 For
the first year PCV Zack Nelson taught at this school in Janakpur,
the foundation of a room sat outside his classroom. Because of the
lack of space, the fifth and sixth graders shared a classroom together
making instruction difficult. When the school had been built there
had been insufficient money to complete the final room and only a
foundation was completed. After Zack had volunteered at the school
for one year, the school Head Miss and several teachers approached
him about the possibility of completing the room and providing each
grade their own classroom. Zack wrote a Peace Corps Partnership Program;
the Friends Meeting in Poplar Ridge, NY agreed to provide $1,700 and
the school committed to $850 for construction. The room addition was
completed in February 2000 with enough funds leftover to benches and
desks for several rooms and paint the school. |
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See also:
www.peacecorps.gov