Resume Schools - Resume Lives: Our focus is to resume the network of 25 government schools that KG has been working with for the last 4-9 years. The families of the students are from the poorest strata in society, and therefore most vulnerable to earthquakes as they live in cheap, structurally weak homes. They are also stand the most to lose by loss of daily wages when they have to stay back to take care of children. As a child starts to resume their school, her parents can resume work, and the life in the community starts to pick up. Our message is that we should not wait in fear of another earthquake, or in the hope of another relief-truck, but start picking up the pieces of our lives, now. KG's plan is to go from move past quick Relief to focus on Resume so that the long term Rebuild may commence. Or else, we may be stuck in an aid-dependent economy that displaces market economy (as was the case in Haiti after earthquake). KG’s long-term plan will emerge from how the situation develops over the next month, and on its assessment of the needs of the children.
Resume Schools - Resume Lives: Our focus is to resume the network of 25 government schools that Kg has been working with for the last 4-9 years. The families of the students are from the poorest strata in society, and therefore most vulnerable to earthquakes as they live in cheap, structurally weak homes. They are also stand the most to lose by loss of daily wages when they have to stay back to take care of children. As a child starts to resume their school, her parents can resume work, and the life in the community starts to pick up. Our message is that we should not wait in fear of another earthquake, or in the hope of another relief-truck, but start picking up the pieces of our lives, now.
Update May 12: Another shocker of 7.4 scale. All children and volunteers in the Educational Camps were safe. We will meet the next day, as usual, to resume our own lives, along with any other children that may decide to show up.
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