Maili School
Maili School was the Juniper Trust’s19th school in the remote village of Maili, where the 90 students were still using a temporary school for their education since the earthquake in April 2015. The three-classroom school was completed in time for our group to help with the finishing touches in November 2022 (see blog from the 2022 AAN volunteering group).

The 2022 AAN group raised £17,000 – £6000 to purchase and deliver new uniforms and equipment for 300 children at all three schools, £1,000 for painting the 3 schools and 12 classrooms, £3,000 to provide a new community library of 2,000 books and £5,000 to buy and help plant  6,000 fruit saplings during their visit. The saplings, a mixture of Walnut, Pecan, Peach, Plum, Sichuan Pepper, Mandarin and Lapsi, will generate fruit income for up to 10 years as they grow.

Bampti Kindergarten
In February 2020, our team in Nepal laid the foundations for a new Kindergarten in the remote village of Bampti. We had hoped to complete the project by the spring, but Nepal locked down with the rest of the world to control the COVID pandemic and unfortunately work had to stop.  In 2021, work was restarted, and the school was finally completed by December that year. The 2022 AAN group completed the paintwork on the outside of the school, decorated the classrooms helped make a play area for the children and deliver new uniforms for the children.

Uma Kunda School
Uma Kunda was one of the first schools to be rebuilt in 2016, just one year after the earthquake and was visited by the AAN group in 2017. Five years on, the 2022 AAN group gave the school a complete facelift, painting the outside of school and all 5 classrooms and delivered books for a new community library.