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How we do it

The communities are directly involved in a participatory way in need identification, planning, implementation and evaluation of our projects through transparent resource raising, allocation and mobilization.
Nepalese teams and experts take full responsibility for management of running projects so that new focus is moved to the new target groups.
We see ourselves as supporters of the target groups fully emphasizing the understanding of international justice and equality.
We create internal evaluation and fair dialogue systems for common solutions of existing problems in the team.
We are convinced that the common regulation of tensions and divergent interests can be a path for long lasting success of the organisation and its target groups.
International child rights, human rights and millennium development goals are guidelines for our common work.
All our property and funds are budgeted, transparent and efficiently managed, approved and audited by independent sources.

Shangri-La Orphanage Home (SOH), Lalitpur, Nepal Objectives

Ensure happy and secure lives of needy, helpless and orphan children.
Provide basic facilities of healthy nutrition, habitation, clothing and education together with medical facilities and recreational opportunities.
Provide scholarship to the children who are orphan, semi-orphan, desperately poor and are deprived of educational opportunities in their own families.
Reintegrate the orphans with a Reintegration Plan to support them in achieving sustainable goals in their future and lasting improvement into full human potential: empowered, critical and selfdetermined citizens of the nation and integrating them as equal members of the Nepalese society.

Present status of SOH: 50 orphans in the orphanage and 20 semi-orphans in scholarship program throughout the country (2006 May)

Shangri-La International School (SIS), Lalitpur, Nepal Objectives

Provide education to the children who have lost their family ties and have to survive themselves with their own ability in the world. Education is the basic foundation of human life.
Provide practical education and skills to live independently and empower the children through formal education by well trained teachers for the specific social background of our children.
Include the poor and underprivileged children in the same social environment where socially better class children are educated for creating social adjustment and integration and counteracting social discrepancy on the local level and be a model to create an equity- based society.
Provide trainings to teachers on the updated methodology of teaching and learning
Provide educational opportunities up to the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) level to the following groups of children: orphans, underprivileged, disabled and casteless children, children from the leprosy-affected families, children from the lowest income families, children from the sound economic background who can pay fees.

Present status(2006 May) of SIS: 50 orphans
scholarship-students 200+21
fee-payers: 265

Shangri-La Scholarship Program (SSP), Lalitpur, Nepal Objectives:

Provide quality education to the orphans, semi-orphans, underprivileged, disabled, casteless and to the children from the leprosy-affected and lowest income families.
Prepare them for successful results in the SLC and to lead self-determined lives.
Work towards fulfilling basic needs in order to support the students to attend school and to lower drop-out rates.
Provide an opportunity of common and equal status to socially different background children for creating a harmonious society.
Provide vocational training to make them self-sustaining with easy access to job or for selfentrepreneurship.
Allow participation of scholarship parents and guardians in Shangri-La Projects for mutual exchange of cooperartion, resources and skills aiming at common benefits and their empowerment to give positive impacts to scholarship children’s families at community level.

Present status of SSP: 230 Children

Shangri-La Vocational Training Centre (SVTC), Lalitpur, Nepal Objectives

Provide supplementary skill-oriented programs inside SIS curriculum in the subjects: pottery, carpentry, home economics, agriculture.
Avail all the students at the end of secondary education with skill test certificate for vocational jobs which will be recognized by CTEVT, the Government institution of Nepal besides the SLC certificate and have easier access in the job market, as well as in society. This is against the background that present statistics of Nepal in general show that around 40% only pass the SLC and the rest do not have a certificate for the job market.
Interrelate the practical and pragmatic courses of vocational subjects and other academic subjects and enable the students to transfer theory into practice.
Merge cognitive, affective and psychomotor dimensions of learning through vocational modules.

Present status of SVTC: All 545 Students of SIS (2006 May)

Shangri-La Community Based Integrated Development Program (SCBIDP), Jumla Objectives

To give Karnali Technical School (KTS) students practical application possibilities of their abilities and talents in the fields of agriculture, health and engineering in the rural communities.
Establish local level connection with the population for the lasting development of the communities
Support Nepal’s »Tenth five year plan« for poverty reduction in the Karnali zone by awareness-raising measures and capacity building for disadvantaged sub-populations.
Provide supports to the local population by means of participation of local human resources with knowledge and skill transfer in the sector of agriculture, health and engineering to enhance their self-confidence in recognizing own strengths and resources.
Create lasting co-operation between the KTS, local development authorities and stakeholders and community people.
Develop a model village in the long that exemplifies for other villages in Karnali region.

Present Status of SCBIDP: 128 students of Karnali Technical School – KTS, Jumla for Out-reach Programme in the target communities and 3643 villagers in the same target areas, (2006 May)