PROFOH Education Project – Nepal

In May 2015, Professionals For Humanity (PROFOH) launched an ambitious response to the Education crisis in Nepal. Our decision to mobilize a response stemmed from urgent requests from our team on the ground, from recognition of global inaction and the overwhelming need for more support, and from a moral obligation to help address the worst crisis in Nepal history with over one million children out of school. An estimated 24,000 classrooms were damaged or destroyed in the earthquake, the most severe to hit Nepal in 80 years. UNICEF said in areas such as Gorkha, Sindhupalchok and Nuwakot, over 90 percent of schools were destroyed. In Dhading, 80 percent of school buildings collapsed. Schools in other areas such as Kathmandu and Bhaktopur are being used as emergency shelters for earthquake survivors. Our focus is on emergency and later it will be on reconstruction of school’s subject to funding and donations received, we call on education to be free, and compulsory. “UNICEF has expressed fear the recent gains made by Nepal in raising primary school enrollment to 95 percent may be lost due to the consequences of the earthquake.