KMC mobilizes volunteers at community schools

KATHMANDU: The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has mobilized volunteers at the community schools for the beautification of schools and to further encourage the students towards teaching and learning activities.

Officiating Chief of the KMC’s Education Department, Saraswati Pokharel, said the volunteers have been mobilized to create neat and clean, greenery, artistic and attractive environment at the schools as well as to further motivate the students in the teaching and learning.

KMC selected 145 volunteers from the applications it had called through a public notice and mobilized them at the community schools within the metropolis, Pokharel added. Forty-five of the selected volunteers have been mobilized towards the Youth and Children (Heritage) Programme and the rest towards the Environment and Children Programme. According to Pokharel, the volunteers have been mobilized in 89 community schools within the metropolis for six months.

The volunteers are required to give their time to the school on two days a week (Thursday and Friday) and make the ‘Beautiful School’ programme effective through collaboration with teachers and students.

The KMC believes that the volunteers will contribute to its two programmes by formulating, in coordination with the Liaison Teacher, on Thursday the action plan for the programmes to be conducted in the school on Friday and implement the same. The volunteers shall also take the lead in cleaning the school compound, classrooms, garden and the toilets and institutionalizing the practice of segregation of waste, among other activities.

The KMC Education Department Chief also indicated the possibility of mobilizing the volunteers also in the KMC’s ‘Smart Tole’ programme. The KMC has also formulated a code of conduct for the volunteers.