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Board releases a second million rupees for the autism school in Kathmandu

Mission Rebuild Nepal disburses its funding to SSDRC in stages, each one released only against evidence that the last stage was built. In March 2021 the board voted to release the next instalment.
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/ Part of Special Needs School, 2019–2021, Old Sinamangal (Pepsicola), Kathmandu-32.
Glass display cabinets holding jewellery, bags and woven goods made at the school's micro-enterprise shop, with a student standing beside them
SSDRC's micro-enterprise shop, one of the school's own sources of income, photographed during Mission Rebuild Nepal's visit in April 2019.2019-04-07

A year into the pandemic, with construction in Kathmandu repeatedly interrupted, the board of Mission Rebuild Nepal voted to release a further one million Nepali rupees to the Special School for Disabled and Rehabilitation Centre.

The vote was framed as a response to progress rather than to need. The board's stated reason was the pace at which SSDRC had built, and the money was released to let the school continue construction and improvement of the building.

This is how the memorandum of understanding between the two organisations is written. The project is divided into three or four phases; Mission Rebuild Nepal transfers money for the first phase, and transfers the second instalment only after receiving sufficient proof that the first was completed. The same staged-release mechanism governed the transfer of funds to Sipapokhare between 2015 and 2017.

The announcement thanked SSDRC's founder, Sabita Upreti, and her team for continuing to build through the disruption.

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