kinds of reconstruction – Retrofitting the damaged structures Building completely new room Our classrooms will be as per the approved design of the Government and we will take permission from the District Education Officer. Budget As all the engineers are busy, we have not got all the cost for retrofitting and repair. The costing have started coming in and we are on the process of scrutinizing. Rationale Non Clearing of debris may prevent the students from going to school due to fear of the existing damaged school building. Stopping to go to school now might end up in the children starting to do odd jobs. They may never return back to school. This leads to the high risk of children being engaged in child labor

TLC and Classrooms The Goverment is working cost effective design for regular classroom, since it does not have budget its not priority at the moment. Goverment is working on starting all the schools asap with temporary learning centers (TLC) there are 2 types of TLC’s temporary made of bamboo and tarpaulin and second is semi permanent with steel structure and corrugated sheets. Goverment wants schools to get into operational asap using TLC and slowly build permanent classrooms when they get budget for the same. We are in the process of making Steel TLC which can later be converted to permanent classroom by adding flooring, walls, doors and windows. The ones that we have completed have the floor and half wall included from the start.

Project Activities Building of new ClassroomsRetrofitting / Repair Existing Ones Phase 1 Supplying necessary construction Materials Erection of the frame Foundation, floor and half wall Corrugated sheets for roofing Finishing and handling over to the school management Schools and classrooms which have damages will be verified & checked by structural engineers and report issued to see if cost effective to repair. Based on recommendations from the structural engineer & approval by MoE will provide necessary retro fitting & repairs to those schools deemed cost effective to do. Phase 2 Later, after approval of design from MoE, we plan to make this building permanent by making necessary windows, doors etc.

Steel Structure TLC Design

Steel Structure under construction

Cost of TLC / Class rooms Stage 1 Cost of each TLC block is approx. US$ 3000 Stage 2 Approx cost of converting TLC block into permanent classroom is us$ 5000 Total cost of Classroom block (stage 1 + Stage 2) = US$ 8000 Each Block has 2 classes. That is US$ 4000 per permanent classroom

Shree Shivalaya Madhyamik Vidyalaya Total No. of students – 450. Total staff – 17. Total Classes – nursery to 10, total 12 Total no. of rooms – 18 out of which 12 are fully damaged. Planned 2 TLC blocks to meet immediate requirement. New Classroom Cost of Building TLC Blocks no 2 Phase 2 converting into class room TLC - 2 X 3000 = Us$ 6000Class room – 2 X 5000 = US$ 10000

Shree Shivalaya Madhyamik Vidyalaya construction Due to space constraint’s we are making 1 block initially.

Nava Jeevan Madhyamik Vidhyalaya Total Students: 350 (Boys-60%,Girls-40%). Total Classes: 1 to 10, total no. of rooms - 15 Total staff – 16. Building made of bricks and steel Truss, 2 class rooms fully damaged, 6 classrooms need to be demolished and new need to be built. Land ownership is of school. Manpower available for help. Need to build toilets Cost of Building TLC Blocks no 3 Phase 2 converting into class room TLC - 3 X 3000 = Us$ 9000Class room – 3 X 5000 = US$ New Classroom

Shree Okharpauwa Madhyamik Vidyalaya Total No. of Students: 350 to 400. Total No. of Staff: 21 All classrooms made of concrete and are damaged. 10 class room block will be retrofitted, Toilets to be built and retention wall to be made. Retrofitting Cost of Retrofitting and toilet etc US$ 17,500

Bal Binod School Built by kirt7 under 11SFN. Damaged by recent earthquake. Engineer will be giving his recommendation to repair soon. Retrofitting Cost of retrofitting – Awaiting report

Shree Shrijansil Prathamik Vidyalaya No. of Classes – 4, Staff – 4, Students – 50 to 60 approx. No extra space to make new building Building is fully damaged Truss has been broken and fallen apart No pillar in buildings Toilets ok Cost of Building TLC Blocks no 2 Phase 2 converting into class room TLC - 2 X 3000 = Us$ 6000Class room – 2 X 5000 = US$ New Classroom

Shree Ajingare Higher Secondary School Class – 7,8,9,10 – plan to use the same steel post structure and break the walls Class – 2,3,4,5 – steel structure from Japan aid, so just need to break the walls Computer Lab, Staff Lab, Library, Staff Canteen – Break all the walls as no steel structure Principle’s office, Staff room & library not usable *Note - No extra space to make new building. Retrofitting + rebuilding Awaiting reports and costs for works

Shree Mahadev higher Secondary School Total no. of students – 623(40% boys, 60% girls). Total classes running – nursery to 12 and bachelors also. Tot no. of staffs – 23 excluding 10 bachelor level staffs. Total no. of rooms – 27 among which 17 is used for running school. School has occupied almost 23 ropanies of land, 5 ropanies is in its own name, the other land in the name of VDC.2 of the buildings made with Japanese Aid but fully damaged, truss can be used.No fund provided till date but Adams group of China has made around 14 truss.Total classes required to operation – 17 to 21.Has problem of bamboo and manpower Cost of Building 8 BlocksCost of Retrofitting Under scrutiny

Shree Mahadev Higher Secondary School, Duipiple Total Students – 425 to 450(40%boys, 60%girls). Total Classes running – 1 to 12. Alltogether 14 classes used for studying.Total no. of staffs – 17. School has 3 buildings out of 2 are made with Japanese Aid. All are fully damaged. Truss can be used though.Has water supply problemToilets are fully damaged. Furniture are also damaged in large number.Has bamboo and skilled manpower problem. 12 temporary classes required to run school.No fund has been made available till now. Cost of Building 8 BlocksCost of Retrofitting Yet to be finalizedawaiting architects report Retrofitting + rebuilding

Shree Shiladevi Madhyamik Vidhyalaya Total no. of students – 301(boys – 35%, girls – 65%) Total no. of classes – 1 to 10. Total no. of rooms – 18. Land in the name of school. Korean group has made some sample truss classes but is incomplete. One of the Korean member has got injured. Toilets are also fully damaged Cost of Building 8 BlocksCost of Retrofitting Awaiting Reports Under scrutiny

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