Rajanwa, Nepal
Ground Break, January 2025
Completion, July 2025
We’re excited to announce that the school in Rajanwa, Nepal is now complete and will be providing vital education to 199 students (110 boys and 89 girls)! Community leaders and buildOn staff members will also be working together closely to increase the number of students, especially girls, enrolled in this school.
Thank you to The Lezley Margo Charitable Trust for sponsoring this school. We’re so grateful for your generosity.
This is our 26th school - over a quarter of our 100 schools goal!
We do not build schools for communities, we build schools alongside communities with buildOn.
The community of Rajanwa contributed the land and natural resources such as sand, water, and gravel to the project. A Project Leadership Committee consisting of six men and six women from Rajanwa were selected to oversee the school build. These incredible leaders not only helped to collect supplies, they also organised crews to volunteer on the worksite each day. By the end of the project, the men and women of Rajanwa had proudly contributed 985 volunteer work days to the building of their new school!
About RAJANWA, 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 percent of the total population—are illiterate. We work closely with buildOn and rural communities across Nepal to ensure they have access to quality classrooms and education.
Discrimination based on gender and the caste system have kept far too many children and adults in Nepal from ever attending school. Currently, more girls (13 percent) are out of school than boys (7.2 percent).
Nepal’s small villages and remote communities such as Rajanwa often lack access to quality school structures and classrooms, and a disproportionately large number of those living in poverty are women. The village of Rajanwa is a rural community of approximately 3,115 people located in the Banke region. Most community members are subsistence farmers who rear livestock and grow rice, wheat, and corn.
At the ceremony inaugurating the new school, Oliver’s impact was deeply felt as his story was shared with the community.
Hear from a local teacher and explore the old school.
the build gallery
