Landowner, Ram Manoj Tiwari: The women of the village are uneducated and unable to send their children to school due to poverty. Children from poor families can receive their education here.

Nepali volunteers who are involved in such a project for the first time built a sample house in Kathmandu as a form of preparation and launched a cash-for-work programme to recruit villagers in Lumbini. Although experienced volunteers unreservedly shared their skills, there were still many difficulties that arose.

Tzu Chi Malaysia volunteer, Teoh Paik Lim: It rained for several days from the third day on, but in order to complete the simple classrooms earlier for the preschool, the whole team decided to wear raincoats and rain boots to continue working. 

Tzu Chi Nepal volunteer, Maniram Bahadur Pradhan: The local volunteers are very hardworking. We hope to hand over these skills to them. If there is a need here in the future, they can do it themselves.

Bigyan, a policeman in Kathmandu, who was introduced to Tzu Chi two months ago deliberately applied for two weeks off to help out in Lumbini.

Volunteer, Bigyan Bhujel: I am happy that I learned a lot. I hope that I can join in this type of opportunity in the future, do volunteer work and help others to the best of my ability.

The preschool is about to be completed, which also means that children who are not in school will soon be able to go to a nearby school and transform their lives through education.