CNSP and Education
CNSP supports both formal and informal education in Nepal. CNSP has helped send children to school, created new classrooms, and repaired damage to schools.
Formal education is obtained through the regular school system.
Non-formal education is practical education. Non-formal education is for children who have lost the opportunity to go to school. They are usually over 16-17 and are illiterate. We teach them to read and write and gain systems knowledge and vocabulary. For instance we teach all about the water system, all about what is in thehomw, all the language and knowledge about various types of farming, etc.
In the countryside, it is not uncommon that children are hit when a teacher is questioned. As a result, a culture of "not questioning authority" is common. Sometimes the beatings are so severe that children are admitted to hospital. Such injuries to a child do not constitute a crime!
It is particularly difficult to educate the Untouchables. Untouchables are not allowed in the homes of Touchables. They must stand outside. If they are asking for food, the food must be given to them outside the home. Untouchables can not go to the common water tap while others are there. If others are present, the Untouchables have to wait - infractions often lead to public beatings.
In Canada
For Nepalese people in Canada, support is given while in the immigration process.
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School Enrollment in Nepal
Edited from source: Xinhua
"About one third of the school aged children are deprived of the opportunity for going to school in Nepal," Kumar Bhattarai, program coordinator of Nepal Child Workers Concern Centre (CIWIN), a non-government organization, told reporters.
"Some 86 out of 100 Nepalese children have the opportunity for enrolling in school. About 54 succeed in completing primary school education, Among the children of school-going age, the number of boys exceeds the number of girls, Bhattarai noted.
The present situation of inaccessibility of school education for children is attributed to social factors such as poverty, prevailing conservative concepts, gender discrimination, geographical structure of the country and backwardness, Bhattarai said.
About 500,000 additional children have been encouraged to join schools after the 'Students Enrollment and Welcome Campaign' launched by the Nepali government came to force in 2005. There are about 4.1 million children of school-going age in Nepal at present and a total of 37,566 schools, Bhattarai noted.
