A brand new bright, contemporary, safe and fun space for thousands of Burmese Migrant children to learn and play for decades to come.
Completed November 2023
Our 2nd off grid school in rural Cambodia, made from repurposed shipping containers driven in from the metal yard in Siem Reap. A safe bright and happy place for 100’s of kids for years to come.
A great paint job courtesy of the kids and the community!!
A BRAND NEW SCHOOL IN MAE SOT, THAILAND
A new school in rural Cambodia for underprivileged local children. Made from repurposed shipping containers from Siem Riep and driven up into the jungle by lorry. As always the kids and community all got involved with the final paint job!!
Opened June 2023
A new nursery to replace a rotten, unsafe and highly impractical building for the deeply underprivileged Burmese migrant kids of the area.
We broke ground on this project in August 2021 and officially signed off the completed building on November 17th 2021, the kids will be in by December.
A safe, happy and fun environment for children to learn and play for decades to come.
PROJECT OPENED FEB 2021
PROJECT OPENED JUNE 2021
PROJECT OPENED JUNE 2021
HER PLACE
BACKGROUND ON THE PROGRAM
PROJECT RENDERING AND BUILDING PROGRESS
THE BUILDING AS OFF 14/02/2024 ON TIME AND ON BUDGET.
Our Girls’ Empowerment Program (GEP) was launched in rural Nepal in 2018 to help vulnerable girls escape marital slavery, trafficking and abuse along with focusing on education, counselling, vocational training and so much more.
Originally supporting 40 girls, the GEP has grown exponentially to directly provide just under 23,000 Nepalese girls with life-changing opportunities.
Covering everything from healthcare to menstrual hygiene and self-defence to career opportunities, the GEP offers girls new beginnings at a formative stage of life.
The GEP has overcome entrenched cultural beliefs and stigma which often meant girls were forced to spend their monthly period shut away alone in animal huts. They would never speak up in public, let alone speak to a man.
Fast forward to today and the GEP sees girls interviewing politicians on the programs weekly national TV show, winning international youth awards and achieving success in sport. Alongside this, the girls are carving out amazing careers all while becoming pillars of their communities.
Local communities across Nepal have embraced the GEP and now benefit from confident, empowered and happy young women ready to make a crucial difference locally and nationally.
In 2022, with over 100,000 Nepalese households watching the GEPs weekly national TV show, KANALLAN launched the GEP nationwide across all seven Nepalese provinces.
All of this has culminated in the need to take next step
Our Girls Learning Centre and Safe House:
Once construction is complete this building will serve 10s of thousands of vulnerable young women for decades to come. The centre will provide standard education, education around health and the menstrual cycle, self defence, legal services, safety, counselling and much more.
There will also be a heavy focus on vocational training, business classes, finance, careers and entrepreneurship.
It is a truly unique project that has only been made possible from the amazing achievements of these incredibly brave girls; completely changing the local mindset towards young women.
As you will see we are well into construction and we are on time and on budget.
We are fundraising via our partner charity Indigo Children’s Fund, to donate please click here
Full project rendering here: https://vimeo.com/684571561?share=copy
Year 2 of our Girls Empowerment Program in Nepal is now complete, it was a huge success and we could not be happier with the results. We have now reached well over 5000 individuals directly and we have millions of viewers to our weekly TV show spreading the news of our work, and female empowerment throughout the whole country.
In October 2019, we have opened the new school wing in Bulingtar, Nepal on behalf of our clients, Indigo Children’s Fund and The Nemeth Group.
In response to the success of the first safe house built for the children of the city landfill of Cagayan D’Oro, in the Philippines, on behalf of our clients, we have completed a larger home to accommodate more kids in November of 2019.
After a great inaugural year the 2nd year of our Girls Empowerment Program in rural Nepal is of to an amazing start
YEAR 1 COMPLETE! Our Girls Empowerment Project in rural Nepal. We couldn’t be happier with the results. Watch the year 1 round up in the video.
In the Arusha region in Tanzania, the Kimnyake Secondary school has been waiting for upgrades for many years, after being let down by countless other non profit organizations. Since the school’s construction 25 years ago, there are many defects and dangers that the harsh climate has brought on, as well as the growing number of students.
Issues range from lack of adequate toilets and classes - only 8 filthy latrines for 550 adolescent girls and 90 students in some classes - to structural and environmental concerns that have left parts unsafe for use. We are now taking on the project to make the school safe to learn and upgrade it with proper windows and roofing in response to the dust and rain that often stops lessons.
The first improvement we have made is the girls toilet block, that was competed in June 2019. This will provide more latrines as well as sanitary resources for the adolescent girls at school. The structure has 12 rooms, of which one is a hygienic exchange room for sanitary napkins and another room will be a special toilet for disabled people. The remaining 10 rooms will have Asian type toilets.
The video below is from our research trip to hear from the teachers and students about the needs of their school.
On December the 13th 2018 we broke ground on a new school wing in Bulingtar, Nepal. The school was very badly damaged in the earthquake of 2015 and has been overlooked by government and international aid agencies ever since.
In November 2019 we opened the doors to the new building.
The children were beginning to go elsewhere to school and the teachers were starting to leave due to the poor working conditions.
GROUND BREAKING DAY, DEC 2018
The village is in a very remote area that has serious struggles with their economy. We have made agreements with the local government who have formally pledged to improve trade routes in and out of the village to its capital city of Pokhara.
The village is rich in produce such as oranges however lacks any direct way of taking these to market. So in a mutual agreement we are building the school and the government is helping with the economy of the village and ensuring good teachers return with fair salaries.
Our founding Director, Quintin Clover is on site in Bullingtar, Nepal, for groundbreaking day and explains the situation. Watch the video here.
In Tanzania we hear from the students and teachers about the needs of their school. Watch the video to see what they think are the most important issues.
After 6 months of the Girls Empowerment Program in Nepal, we wanted to check in with the girls to see the progress they have made. Watch their responses in the video.
On December the 13th 2018 we broke ground on a new school wing in Bulingtar, Nepal. The school was very badly damaged in the earthquake of 2015 and has been overlooked by government and international aid agencies ever since.