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China helps rebuild school
Suning Group Company Limited and China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA), has helped a school to reconstruct its building in Nagarjun Municipality in Kathmandu.Rastriya Samachar Samiti
Suning Group Company Limited and China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA), has helped a school to reconstruct its building in Nagarjun Municipality in Kathmandu.
The new building of Yuba Sahabhagita Secondary School was handed over recently. It is the first permanently re-built school supported by the Chinese people after the Gorkha Earthquake.
Around 700 students are benefitted from the school building.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of National Reconstruction Authority Govinda Pokharel,
Political Consular of the Embassy of China in Kathmandu Yang Shichao, Vice President of Suning Group Sun Weimin and Deputy Secretary General of CFPA Chen Hongtao, among others, were present at the handover ceremony.
School Headmaster Kamal Rimal thanked the Suning Group and CFPA for their support.
Consular Yang said such acts represent the new chapter of China-Nepal friendship under the Belt and Road Initiative.
Yuba Sahabhagita Secondary School was selected by CFPA from the list of 8,000 to-be-reconstructed schools provided by the Ministry of Education. ‘
CFPA has been active in Nepal to mobilise the Chinese people’s fund after the 2015 earthquakes.
It has carried out more than 15 projects, including disaster investigation, life rescue, food provision, disinfection treatment, health care and material distribution, so far.