Happy new year!

ECC Nepal had an incredible 2019. We are now working in 17 rural schools and supporting students and teachers in countless ways.

We have an even bigger and more exciting 2020 on the horizon. Although there are so many projects we want to do and schools we want to help, we have developed some reasonable projects and goals for this year. As always our number one goal is helping kids!

ECC 2020 Projects:

1. Continue our in-depth support and educational intervention in our 17 existing schools

This means we will be visiting these schools and teachers at least 4 times a year. We provide in class support to teachers, fresh supplies, and anything else they need for continued success and to see amazing changes in the teaching and learning quality in these schools

2. New materials for classrooms

Our team is always thinking of and creating new and useful materials to support interactive teaching in the classroom. When you work in a remote and rural area schools have access to limited resources. We are also limited in what we can bring them because of the difficulty of transport. So, we really try and make it count! This year some new materials include: specialized flashcards, legos and wooden blocks, morning meeting materials, and ECC worksheets and workbooks.

3. More lunchboxes for kids

Our lunchbox program is one of our most successful! We will continue to distribute lunch boxes this year to many students and schools. We are hoping to distribute more this year than the 500 we gave out last year!

4. New upper grade classrooms

In all our schools we are working in grade 1-3 but we want to keep growing. This year we are planning to expand to grade 4-5 in many of our schools. This will allow students to build a really solid foundation in interactive education. Students will have access to more materials, and education that works through all those crucial years. The hope is that eventually we can run our intervention all the way until grade 10 eventually.

5. New schools

In 2020 we are going to add at least 2 new schools to our program. While we are not growing as fast as we did last year, we are going really in-depth with our existing schools. However we do want to continue to expand our ideas. These two new schools are in an entirely new rural region of Nepal. Setting them up at model schools allows us to spread our ideas and awareness of what education and teaching and learning should look like to more people in Nepal

6. Libraries

We opened 1 library in 2019, and we are going to keep that running in 2020 by paying for the library staff and providing all materials needed. In addition we are opening at least one other library in another school!

7. Creation Room

This is ECC’s most unique and exciting project for 2020. We have been thinking a long time about how to let students have access to even more learning resources. Together we have invented what we call a “creation room”. This will be resource room of sorts in school. It will have computers, blocks and puzzles, paper and crafts, and science materials. The hope is that students get time in there every week to create and learn independently through doing! We are opening our first one in May 2020 and based on success we plan to open more in the future.

What a BIG year we have planned! Thank you for standing with us. We always need the support and are grateful for everyone who believes in education like we do.

2020 looks like it might be our best year yet!