INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
KATHMANDU, MARCH 28The Japan government handed over the new classroom building of
Shree Rameshwary Secondary School in Gorkha district, on Thursday.
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The inauguration and
handover ceremony was attended by Kikuta Yutaka, Ambassador of Japan to Nepal.The new classroom building has been constructed as part of a
project supported by the Government of Japan under the Grant Assistance for Japanese NGO Projects scheme
The project is being implemented by Japanese NGO ChildFund Japan, and is currently in its second year of a three-year project
The project aims to improve the learning environment and increase students' attendance in Gorkha district, not only by constructing
classroom buildings, but also by providing training to improve the capacity of teachers and programmes to support the establishment of
community-based child friendly schools, the press release issued by the Japan Embassy in Kathmandu said.
On the occasion,
Ambassador Kikuta congratulated and appreciated the efforts of all those involved in the project
Ambassador expressed his hope that the new school building will be properly managed and maintained, that the various training programmes
will continue and that the learning environment at the school will become even more child friendly in the future.Ambassador Kikuta also
mentioned that this is not the first time that Japan has supported this school, as there is another classroom building that was rebuilt
under the Emergency School Reconstruction Project after the 2015 earthquake
Ambassador also expressed his expectation that the school, which has a close relationship with Japan, will promote disaster management
initiatives and that these initiatives will spread to other schools in Gorkha district and throughout Nepal
He added that he hoped the students of this school would play a leading role in people-to-people relations between the two countries as well
as in the development of Nepal in the future.
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