Construction of Artificial Pond and Introducing Hatchlings

In June 2014, further expansion work was carried out on the fishery program. (Click here to read about it.)

Here's a video of the activity.

Videos of Setting Up Caged Fishery

The fishery Social Business for Education in Thangpalkot for Raithane school was begun in late of August, 2013. Here finally are videos of the event. (Click here to read the blog post about it.)

This one is about making and setting up the cages.

This one is about the introduction of the hatch-lings into the cages.

 

Video: Building a Boat for Raithane School Pond

Video: Raithane Secondary School Science Lab

Video: Making of Kim Children's Library at Sri Raithane Secondary School

SBE Pilot Project Video

COMMITTED believes education gives individuals the freedom to dream the impossible and chart their own destinies. However, often in rural Nepal, education of children is either neglected or not a priority due mainly to poverty. In the communities COMMITTED serves, the financial burden placed on the household is so much that children either do not go to school at all or drop out long before graduation. To address that, and as a part of Sikchya Mero Adhikar (Education-My Right) Campaign, COMMITTED establishes Social Business for Education (SBE) projects.

Social Business for Education is an income-generating project, profits from which will be used mainly to run and support free, mandatory, and quality education at community schools. The rest of the profits will be spent on village development projects through a local government-led community planning process. These income generating self-sustainable businesses are appropriate for the local economy and run as a community managed cooperative. As such, both the community and the school will participate directly in the planning, implementing and running of the business. Each year a certain amount of generated funds from the SBE is allotted towards improvements outlined in the School Improvement Plan (SIP).

You can more here, a post by the Education Program Director of COMMITED on his Blog.

The video below, found on our YouTube Channel, was made in 2011. 

Project Update: Fishery in Thangpalkot VDC

Fishery project in Sindhupalchowk has taken bigger shape since June. Barbed wire fencing has been laid around the nursery to protect it from cattle and unnecessary intrusion. The nursery pond, divided into two parts, have been stocked with fingerlings of Common Carp, Grass Carp, Big Head Carp and Silver Carp. 

Barbed wire fence around the Raithane Nursery

 Much progress has ensued in the production pond as well. 2,900 fingerlings have recently been restocked in pond. A new shed and a sorting tank has been constructed at the pond site. The shed will
act as a storage room for fish feed, fishery equipments- all in all, an office for the fishery project while the sorting tank will be used for conditioning fingerlings.   

Newly constructed sorting tank

Shed to store fish feed and fishery equipments

Shree Chilaune Ma. Vi., a government school from Manekharka has also embarked on the fishery project to support operational activities of their school. So far, 2,300 fingerlings have been installed in the cages of Chilaune's Bhuttey pokhari. The fingerlings will be ready for harvest by the end of this year.

Bhuttey Pokhari

Locals from the VDC have, too, stepped into fishery. Bir Bahadur Dom, a local farmer, has started fishery in his 2 ropani land. COMMITTED has provided him with subsidy and technical assistance as feasible. Along with Dom, two local farmers, Krishna Shrestha and Ganj Bir Tamang have also started fishery in their ponds. Shrestha has stocked 200 fingerlings in his pond while Tamang has taken a bigger step by stocking 1,960 fingerlings.

Ganj Bir Tamang's and Bir Bahadur Dom's pond

While the fishery project grows, work is underway to start a Haat Bazaar in the VDC, a first of it's kind in the whole district of Sindhupalchowk. Materials required for the construction of Haat Bazaar have been already been assembled.