Aaisha and Bishaka.
Introduction
We started our internship program for the second year with buildNepal. As part of the internship program of St.Xaviers College from the beginning of October. Mr. Souvidhya Manoj and Mr. Rajan Khadka provided us with a brief introduction and thorough explanation of buildNepal. They also provided details about ongoing projects in the social sector.
We as interns started our internship to work on one of the very interesting projects of buildNepal i.e RSN. We were very cheerful to work with buildNepal in one of its flagship projects i.e. RSN (Responsible Student Network). As we ourselves chose the project which was suitable to us from the beginning. We were detailed about this project to help the student of the partner schools of buildNepal.
Placement
The first school we were assigned was Prithivi Narayan School (PN) at Goldhunga. PN School was very welcoming since the first meeting with the Principal. We started to rapport building with the school as well as increasing production activities for the students. We also followed the direction of the school’s wish list about improving student’s handwriting as well as their performance regarding their studies. We engaged with Prithivi Narayan School For a few months. In February, we helped to manage the St. Xavier’s social camp at Prithivi Narayan School where the students of +2 from St. Xavier’s college were camping for 1 night and 2 days. It was a very encouraging camp where every student and teacher erudite about community organization and development as well as group work, the coordination and punctuality was so elegant.
Internship during Earthquake
RSN started to work with 5 other schools after the camp. Bishaka entrusted with Prithivi Narayan School. Whereas I started working with Srijana Gyansagar Schoo. Each individual intern from the organization was placed on different school. This was a great platform for us as well; to coordinate and conduct plans with the school to initiate the RSN project. As soon as this plan was taking up its pace of signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU), a disastrous earthquake strikes Nepal. For a few days, all the programs were at a stop. Then, NK 2020 team with North Kathmandu initiated the Earthquake relief program. Along with them RSN also helped in the post-earthquake scenario where we helped the people in need. The RSN team also added up another program for earthquake relief with it’s partner schools.
Post Earthquake
The program called “Post Earthquake Entertainment Program” was conducted. We started with Prithivi Narayan School and then with Sunflower school. This was a challenging program for us as people were still under traumatized of the disastrous earthquake. These certain projects were handled by us with the guidance of our team leaders and communicator and other Interns. The experience of our journey with buildNepal and North Kathmandu was enlightening as well as resourceful. We came across various learning that we can apply in our further studies as well as the project. We thank the team of buildNepal and North Kathmandu for supporting us and encouraging us to do a fine task.
