On Wednesday, May 14, the UES Collaboration Nation Connect Club joined forces with their amazing buddy school, Niten Memorial School / NAG, to take action for the planet! Together with support from the awesome team at Clean Up Nepal, these passionate students rolled up their...
The focus of Grade 10 Service Nepal was to build a house with earthbags for a family in need in the Dhading District. The students learned how to sew and fill earthbags and use them to build the structure of a house. It was hot...
The Grade 6 students began their first-ever Service Nepal trip in Nagarjun National Park! They spent Monday and Tuesday learning how to rock climb and participated in activities focused on teamwork and collaboration. On Wednesday, they began their overnight adventure in Chhaimale. Alongside the Hope...
Offering khata is a symbolically meaningful cultural tradition in Nepal and at Lincoln School. As part of the Global Goals course, 10th grade students designed and pitched solutions that both honor and reduce the environmental impact of this tradition. ...
The high school student organization PLUM aims to empower girls in Nepal by teaching lessons on menstrual health and hygiene and distributing menstrual products. At Lincoln School, the PLUM Care Baskets project supplies every female and gender-neutral bathroom on campus with free menstrual products, so...
PLUM is a student-led organization that promotes menstrual health and hygiene in Nepal. Last month, PLUM visited Kuleshwor Secondary School and delivered a lesson on menstrual health and hygiene to 14 sixth-grade students. At the end of the lesson, the team distributed PLUM Kits to...
Sustainability Saathi Day 5: Pottery! For our final day of the week, students learned about traditional pottery making in Nepal. The highlight of the day was definitely watching our visiting expert Sajan Prajapati from the Pottery Training Center demonstrate the pottery wheel and learning to use...
Students learned that there are environmental impacts of producing food products called water and carbon footprints. They discussed dal as a traditional food of Nepal and compared the environmental impact of producing dal with other foods. With the help of our Lincoln gardening expert, Kale,...
Students learned that the leaves from saal trees are used to make plates in Nepal and that we can support people who use their skills to create local biodegradable leaf plates for the community rather than buying plastic disposable plates. With the help of our...
Elementary students will spend the week exploring the essential question: What can we learn about environmental sustainability from traditional cultural practices in Nepal? We started the week with an introduction to sustainability from guest speakers Dr. Erica Udas and Barsha Rani Gurung from ICIMOD, followed...
