TRASH MANAGEMENT SCHOOL PROJECT AT FRESH NEPAL

Trash Management School Project started on September 14 with the group of students at orphanage named Fresh Nepal. After the observation of the orphanage, the need to teach students about the trash management was felt. Thus, this place was chosen for the workshop.

Students gathered in the common room. The concept of ‘trash management’ was introduced to the students. 20% of the students knew the meaning of ‘trash’ while 1% of them understood the meaning of ‘management’. The topic was explained in detail. Students were taught about the types of bin for the trash management.

They were more focused on the ‘recycling’ part and were keen to learn about what that meant. After the explanations, students were asked to volunteer to explain what they learnt. Three students raised their hands to participate. They confirmed that they knew about the project very well. Remaining proved their understanding by saying which trash went to which bin. The class had the practical aspect where students were told to make three bins. The thrown boxes along with newspapers and chart papers were utilized to make them.

The group was divided into 3 so that they could concentrate on one bin. At the end of the program, they built their own bins for the orphanage and kept to use them.

HEALTH AND SANITATION PROJECT – STAGE 1

Health and Sanitation project was started on September 6 with students living in hostel of Genius Medium English School at Sundarijal. The stage-1 of the project was the demonstration about how to take a bath properly. Sundarijal was chosen for this project after the observation of the hygiene situation of students.
The students in hostel come from various backgrounds. Some of them are orphans without any evidences of biological parents. The hostel uses the tap water coming from the river and natural water resources. The water is naturally filtered. The problem of this project is to teach students about healthy living by using the resources available. The stage-2 of this project would be a class.

Awareness program on the impact of negative uses of mobile phones

Awareness program on impact of negative uses of mobile phones was conducted
at Genius Medium Secondary School at Sundarijal. Hostel students gathered in the
common room for the program at 1:00 pm.
Around 25 students gathered in the room for the program. The entire program was
targeted to class 9 and 10 since they were teenagers who need to be aware about the
mobile phone usages.

The first part of the program was introduction of all students and teachers present.
Various videos were shown and analysed in the program. The videos depicted all social
problems caused by the unaware uses of mobile phones.
In the class, 7 students used mobile phones. Different issues like fashion and flaunting,
harassment, Waste of time and money were analyzed and discuss.

Girl participants were attentive specifically during the session of discussion about
harassment through mobile phones.
The program ended up with the positive note. All students and teachers took a pledge
to never harass, offend, waste money and time or do any activity that hurts others.
The signed pledge was hung in the wall of the class to make them remember about it.

Teamwork and Idea Generation Workshop

The workshop on Teamwork and Idea Generation was held in orphanage located at
Talchikhel, Fresh Nepal. Twenty students were present in the workshop. The students
were from different classes. The participation of 5 years old boy to 17 years old was
seen in the workshop. Exactly at 12:30 pm, the workshop started by hanging the poster
on the wall of the class.

To the utmost surprise, 97% of students knew the meaning of ‘Team’. Their first response
to the term ‘Team’ was group. When asked upon teamwork, many said Teamwork.
Various picture cards were displayed to the students to make them understand the
meaning of the workshop. One of the students in the group explained the story
of ‘Rabbit and Tortoise’. Without further discussion, students were excited to move
further as they knew the essence of the story.

The first activity of the workshop was to create their own teamwork book. They were
assigned to draw the pictures of their own choice. Many drew very well. All students
rated each other’s work and all received positive comments. All of them worked for
the cover page of the group together sharing their ideas. Finally, they came up with the
team work book.

The second activity was ‘Dream Tree’. Students were given cards each to write about
their dream. Those cards were hung on the branch of the tree. It was handed to the
orphanage for their motivation and rememberance.
The third activity was playing games. Students were really excited to play games.

Playing game was the part of refreshment for them. The game worked in a team. After
finish the game, the importance of the work of team member was explained.
Final activity of the workshop was building ‘Our Family Tree’. This activity required
lots of colors to paint their palm. So, colors were made in three plates. The students
actively participated to build the dream tree by using their palm print.