Books Abroad shipment arrives in Nepal

We are delighted to report that Scottish Charity Books Abroad sent a couple of pallets of books by air freight to Kathmandu for our schools. The shipment was ready to leave Scotland in September. In October John Calder, of Books Abroad, visited Pragatinagar and Devchuli with Mukunda to see some of our work and meet Nardev Neupane, Head of Bhimsen Secondary School, who had offered to help coordinate the distribution of books.

John Calder being greeted at Narayani Primary School in Pragatinagar.

The reality of the shipment was that it did not arrive for some time. At short notice, Nardev Neupane, seen below with the books, headed for Kathmandu, with the Chairman of his school management committee, to secure the books from customs and bring them back to the village areas. They spent three days in Kathmandu before the books were cleared and transported by minibus back to the village for distribution. Nepal Schools Trust met their travel and board costs and the cost of the transport of the books down from Kathmandu.

Books were laid out at Bhimsen Adarsha Secondary School and a representative from each of the 16 beneficiary schools was invited to come and collect books.


On behalf of Nepal Schools Trust, Mukunda Raj Shrestha, our honorary trustee, went to the village to officially give out the books.......seen here giving parcels to Nardev Neupane, of Bhimsen, for his school.

Books went to all parts of the district.

Here the Principal of Narayani Primary School receives books from Mukunda.

The books had arrived and all been distributed when Trust Chairman, Chris Dickinson, visited the village in November 2011. In his visits to schools he was shown the books that had arrived and discussed with staff the importance of completing the feedback forms so that Books Abroad would have evidence both of their arrival at various schools and of how useful the books were to each school. The coordination of the return of these forms will be done through Nardev at Bhimsen.

The Nepal Schools Trust would like to say, on behalf of kids in Pragatinagar and Devchuli who will use these books, a big thanks to Books Abroad and all their generous donors.