Wanakha Central School, 2015

“The Evolution”

Wanakha is located just above the Thimphu - Haa highway. The School has been recently upgraded to a Central School.There are 402 children, 21 teachers and classes starting from Pre-primary till tenth grade

Orientation and dissemination of information on “Design For Change”

Feel F

Wanakha is a beautiful and a very cold place located at 2720 meters above the sea level.

The parents of the students are mostly farmers. They rear lots of cattle for milk and dairy products.Because of the cold climatic

condition the parents move with their cattle to a warmer place every year leaving their

children either with the grand parents or the older siblings. Most of the students also have to walk a minimum of 45 minutes to reach school

every day, due to which cleanliness has become a persistent issue in the school.

Another issue constantly reminded by the school is the lice on the smaller children’s

head. There were also many other problems that affected us like not having mirrors in the toilets, need for a school canteen, difficulty in

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Sending leave application, waste

problems and many more. From all the

problems we felt that the cleanliness in the junior students was the most persisting problem. There fore

we chose “cleanliness in the junior students” as our DFC challenge.

School Captain Namgay Wangchuk and a group of senior students suggested that every

senior student adopt a child from the junior classes and help them to stay clean through constant checking and even helping them in

the school during the recess time.All the children agreed to their suggestion and even came up with the idea to raise fund through food stalls and donations to buy hair cutting

scissors and clippers. A core group of 15 members were formed to monitor the

activities.

Imagine

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Do Adopted a brother/sister from the lower classes.Raised funds to buy scissors,hair clippers, nail clippers and soaps for hand washing purposes.Checking of uniform, nails, shirts, socks and shoes during the morning assembly.Hair cutting was done weekly (ongoing process)Senior students takes lunch together with their junior students from the School.( The Principal and the teachers were generous enough to participate in raising funds and providing soaps for washing.)

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DO – IN ACTION

Three children from the core group went to share their success story in two different nearby schools. They also shared information on “Design For Change” and encouraged the two schools to join in the near future. Students in the higher grades were more interested and asked the presenters numerous questions and doubts. Some of the students even shared their part of problems related to cleanliness and suggested some tips on how to keep smaller students clean like washing their uniforms on weekends.

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SHARING THE SUCCESS

FUTURE COMMITMENTS

• Continue with the same activities.• Raise more funds to buy socks and shoe

polish for underprivileged children.• Frequent monitoring during the

morning assembly.• Give bath to the junior children once in

a month with the help from the school cooks.

• Help with their home works during study time.