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LETTER TO THE SPONSORS

 

 

Dear Sponsor,

This few words, which are written here, are from all us to you. Before I start, I would like to say THANK YOU VERY MUCH to every sponsor for your kind help.

We know in our heart that we are some of the few lucky kids of Nepal who get an opportunity to spend our life under the shelter of Nag. We are very thankful and at the same time obliged for what we are today. It is all because of your kind support.

As we write to you all that happens at Nag and our individual views. It would be nice for us if you also could suggest what you would like to know about Nag as well as Nina. Tell us what you would like to know about us through our magazine ‘Kid’s Eye’. Your letter and your stories are always very welcome.

We look forward to hear from you.

                                                                             Your loving Kid

Hiramotti Tamang

 

 

 

A NEW CHILD IN TOWN

Written by Kamala Gurung

In the month of November, a baby child was brought to Nag. She is an illegitimate child. Nicole miss has given her a name, which is Juhi. Her mother’s name is Maya Magar and father’s name is Tshewang Lama. When her Mother was in love, she became pregnant. They were not married. The father did not want to accept the child so he went away from her. The mother did not have any address of the father, not even a photo and she started to live with her friend from the time she was pregnant. After nine months she gave birth to baby girl in Patan hospital. 2 weeks after giving birth to Juhi she ran away. Her friend felt pity on her and brought the baby to Nag without mother knowing about it. Juhi was very small and sweet. Nicole miss liked her and she kept her at Nag. A few days later Nicole miss and I myself went to the hospital where she was born and checked about Juhi’s birth files, we struggled a lot to find the birth file. At last, we found out that she was born on 30^th of October in the hospital. After a few months, her mother came looking for her. She missed her baby a lot and cried looking at the baby at Nag. She said that she did not have a good job and she cannot manage to look after Juhi. She does not have anybody to help her to look after her child. Therefore, she left Juhi safe at Nag. Nicole miss told her that she could come and visit Juhi whenever she likes. Now Juhi is six and half months old. She is living very happily with one of our aunties who look after her. She is the smallest girl of Nag with a plumy chubby and cute face. Every Nager loves her a lot. Now she has started smiling and we always make her smile because when she smile she looks very beautiful.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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DEBATE COMPITITION

written by Durba Giri

 

Once again hi to readers from me, Dhurba. This time I have an article about our school’s First Debate Competition.

            The first Debate competition was on Friday 14^th June 2002. The debate was held in our school, and all the students were excited. Debate was inter- house competition. All the four houses (Blue, Yellow, Red and Green) had participated.

            On behalf of Blue house participants were Buddha Lama, Jamuna Khadka, Susan Tamang and the Group leader Suddep Khatri.

            On behalf of Yellow house participants were Kiran Gurung, Rajkumar Shakya, Deepa Mainali and the Group leader Sapana Lama.

            On behalf of Red house participants were Manisha Tamang, Gelbu Sherpa, Dawa Sherpa and the Group leader Hehraj Puri.

            On behalf of Green house participants were Bashanta Basnet, Pabitra Gurung, Bipana Lama and the Group leader Abhay Gautam.

            All the participants were well prepared to their ability. Of course first they looked little confused but very soon they seemed to be confident with lot of heavy points.        

            There were two judges, one of the judges had been invited from outside, Mr. Vishmu Thapa, and he is a Nepali teacher of Shrine School. The other was our own V.P Mr. Tilak Panthi. Chaired person was principal of Nina, Mr. Saroj Rai, time person was teacher Mr. Binod Lama and the announcer was our teacher Mr. Ratan Tamang. Time had given five minutes for each participant.

            ‘Vegetarian/non Vegetarian’. First debate was held between blue and green house. Both the houses had well defended their subjects. Vegetarian the best was Green house and in favour of non-vegetarian was Blue house.

‘Town life and Village life’ Second debate was held between the red and yellow house. In favour of village life was red house and in favour of town life was yellow house.

            After these two event judges announced the winners for the final meets. It was a very close contest with narrow margins. The first debate was won by green house and they were selected for the final.

            The second debate that was more interesting and was won by the red house and they were selected for the final.

            Now for the final debate subject was ‘Pen is mightier than the sword’.

            The Red house got the sword and the Green house got the pen. After a five minutes break the debate started.

            Both the teams were looking cheer fool and determined to win. We noticed a great eagerness seen by the audience also. Everybody was listening to the points very attentively. Red House participant was Hemraj and Mannish who were showing their inner talent.          

At last the bell rang and the events was over. After some minutes the winner was declared.

            Red House was the winner. Accordingly the other points the Green House stood second, Yellow House third and Blue House fourth.

            ‘Points and position does not matter, each student gained something good from this debate.

            In the name of all students we captains would like to thanks the organizer of this debate and especially we like to thank our sponsors then without them there would be no debate.

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Interview with a NAG staff

written by Suddep and Ohm

 

1.                  Name

Chatra Bhadur Tamang

2.                  Date of birth

Tuesday, 29^th Aswin, 2022 (7 Oct 69)

3.                  Work at Nag

To help the children at Nag and to make them aware of their responsibility.

4.                  How long you been here at Nag?

From 1^st of September 1993 till now continuously.

5.                  What are the changes you see from that time?

From the day 1 had started staying at Nag, I have see lot of change. E.g.- Discipline in children, respect to the elder, in education and all round improvement.

6.                  How do you feel to be the oldest staff of Nag?

I feel proud to be the oldest staff of Nag because my employer and the children have given me a lot of love and trust me a lot. 

7.                  What holds you at Nag?

I love to be in Nag because my employer’s and the children’s love holds me at Nag.

8.                  Do you love the girls or the boys most? From their point of view, they are against one another. Are they right?

I love both the boys and girls equally but it’s not good to be against each other.

9.                  What do you expect from the kids?

I except that they should try and make their future bright and respect their teachers.

10.             What is your destiny in your life?

To be contend with what I have in future and get chance to serve the kids of Nepal.

11.             Your daughter study in NINA, how do you feel?

I feel happy that my daughter is studying at Nina.

12.             What makes you feel very bad and sad?

Till now working at Nag I have neither felt sad or bad.

13.             Whom do you love most?

I love most in my life to them that has given me a shelter on the path of my life.

14.             What do you hate most?

In this living world those who are not disciplined, I hate them most.

15.             What touches your heart?

The bad that hurt someone’s feeling touches my heart.

16.             How you feel working under Nicole miss?

I feel proud to work under Nicole Miss.

17.             What is the principle of your life?

Not to keep grudges on any one and to follow the ambition and dreams in your life.

18.             Are you content with your work and life at Nag?

In my lifetime to work at Nag, I feel happy and I hope it will remain the same.

19.             If you have to leave Nag, what do you lose and what do you gain?

If I have to leave Nag I will lose my boss (who are God for me) and the kids who love me very much. I gain nothing leaving Nag.

20.             What is the most selfish thing you have ever done?

I have no experience doing selfish thing in my life.

21.             Lastly, what do you have to say to all?

22.             I would to thank all the lover of education and the management committee for running Nag very smoothly. At last I would like to wish good luck to all the students of Nag.

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Article about Chameli

written by Avay

 

 

At the beginning, Namaste to all the readers.

          This article is based on one of our Nag kid’s life, named Chameli .She is a sixteen years old girl. From her childhood, (since I know) she was not good in her studies. She can hardly pass in a few subjects. Seeing this Miss Nicole decided and sends her to the beauty parlour for training. It was going on smoothly but after few months she showed no interest towards it and stop going. After the beauty parlour training, she showed little interest in the cooking class and joins school again. It was her bad luck, she was interested in the cooking class but what to do, and we were compelled to stop it because the teacher was not reliable. Now she is helping in class nursery. She is nice with the small children and she enjoys being with them. Some people cannot learn by studying but can learn by teaching. This is the same thing what is happening with her.

          She could not learn when she was student in school but she seems to be learning by teaching the small kids. Kids also like her and enjoy the things whatever she teaches. She was just in grade 2 when she left the school. Now she has started to help teaching the small kids. She is very helpful during school hour and assists the nursery teacher Mina miss.

          I wish her to be a great Nursery teacher in future and hope she will continue it for long time to be.

 

     

 

 

 

 

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Wishes do come True (part 2)

 

At train station, we had a nice surprise. Saran, Surjay, Ram Dai (Our big boys of Nag) and Bishal Dai had come to pick us up. Fredric sir unpacks his rucksack and gave our boys the Christmas presents from Nicole Miss, they look happy to see all of us. Outside the station, we took a taxi and we went to Dharamtala. It is a bus station. It was a very crowded bus station so we had to wait for two hours but the bus did not show up. Bishal Dai went to hire a bus .It cost 4000 IC. We got into the bus again and Deepak B had to help me to get into bus. Jeeten sir sent Surjay Dai to get mineral water. I was with Sushma miss on a seat and one Bengali guy was changing his clothes in front of us. We had a lunch there around 3:00 p.m. And the driver drove the bus directly to Digha. We booked room in Hotel ‘Duke’. All the boys and girls and me too kept the luggage. I was in Surjay’s room. Deepak B was with me in that room. Other went to have a look at sea but I was left behind to have a hot shower. In addition, after dinner in hotel ‘Baluchari’ I slept soundly that night. It had been a very long trip. I woke early in the morning and went to watch the beach. Wow how beautiful. Till now I had only seen it in Movies. It was like a movie.

At around eight, we had our breakfast. Other went for roaming but I stayed at room. I rode horse with Deepak B. We all got pocket money and bought myself a nice slipper and again we went to swim in the sea. I really enjoyed the swimming. We ate lunch at 1 p.m. We rested for a while, we went for shopping and to the fish market. It was very crowded, so we went there by rickshaw.

            A dumb rickshaw driver, who was the friend of Fredric sir, guided us to the fish market. We saw big fish lying dead on the beach, which had a very bad smell.

Next day, we went to snake park by rickshaw. We had a rickshaw race competition. Some boys push their rickshaw to make it move fast. We held this program every year whenever we go to Calcutta. Big boys had told a lot about this trip. I have never seen that much of snake in my life before. It was collection of different snake.

            In addition, we went to Digha Science City. I enjoyed a lot in Science City because science is my best subject. Days passed by exploring, swimming, eating, gambling in Digha.

So quickly the time passed at Digha. We had a competition of making things out of sand. Bikash Dai, Surjay Dai and Ram Dai were the judges. There were four groups of competitors. Fredric sir’s group made Boudha Stupa. Panthi sir’s group made temple, Sushma miss made turtle and Jeeten sir’s group made sea animals. I did not participate in any group but I enjoyed judging. It was nice. Jeeten sir group won the competition. The prize was a night show in Calcutta in the biggest cinema hall but our plan went flopped because there was very little time. We had the last swimming at Digha.

            The next day, Fredric Sir and Jeeten Sir arranged the bus to go to Calcutta. We put our luggage in rickshaw. I was also in rickshaw with Deepak B. We were all in the bus by 10 am. Fredric sir distributed mineral water to all of us. Moreover, there was counting as usual. The driver came to his driving seat and drove off. At 1’o clock the bus stopped at the unknown hotel for lunch. Some didn’t have lunch .We reached Calcutta around 3; 15. We met Bishal Dai and Saran Dai then they came to pick us up. They had already booked the hotel. We had to walk but I did not walk. Saran Dai and Deepak B’ carried me on the way to the hotel. It was a very long underground walk. They carried me turn wise. At last we reached the hotel Capital. There we got all the facilities we kept our language in our room. If we tell the manager of the hotel they will provide everything. That day we rested. Jeeten sir, Jitay, Ohm stayed in Bishal Dai’s flat. They came to the hotel in the morning. We went to ‘AQUATICA’ (A WATER WORLD) the ticket was expensive. We all enjoyed water world very much, I think especially me, I tried ALL the slides. First, I was very afraid to go but at last I went on every slide. Jeeten sir and Frederic sir encourage me. So I tried the longest slide in the water world. And we return back at 5 o’clock. We rested in our hotel.

            Next day, we went to Science City. It was much bigger than the Digha Science City. There was a Space theatre, time machine etc. We also entered the Evolution Park. It was really nice. The same day, we went to ‘Nicco Park’ (a park of fun). Frederic sir bought the tickets. Fredric sir told the teachers to make a group for lunch. We ate lunch there and after lunch, Frederic sir gave the tickets to play game and click individual photo. I walked with Fredric sir only. I went to the Ghost house, I played train and went to the river cave. And it was nice to play bumping car with Saran Dai. We went to Ice Land Theatre it was very cold inside and very dark. We return back to the hotel and had dinner.

            Next day was the last day in Calcutta. Some went for shopping. But I went to the ‘Indian museum’ instead. I just stayed in the museum with Saran Dai and Deepak B. Fredric sir had given us 100 IC to spend. Some girls went shopping we had a tiring day. We packed our clothes because that day only we had to move from Calcutta. We reached the train Station at 5 p.m. We had to wait two hours for the train. At last train came whistling. Fredric sir checked the seat number and counted the kids. We got inside the train. At 8 p.m. we bought rice from the train. It was smelly we reached NGB (Siligudi) at 8am. Deepak B had to carry me and we reserved two Jeep that would take us to Kakarbhitta we ate Puri tarkari and rested for while. Jeeten sir went to search for the bus in which we had come to Calcutta. We got inside the bus and rode immediately it was around 2:15pm. It was a fast bus. We stop in some places for check up. I don’t know which place we went. But we had dinner at 10:30 p.m. We reached the Kathmandu bus park at 6:30am. We reserve minibus and came back to nag. It was nice to see nag again. It was a nice trip for me. The whole trip was great. I really enjoyed it a lot

            At last I would like to thank the others for all the help we really enjoyed it. Many thanks to Frederic sir, Jeeten sir and especially Mister Andreas Smidt in Switzerland for giving me this opportunity.

 

 written by Isor Mishra

 

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SHIFTING NAG TO SANEPA

 

Namaste to all the readers. I have been writing in Kids Eye workshop for a long and write a lot. This time I would love to write an article about shifting NAG and NINA from Tinchuli to new place called Sanepa.

          We have not moved yet but sure of shifting there by July. The home where we are going to shift is a very old Rana palace. It’s an 80 years old palace. To make that palace, people carried marbles all the way from England to Nepal, on their back. That palace is going to be very special for us.

          All children are extremely excited to move there. It has a very big good compound but the house is not that big. All are happy in their own way about moving. Kids are happy because they are going to stay in new home and new place. Senior (big boys and girls), they are happy to be in new place and be with new people. We are also happy then we heard it is earthquake safe. We will see different kinds of people and get opportunity to learn extra activities from them. We will also be close to the Kathmandu Zoo.

          People cannot know how big the world by standing on top of the tower. They just can just say, “oh!!!!!!, the world seems to be very big”, but they can never find out the actual size of the Earth, unless they go and visit around it. We are happy to live in the old and precious palace.

          Now lets see what happens after the big move. People cannot judge a book by seeing its cover, to know what about the book is, you have to live in it.

          After shifting there, I try my best to write in detail about it, OK???? Meet you in next Kids Eye with new articles.

 

written by Sudeep Khadri

 

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CAPTAINSHIP

 

On Monday, 20^th May, we had the Election for the new captains. The captains were chosen by the students of each house who voted for them. All Students are divided into 4 houses.

 

Durba Giri (m)  was declared as the School-captain with seven votes.

Babita Chalise (f) was declared as the School-vice-captain with eight votes.

 

 

Bimala Gurung (f) was declared as the Yellow house-captain with 21 votes.

Thakur Thapa was declared as the vice-captain with 18 votes. Thakur Thapa made some mistakes and now Sapana Lama (f) is the vice-captain of the Yellow house.

 

Bashanta Basniet (m) was declared as the Green house-captain with 12 votes.

Gopal Gurung (m) was declared as the vice-captain with 16 votes.

 

 

Tsewang Sherpa (m) was declared as the Blue house-captain with 17 votes.

Sudeep Khadri (m) was declared as the vice-captain with 12 votes.

 

 

 

Hiralal Tamang (m) was declared as the Red house-captain with 18 votes.

Gelbu Sherpa (m) was declared as the vice-captain with 19 votes.

 

 

 

 

Some of them became captains even when they lost with the votes because they were the previous captains of their houses.

 

 

written by Munu Sherpa

 

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Few words to my teachers

written by Bashanta Basnet

 

I asked for strength; and the teacher gave me difficulties to make me strong.

I asked for wisdom; and the teacher gave me problem to solve                          

I asked for prosperity; and teacher gave me brawn and brain to work.                          

I asked for courage; and the teacher gave me troubled people to help.                          

I asked for favours; and the teacher gave me opportunities.                   

I received nothing I wanted; and the everything I needed.

 

THANK YOU NINA TEACHERS

 

Children’s birthday

written by Rajkumar Sakya

Most of the children do not know when the were born so they have no birthday. So at NAG we celebrate all children’s Birthday on the same day.

On 23^rd of May, Thursday, we had a big party to celebrate our birthday after lunch as we had our regular classes in the morning. Yesterday, all the boarders got their birthday presents and today, the all the day scholars got their presents. Today, we had a lot of fun while the band was playing some of the Nepali and English songs. We danced until 7 o’clock after the day scholars went home. Many girls and boys’ danced individual or a couple danced in the party. We had cake and coke for tea and the we had chicken for dinner. After the party, we cleaned the whole place.

 

        

 

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ME MYSELF AND NINA

Miss Nicole and Jeeten Sir named our school Niten Niketan Academy. At first there was only a home named Nawa Asha Griha (NAG).  Nicole miss started NAG on 1^st September 1993 with few kids. Years after year, the number of kids grew. There was just a tuition centre in Nag before.

By the year, 1998 there were many kids, so the school was registered up to class V in the same year. In addition, today we have school until class VIII.

There are 13 classes from Nursery to class VIII. There are two sections {A and B} in class II and I. We have one science Laboratory where we keep our game’s stuff also. There are 15 teachers in our school, a guard and a sweeper. The teachers are very co-operative and educated. We are happy with their teaching and at the same, our teachers inspire us in every field. Our Principal is Mr. Soraj Rai who teaches us Accountancy in class VIII and our Vice-principal is Mr. Tilak Panthi who teaches Mathematics in our school. There are volunteers also who assist in education. They come up to us with better ideas and workshops. They are also very nice to all of us and we are profiting a lot from them.

We have approx. 240 students. Out of 240, 113 are boarder who stays at Nag and the rest are day students. Most of the day students live near by. In class VIII, we have 20 students in class VII there are 16 students. The highest number of students is 25 each in class I ‘A’and I ‘B’. We also have older NAG Kids who are studying in higher classes outside of NAG.

          NAG provides the Day Students with one time lunch, books and school dress. Some of the day students are very good in their studies. The first girl in class VII, last year was a day students with 87%.  As a whole, the one living in hostel are good in their studies. As we are lucky enough that we do not have the family tensions like the day students, the financial position of the family is not good and they do have many other problems too.

In our school, we have different types of games such as football, basketball, badminton, table-tennis etc. The School organizes tournaments between different houses. We have one school Captain. His name is Dhurba Giri and he is from class VIII. We have Vice- captain, who is from class VII and her name is Babita. We have four houses. The Yellow house, the Blue House, the Green House and the Red House. There is always a different type of competitions through the whole year. The house-winner is the one with the highest marks, which is declared at the end of the academic year. Last year Blue house obtained the best marks.

We are lucky to have the best teachers in our school. Every kid here in Niten Niketan can speak in English. Even the smallest boy, who is now studying in Nursery try to speaks in English too. Honesty, its the influence of Nicole Miss and the volunteers also who communicate in English with the students.

         Not only at Nag, but in NiNA also we have a good environment, very friendly and family like. Though in the school, it is very good but we some time have problem with outside bad people. As we live in Boudha and there are many rough people living in Boudha. Some times, it makes us feel that it is not a good place to have a school. Every year we have to face problem. Sometimes local people threaten us, sometimes-high post people complain about the kids. The bad people of Boudha sometimes beat some of our children when we go for shopping. We try to be good to everyone and to the neighbours but the environment does not allow us to be. Still we will be good to them and be friendly to them. But we are all very happy that we will move to a better place. The new place is called Sanepa. We have a old Bus called Nora so that the day students can also come to Sanepa to school. With the Bus we can also go swimming and many other places too. We are happy to have Nora.

            I love my Nawa Asha Griha very much. Today it is the most essential and important for us. Our path of education takes us to our destiny.

 

written by Basanta Basnet

 

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