Gadrahi, Nepal
Ground break November 2022, Completed June 2023
We’re excited to announce that our school in Gadrahi, Nepal is now complete, providing vital education to 186 students (96 girls)! We have nine wonderful teachers, teaching eight different grade levels. We are also working with community leaders to identify and enrol more girls and improve the education system further.
We couldn’t have done this without you - so thank you, you wonderful humans!
About Gadrahi and NEPAL
More than 4 million people in Nepal are living below the poverty line of $1.90 a day, and more than 11 million people over the age of 15—40 per cent of the total population—are illiterate. buildOn works closely with rural communities across Nepal to ensure they have access to quality classrooms and education. Discrimination based on gender and the caste system has kept far too many children and adults in Nepal from ever attending school. Currently, more girls (13 per cent) are out of school than boys (7.2 per cent).
Nepal’s small villages and remote communities such as Gadrahi often lack access to quality school structures and classrooms, and a disproportionately large number of those living in poverty are women. The village of Gadrahi is a rural community of approximately 1,000 people located in the Banke district. Most community members are subsistence farmers who rear livestock and grow rice, wheat, and corn.
Meet one of our Gadrahi Students
Thirteen-year-old Souleymane is a passionate sixth-grade student and one of 189 children in Ouekorobougou who can't wait to have a new school to learn in.
You can also tour Souleymane old school here:
the build gallery
