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Global School PartnershipsDfid Global School Partnerships has developed active global citizens in Nepal
Dressed in sparkling white and navy blue uniforms, young girls and boys from Annal Jyoti are elated to share details about their partnership projects, subject knowledge and correspondence with their friends in UK.
“I recently completed a project on Global Warming and its impact. I am now aware of the factors that affect global warming and am doing my part to control it,” says 13-year-old Sophia Maharjan. Another student, Garima Rai, is happy to add on, “I knew nothing about the melting of glaciers and its consequences. After completing my project and interacting with the teachers and students in UK, I now understand these issues more clearly.”
The Annal Jyoti School (secondary level) in Kathmandu has been working in partnership with Saint Martin’s School in Solihull since July 2007. A partnership that initially began with exchange of letters and power point presentations, the two schools later developed comprehensive projects on Energy Supply and Conservation, Tourism and Art. Speaking about the outcomes of the projects, both students and teachers describe this opportunity not only as a learning platform but also as a way of sharing their ideas and showing creativity. “The DGSP programme and the partnership have exposed students to global issues. They are now more curious about different topics. This encourages us to teach academic subjects from a global perspective,” states Bijay Tamla, a teacher at Annal Jyoti.
In Nepal, British Council is developing international awareness and intercultural understanding among school children and teachers in the UK and Nepal through our DFID Global School Partnerships (DGSP) programme since 2006. 59 schools from 11 districts of Nepal have already established partnerships with schools in the UK. Basically they are working on various topics like cultural exchanges, environmental projects and interdependence.
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The students of Nagarjuna Academy are equally excited. The first school in Nepal to have received the Global Curriculum Grant, Nagarjuna Academy has been in partnership with Cramlington Community High School since 2006. Cultural week celebrations, inter-cultural dialogue, and the establishment of an Eco-club and Eco-garden in both the schools are some of the activities done in the past years.
Currently working on a project “Water Testing of nearby Rivers”, the students plan to collect samples of the Bagmati River in Kathmandu, check the level of pollution in the samples and compare and contract it with the samples of the Tyne River collected by the students in UK. The objective of this project is to create awareness among the students, teachers and community about water pollution and also to share ideas on ways to control and reduce the pollution of rivers. “Our partnership with Cramlington and the initiation of such projects has made us aware. We now know that what we do to the environment today is what we have to face tomorrow. I now think twice before throwing a wrapper on the street or littering my classroom,” states Yukta Yadav, Vice-president of the Eco-club.
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