After almost two years of construction, the school in Tanjakot in Humla, in the far west of Nepal, was officially opened on 1 April 2024. 360 schoolchildren now have a new school in one of the most remote areas of Nepal.
Since the completion of the passive solar house in September 2023, the five-month school closures in the winter from November to March due to low temperatures of up to -25 degrees will be a thing of the past. Pupils will now be able to attend school for 10 months.
People with disabilities have a hard time, but in a third world country it is especially hard! We have made it our mission to make this fate a little easier by building a day care centre for disabled people in Lhubu.
The Michl-Dacher School was the first school built by NHB in 1995, providing an education for more than 500 children. Completely destroyed in the earthquake, it was rebuilt in 2018.
The extension to the Hans Kammerlander School is used primarily to supplement conventional schools. There, school leavers learn subjects such as electrical engineering and the like in theory and practice.
The Siddhi Shaligram Briddh senior citizen home, right next to the Siddhi Memorial Hospital in Bhaktapur, was fully financed by the NHB and inaugurated in 2005.
During a visit to Chautara in 2010, it was decided to improve the situation of the blind students there who were attending a regular school and were housed in a very poor house near the school.
The so-called Peter Habeler School in the small village of Muhlkarka, not far from our first school.
Just under 100 pupils attend the small primary school in the village of Kodari.
The core project of NHB since 2001, the Shaligram Bal Griha children’s home in Lhubu. Up to 38 orphans and children with one parent, aged 4-18, receive adequate schooling here for their future lives.