Rather than spending money to help sponsor children's education, by sponsoring a teacher, it is felt that more children benefit.
Teachers can be selected who demonstrate commitment to education and to improving the quality of education given to the children they teach.Government schools are largely neglected, understaffed and under resourced. By providing support with extra teachers, impact can be significant. Large class sizes are typical. Government teachers have a 'job for life' and are often uninspired in their teaching. Few have much training.
Extra teachers are being supported at the two schools, enabling classes to be divided and providing better standards of teaching.
School buildings and materials
Deusa Secondary School needs a hostel for students who live at the other side of the village, over 
two hours walk away. The lower secondary school there only teaches up to class 8.
There is no budget for teaching materials. Donations have helped set up school libraries at both schools, provided wall charts and other teaching aids and provided sports equipment, musical instruments and arts materials.
Stationary is a problem. Most families are subsistence farmers and do not have money for note books, pens and course books. Primary children get text books free, but have to pay for most of their stationary. Secondary school students have to pay for all their books and stationary. All have to buy their school uniform.
Money is being raised for books and stationary. Help has been provided to buy land for building more classrooms and a hostel.
Income generating schemes
Coffee from Deusa is being sold in Kathmandu, benifiting the local farmer and raising money for the school. For the long term, micro-finance is being applied for to help poor farmers grow more coffee as a valuable cashcrop that can earn extra money.Healthpost
The healthpost was reopened in June 2008 after years of being closed due to the Maoist insurgency in the area. A doctor from the UK is funding a midwife, who runs the healthpost and provides health services to the community. Health Exchange Nepal UK (HexN UK) is providing a regular supply of medicines to the healthpost. Medical volunteers are very welcome.
Kanti Children's Hospital, Kathmandu
Located in Kathmandu, Kanti Children's Hospital is the only children's tertiary level hospital in Nepal. Most of the children here are from very poor backgrounds from all over Nepal, many from remote and rural areas. RAN is helping SAV, a Nepali charity to give support to the poorest children whose families cannot afford their medical care.
To find out more, click here.
The 'Squatters' School
The 'Squatters' School (or Saraswati Primary School) is the school attended by children from 'Manohara' slum, a shanty town that has grown up at the end of the runway of Kathmandu International Airport. To find out more, click here.
