Education
Rajeshwori School stands finished in the village it was rebuilt for
The school whose grounds hosted the house handovers in 2016 reached its final stage in August 2018, with a second storey added and the building repainted.
Project 05 of 05
Rajeshwori School Construction
- Status
- Completed
- Years
- 2017–2018
- Location
- Sipapokhare, Sindhupalchowk
Summary
Having finished 800 houses at Sipapokhare in Sindhupalchowk, Mission Rebuild Nepal turned to the village school. It added a storey to Rajeshwori School through 2017, and published photographs of the finished two-storey block in August 2018. The surviving record of this project is thin, and this page says only what that record supports.
Figures
What this project recorded
Each figure is drawn from the organisation's own records. The documents behind them are released on request.
2018
Completed
Photographs of the finished building published on 23 August 2018
800
Houses already built in the same village
Verified ward by ward before the school work began
1,500
Villagers at the handover on the school ground
100 houses handed over that day, 368 in total to that point
Sipapokhare lost almost every building it had in April and May 2015. Mission Rebuild Nepal rebuilt the houses first. The school came next.
The village
Rajeshwori School stands in Sipapokhare, in Sindhupalchowk, one of the districts worst hit by the two earthquakes of 2015. Mission Rebuild Nepal was formed in June 2015 to rebuild the village, and by mid-2017 it had. In June that year a board member from Nepal, Dr Dikshanta Prasai, spent three weeks walking all nine wards and counting every house, and the count confirmed 800 delivered. With that verification done, MRN announced that the rebuilding project was concluded and that it would move on to schools and a community hall.
The school was already part of the village's recovery before any work began on the building itself. In March 2016 its ground held the second house handover, with 1,500 local people present, when 100 houses were handed over and the running total reached 368.
The building
The work added a storey to the existing school building. By January 2018 Mission Rebuild Nepal reported the project close to complete. The photographs from that month show a reinforced concrete deck being tied on the roof of the standing structure, and brickwork going up behind timber scaffolding.
In August 2018 Mission Rebuild Nepal published photographs of the school at its final stage: two storeys, verandas front and back, balustrades in, and the building painted. It thanked the team, and named two donors, Stephen DeFolo and Ben Amini.
2016-03-16
The second house handover is held on the Rajeshwori School ground, with 1,500 villagers present.
2017-06-14
House verification across all nine wards confirms 800 houses delivered. Mission Rebuild Nepal concludes the Sipapokhare rebuilding project and announces it will move on to schools and a community hall.
2018-01-11
The additional storey at Rajeshwori School is close to complete.
2018-08-23
Photographs of the finished building are published.
What the record does not say
Cross-checked
The same project in the impact index
These are the figures the organisation holds for this project across its whole record, each with the source it rests on. Where the archive disagreed with itself, the discrepancy is stated rather than resolved quietly.
1 storey
Added to Rajeshwori School
The school stands in Sipapokhare, the same village where the 800 transition homes were built.
2018
Construction completed
Final-stage photographs were published in August 2018. The work was funded by Stephen DeFolo and Ben Amini.
Field updates
Written while it was happening
The organisation posted as the work went on. These are the most recent updates filed against this project.
Education
A second storey goes up on the school that hosted the handovers
Seven months after closing its house-building programme, the organisation reported that the school extension at Sipapokhare was close to done.
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Mission Rebuild Nepal is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization registered in the state of Virginia. Money leaves the United States in stages and each stage is released against receipts for the last one.