Our team in Birgunj
Some of our 22 employed teachers, cooks and sweepers. On the following pictures the hard-working staff of lotus school and rose school can be seen.
Exam time in Birgunj
In all three schools in Birgunj our children did their yearly-held state exams. Most of the children did very well and were able to show how much they learned in the last year. Impressions of the exams can be seen […]
New school uniforms for prison school and slum school
The Slum School and the Prison School of Child Vision Schools in Birgunj received new school uniforms. The distribution of these school uniforms, consisting of a T-shirt, sweater, pants or skirt, shoes and a school backpack delighted the children immensely. […]
Education as a way out of poverty in Nepal
At the beginning of 2020, I spent two months as a volunteer in the south of Nepal in the town of Birgunj together with a friend. The ChildVision Nepal association from Upper Austria supports two schools there, where I taught. […]
Austrian High School runs for Nepal
We, Mara Dessl, Emma Neuhäuser and Una Koller, are 3 students from the 7th grade at the Linz International School Auhof and have made it our task to collect as much money as possible for Child Vision Nepal. Together with […]
Brigitte Söllinger wins Eduard-Ploier-Price
We are pleased that our founder Brigitte Söllinger has been awarded the Eduard Ploier Prize for valuable services as well as special commitment in development cooperation. Since 2015, she has been leading the project “Child Vision Nepal”. Its goal is […]
Anamika tells…
The headmaster of the ChildVisions School gives an insight into the Nepali (school) system. 1. Government vs. Private Schools Why did you send your children to a private school instead of a governmental school? Our governmental school are not well […]
Voluntourism – when helping has the opposite effect
Extract of the thoughts of a volunteer Helping disabled children in an infant home or orphanage in Sri Lanka, building up a water fountain in Africa, or maybe better teaching children of a small village school in Cambodia? There are […]
ITEM girl – Fridays for Future – plastic bottles instead of school fee
Since 2016, my husband and I have built up three schools for children from the lowest caste (80% of them are girls), trying to protect girls from being sold to brothels through education and thereby form the base for a […]
My real life fairytale of fulfilling childhood dreams in Nepal
For many children in Nepal, school is simply not an option. They work in the streets with their parents, a necessity just to stay alive. Every day, 365 days a year these kids, especially girls, work in the streets. If […]