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Every day at Sapana School brings something new — a new lesson, a new discovery, a new dream taking shape. As we complete our first year, we asked our students a simple question: how has Sapana changed your life? The answers were honest and heartwarming. Some said...

What We Learned This Year at Sapana 🌟 This year at Sapana Community School was filled with growth, giggles, and so many proud moments! Our students worked hard, explored their curiosity, and built skills that will stay with them for a lifetime. Just look at what they...

Happy 1st Anniversary, Sapana Community School!! A year ago, we asked you to join us in making a dream a reality—opening a school for children who needed it most. Today, thanks to your support, we are celebrating a year of our dream school! In just one year,...

We’re so excited to share that Library #8 is now open and already full of life. This library came to life through a true community effort. Thanks to your support, we were able to fill it with books that are already sparking joy and imagination. We’re incredibly...

Learning Fair at Sapana Community School 2025 This past month our school was alive with excitement and pride as we held our Learning Fair at Sapana Community School. Students from Grades 1 to 7 set up stalls to share the work they completed this term, including...

Sapana School Updates!What’s been happening at Sapana School? We’ve had a busy 3rd term full of so many interactive lessons and lots of fun. Students have been busy around campus building simple machines, learning about chemistry, doing painting,...

Term 2 has started at Sapana Community School! New curriculum is being used, students are engaged in class, and we’re serving full lunches every day. Outside of traditional classroom work, students have been getting out into the community! We are really working to...

While we’d love to invite all of our supporters to Nepal to tour Sapana School, we know unfortunately that isn’t possible. Instead, we are bringing a tour of Sapana to you! Two of our students, Binod and Tara, gave a wonderful school tour the day after Sapana opened....

Sapana Community School had nine incredible weeks of fun and engaging lessons, nutritious meals, science experiments, and joy.  Every morning when the gate to Sapana opens we are greeted with the biggest smiles from each student.  Teachers have put all their effort...

We did it! On Monday April 29th, our brand new school opened it’s doors to the children of rural Nepal! This school involved years of planning and incredibly hard work but we are so excited it finally came to life! This dream school we’ve created is...

Meet Nisha Life in rural Nepal is not easy, and children are no exception to this. Nisha is a 12-year old girl from one of the remote villages ECC works in. Before school, Nisha doesn’t watch TV, eat cereal, or play with toys. Instead she is sweeping the floors,...

New School year! In Nepal, the new school year begins at the end of April. This is always a busy and impactful time of year for us at ECC. All our our partner classrooms need to be restocked with materials. Without our support, students would be studying without...

Meet our 6th graders! At the end of April, we started our OWN grade 6 classroom. Until now, our method has been to partner with government schools. The government controls the teachers, curriculum, and all school decisions. We provide training, materials and support...

We’ve officially opened a women’s center in our rural Nepali village! Women are the backbone of society. When women are healthy, educated, and empowered, their whole family, and in turn community, will be positively impacted. ECC Nepal is working in a...

Every year our birthday comes around and we are all humbled and overjoyed that we’ve made it another year! I (Janie) need to thank each and every one of you personally from the bottom of my heart. Starting this organization 6 years ago at just 24 years old I...

ECC Nepal is celebrating 4 years of changing lives through education. We have been able to accomplish so much and help thousands of people in the past 4 years. More important than these statistics is the stories from real people who have been impacted by our project....

Immediate Relief: Migrants in QuarantineNepal is facing a crisis. Thousands of Nepali migrant workers are finally being allowed to return home from India. Without daily work during lockdown, they could no longer support themselves as migrant workers. Their journey has...

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...

ECC has completed their new desks for all three of their primary schools. They were given to grades one through three and built by locals in the community. These tables are to replace the long bench-like desks that previously worked in this classrooms. In some...

In our previous GCE blog post, we described the need for quality pre-primary/early childhood education in rural Nepal, and what Educate the Children (ETC) has done in years past to help ensure that more children can and do receive quality early education – giving them...

The EFA Global Monitoring Report published in early 2014 reported that around 250 million children do not have basic skills in literacy and numeracy even after four years of school, or don’t even make it to grade 4. The quality issue is serious. But what is meant by...