Introduction

Lakasa Nepal (LN) implemented "Reconstruction for Resilient School & Community" (RRSC) Project with the support of Mercy Relief, Singapore, Singapore Red Cross and Nepali Society of Singapore from November 2016 to July 2017. Focusing disaster readiness as its core goal, the project targeted school and local community furthering its potential to impact the whole community. RRSC's three areas: Safer school, Community Capacity & Awareness Building, and Community Awareness for DRR was designed to build back community with essential knowledge and skills for preparedness and safer future against the disaster.

One of the core areas of intervention was the masonry trainings that help the local masons to acquire marketable building skills that can help the community to build their damaged houses even more sustainably.

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Building earthquake resilient schools in Sindhupalchowk

  • Two earthquake resistant school buildings were constructed ensuring the availability of water points and toilets.
  • Built 17 earthquake resistant classrooms of two schools with RCC structure at Balephi Rural Municipality, Sindhupalchowk.
  • Local masons were selected, trained and employed to construct the school buildings.
  • Trained masons constructed a total of 117 houses in the community as of April 22, 2017.
  • Orientation program about earthquake and landslide preparedness and safety measures was conducted. 
Testimonials

Project Sustainability 

The core reason to implement the project through participation of the community was to ensure that the knowledge remain in the community itself. This was primarily achieved with optimum participation of school management committee, teachers, community andstudents of the community. Their participation in the overall delivery and management of the program ensured that the project has successfully delivered the core value of Lakasa, that is enabling local communities is important step to sustainability.  Our project worked out by choosing local masons to build the school building, giving training to local masons, increasing awareness through mass media, training the local SMC & teachers to push the students for WASH activities andorientation on DRR to teachers andstudents are the measures to bring sustainability. The input of software component is to strengthen the skills of maintenance, provide awareness and tips to use the facilities along with the specification of the agents. This sustainability is measured by measuring the level of action of the school family for better and safer school and the activities of our masons/ community stakeholders who have begun to take their role into the community contributing the building construction and following the guidelines of disaster resistant construction.  This is an exit strategy where the key implementer will leave the project under the hands of community stakeholders by providing them knowledge, skills and ideas. 

Reconstruction for Resilient School and Community (RRSCP)
Sindhupalchok.
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earthquake resilient school buildings constructed in Sindhupalchowk.