The view of the Bamboo Schools Project is that all children should be given access to the fundamental right of education with no distinction made based on origin, caste, or religion.
The Bamboo School Project or Samata Shiksha Niketan (“Promote Equity through Education”) builds schools made with bamboo, a readily available, inexpensive, portable material and corrugated iron roofs.
Bamboo schools operate under the “private school” status and follow the national curriculum of Nepal. They are, for the most part, like an English medium school offering classes from nursery to grade 9. Tuition is a very affordable 100 NPR (1.25 USD) per month for all students.
The bamboo schools system is a middle way between the quality, but often unaffordable, private school system, and the inexpensive, but often deficient government school system.
Source:
Progress Report On Bamboo Schools (Samata Siksha Niketan) 25 November 2011, Revised in 2012
Prepared By Birendra Singh (Program Officer for Education Program, Nepal) Karuna-Shechen
http://karuna-shechen.org/pdf/en/project_reports/Bamboo%20Schools%20Progress%20Report%202012.pdf
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