Local village schools in Nepal lack basic necessities including electricity and clean drinking water.

A primary goal of this project will be to help mitigate the current shortage of safe drinking water supply in local schools and thus help address the water-related health problems among the children in the village. Upon successful completion of the proposed initiative, efforts will be made to educate and train local teachers and community leaders about benefits of rainwater harvesting and demonstrate to community at large that there is a simple yet better way to meet their water needs and that, with little effort on their part and some outside technical help to start with, their dream for clean water can be materialized. A proper management of the resource they already have in their own backyard together with an innovative application of an age-old affordable technology is all it takes to make it happen.

This project will also seek to harness the environmental benefit of clean solar energy by setting up a small-scale solar panel network at the proposed site (school) to help provide electricity as well as hot water to run a 24-hour Health Post on-site for the students as well as community in the village. This set-up is also expected to generate enough electricity to operate water treatment units besides providing electric light to classrooms as well as powering the solar water pumps for distribution of clean rainwater to various parts of the school. This effort will seek to demonstrate how advanced technology can be applied to overcome the local constraints and help solve the rural problems at grass root level.

A team of volunteers went to Nepal from January through March of 2010. During this time we did a site survey of the site. We will be starting construction this summer with completion of the project by October 2010.