After COVID-19, So Happy To Be Together Again Basanta Budha (grade 5) was so eager to get back to SMD that he walked four days straight from his village. “I love to stay in school for many reasons such as, when I go to my home in the village, I have to work. To be honest, I don’t have friends …
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SMD School is Closed Again!
SMD Closed Again! With COVID-19 on the rise in Kathmandu, the government has ordered all schools to close again and for all in person exams to be postponed. So we had to send all our children home, including the Grade 8s and 10s who were supposed to take their National Board exams in the coming weeks. As of April 28th, …
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COVID-19 Update – June 2020
Dear Friends of SMD School, Like all schools in Nepal, SMD School has been closed since March 27 and we sent all our children home to their villages where it is safer for them (speaking from a pandemic perspective). See SMD’s COVID-19 May update for more details. The National Board exams (aka Secondary Education Examinations or SEE’s) for Grade 10 …
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Covid-19 Update from SMD School
Dear friends and supporters of SMD School near and far: We’d like to send you all a heartfelt Tashi Delek and a brief update on our situation at SMD in Kathmandu. We’re all fine at this stage. We closed SMD School to outsiders over two weeks ago and everyone coming inside (including nuns, monks, other day scholars and staff) have …