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A touch of class headmaster’s own house to collapse. Materials
were purchased locally and the villages shared the
Mounts Bay Rotary Club has taken on a second workload free of charge during the construction.
school project in rural Nepal. The Cornish club has
already established a primary school 10km from Shree Navajyoti Tham secondary School
the nearest town, which now has three teachers
and 70 children, and now is involved with a More from Rod Varlow on 01736 731569 or
secondary school in Parbat district, Dhaulagiri, rod.varlow@gmail.com.
near Pokhara, in a project to build four
classrooms. RIBI CONFERENCE 2017

According to Rod Varlow, chairman of the Just a reminder that next year’s Rotary in
International Committee at Mounts Bay, the 300- Great Britain and Ireland Conference is to be
pupil secondary school takes all tribes and castes held in Manchester (April 7-9 2017).
in the area and some financial help is given to
dalit (lower caste) children, all girl students, the Check out the video!
mentally and physically handicapped and
particularly talented students. www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5N_82C5wL4

The school needed to rebuild and equip four more
classrooms to replace those in a dilapidated state
and so enable it to obtain Higher Secondary
School status, under the Government’s policy.
The Rotary Club of Mounts Bay provided £9000
towards the cost of rebuilding the classrooms,
which are now complete. With help from the
Rotary District’s Foundation fund, the club has
been able to send a further £1,800 towards the
cost of equipping the new classrooms, bringing
the total sent from the Mounts Bay club to
£10,800 and the school is now able to look
forward to obtaining a Secondary school status.

The new classrooms were built with a reinforced
concrete strong enough to withstand
earthquakes; in fact, it suffered no damage in last
year’s tremor, which in fact caused the