Since all our team members hold the same status, we are currently working on building sanitary facilities for the school in the hometown of our colleagues Karna Bdr Sunuwar and Padam Sunuwar.

Shree Nawalpur Secondary School, with its 350 students and 20 teachers, had no sanitary installations until now.

Something that is almost unimaginable for us is, in remote mountain villages like this, often a harsh reality: students and teachers have to relieve themselves in nearby fields or forests. This is not only unhygienic, but especially for girls and women, also dangerous.

Because there was no existing infrastructure, we had to build everything from scratch – starting with a septic tank and including a 1,000-liter and a 5,000-liter water tank. We also had to draw water from a river located a 1.5-hour walk from the village. Building under such conditions and dealing with these distances constantly reminds us of the luxurious world we live in by comparison.

Once again, alongside the sanitary installations – which are part of our team’s daily work – the quality of the masonry, in both execution and precision, is outstanding and almost unimaginable by the standards in our part of the world.

We are proud that, together with Geberit International AG, we were able to make the “impossible possible” for these 350 students and 20 teachers by creating sustainable, functional sanitary facilities.

We are also very pleased to currently have two more members of our Nepal crew here in Switzerland for training. This time, it took only three weeks for Alisha Lamichhane and Khemraj Puri to receive their three-month travel visas – a truly encouraging step forward.