Foreign teacher helps Parbat school

BY LAL PRASD SHARMA

THULIPOKHARI (PARBAT), Oct 12 - Barbara Freeman, a lady teacher from Waora Montessori School at Waddington Drive in New Zealand, has a unique interest. The lady from the faraway foreign land has been taking dedicated initiatives for economic, physical and educational development of Pushpamadan Primary ...

Seeing the condition of the school and students during her visit to Thulipokhari two years ago, she had made a decision to help the school. She said this while addressing a function at the school recently. "I have initiated social work and teaching at the same time so the days have become most remarkable to me," she added.

The students' photographs that she took during the visit touched her students and their guardians in the school she was teaching in New Zealand.

"They immediately decided to help the students here," she said. This response apparently motivated her even more to do something for the school in Parbat.

According to Resham Lamichhane, who is her guide, she has also expressed interest in establishing a higher secondary school if local guardians would support her.

Barbara said that the help she has extended so far is personal but assured that her school in New Zealand and the school here would establish a formal relationship within a short period.

Barbara handed over some pencils marked with the names of 32 students who had contributed these items and some educational materials for the library during the program organised in the school on Saturday. According to Lamichhane, students would remain in touch with the New Zealand students who had sent the pencils and soon additional educational materials will be arriving from that far away country for the school.

The future help would primarily be focused on sports, art and music. Barbara is confident that the school would produce many bright professionals in the days to come.  The school presently runs classes up to the third grade with 32 students enrolled. Almost all the students come from backward communities.

Barbara said that she would introduce sanitation and hygiene programmes in the future.