“For A Complete Education”
Click on the link below to see these programs and more in action at HCA
School Project Introduction and Educational Philosophy
"In 2008 the CLCR team travelled to Nepal and commenced work with the Heartland Children’s Academy (HCA), which is our latest educational project offering schooling opportunities to the underpriviliged children of Kathmandu and broader Nepal. The school is administered by CLCR in Australia via its co-team in Nepal . We are looking for your financial support for the improvement and implementation of our plans within our school, the Heartland Children’s Academy (HCA), Bafal Kathmandu"
Below is a snap shot of the Heartland School project, the children we are targeting and the reasons we at CLCR feel that this project is necessary for todays Nepali society.
Our aim is to create HCA as a model school within Kathmandu city through the provision of a school environment and a curriculum that is based both on academics and student learning needs as well as the development of relevant Nepali life skills. Through the implementation of in-school programs the school will look to provide an exceptional quality of education and a healthy child friendly learning environment. It will incorporate in-school programs which aim to holistically develop the student and greater prepare them for life’s challenges. Here are a few examples of the life skills programs we are offering the students alongside the compulsory Nepali curriculum:
• Kitchen garden and agricultural development program
• School and environment sustainability
• Work and careers experience
• Conflict Resolution and communication development programs
• Nepali specific vocational skills training: students will have the opportunity to develop relevant skills in areas such as cooking, carpentry, sewing and candle making
• Leadership Development Program: identifying, shaping and creating Nepal’s future leaders
For example, above is a picture of Pema, she is currently an HCA House Captain and one student we have targeted within our Leadership Development Program as a future leader of Nepal
The HCA Specifics
HCA is a co-educational school that offers classes from Kindergarten through to higher secondary class ten. Because of CLCR’s involvement the school operates on a different level to other schools within Nepal. For example, it is service orientated, the teaching methods are child centered and classroom numbers are limited in an effort to build greater student teacher learning relationships. It utilizes student management methods free from the violence currently used to discipline students in Nepal. It targets specifically, the underprivileged population sectors such as the untouchable castes, the indigenous, disabled youth, orphaned children and the women of the country through educational scholarship opportunities. In fact many of the children featured within these photos attending HCA are sponsored by generous individuals and organizations via our Student Scholarship Scheme.
The school currently has 230 hundred students and over 25 teaching and non-teaching staff members. It is situated in the heart of Kathmandu with hostel facilities and a good sized play ground approximately one Acre in size. With your support it is looking to grow, bring a whole new approach to teaching in Nepal and increase its benefit to the communities it is serving through resource and infrastructural development.
To achieve this CLCR needs your financial assistance for the Heartland Children’s Academy school project.
We will use your donations to renovate and better equip the school with things like new library facilities, teaching and learning resources, new approaches, and an upgrade to the current school science and computer laboratory. We need your help to make our plans a reality!
Here are a few pictures of the current school facilities, the students and the HCA teaching team, for us this is a reminder of the many things we are trying to achieve and the positive difference our efforts and a good education can make to a child’s life. Please enjoy these pictures with the knowledge that many of these kids are attending HCA through our Scholarship Education Scheme.
“THIS IS OUR SCHOOL”
The HCA HOSTEL: for the complete welfare package
HCA offers our hostel services to any child attending HCA, but we specifically make it available to scholarship students from both Kathmandu and from outside the valley. The essence of providing these children with hostel facilities is to cater for their every need, educationally, emotionally and personally. Many of the children within our hostel have lived an underprivileged life and often lacked an appropriate level of care and education. Thus, we focus on the whole package in an effort to provide them with the welfare, resources, learning environment and opportunities that would otherwise see them most probably living on the streets. Below are just a few pictures of our current hostel facility, which we are focusing on expanding and renovating in an effort to take on more kids and provide an even greater level of care for the HCA scholarship student’s.
HCA STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME
One of our major focuses is providing the underprivileged and marginalized groups of Nepal with the opportunity of a free education at HCA. We are able to offer this through our “Student Scholarship Scheme and Family Assistance Program (FAP)”. Within this scheme we target Nepal’s orphans, street kids, the disabled, untouchable castes and the women of Nepal. All these groups are vastly underrepresented and often either cannot afford to attend or lack the opportunity to attend the schools in their area. We have created this scheme to give you the opportunity to sponsor a child in need with an education at HCA. Sponsoring a child is not just giving them the opportunity at receiving a quality education but radically changing their life and future opportunities for the better. You can do for this just $1.15 Australian dollar per day!
If you are interested in sponsoring a child and want to find out more, click on our “Student Scholarships ” web link or our contacts page to speak to us directly about your involvement in this exciting life changing program.
DONATING, CLCR MEMBERSHIP AND STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS: School Sustainability, now and for the future of Nepal!
We Need Your Support
To keep this fantastic project going we need your financial support. Donations, big or small give us the opportunity and flexibility to provide the resources, teachers, infrastructure and the right learning environment to positively support these children through education and welfare.
Contributions can be made electronically to our account, Via CLCR membership or specifically through our student scholarship scheme. Every dollar can make a difference, we know this first hand.
If you are interested in contributing to CLCR and the school project then go straight to our “Donations and Community Partners” page to make a secure tax deductible donation today! You can alternatively contact us via the following details or through our CLCR contact page.
Pat Price
CLCR Founder, President and HCA School Director
Email: pat_price79@hotmail.com
M: 0402 486829
Anna Richardson
CLCR Corporate and Public Relations Manager:
Email: spanna55@hotmail.com
M: 0412 624013