KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 8
The groundbreaking ceremony of a multi-purpose Indoor Sports Complex for Prithvi Narayan Secondary School was held in Tarkeshwor Municipality, Kathmandu, today.
The ceremony was chaired by Krishna Hari Maharjan, mayor of Tarkeshwor Municipality and a group of 22-member donor team from Korea as well as other close partners of the project such as Social Welfare Council, Centre for Education and Human Recourse Development, also jointed the event. About 1,200 students, teachers and parents became part of the groundbreaking ceremony of the most awaited Indoor Sports Complex.
The multi-purpose Indoor Sports Complex is 40.4 metres long, 25.4 metres wide, 10 metres high, and will have space that can accommodate 800 people at a time. The sports complex comprising basketball court, volleyball court, badminton court and table tennis will fulfil the sporting needs of the students and locals.
Moreover, it will benefit the social and cultural aspects of the community as well. Initially, it was planned to be built with a capacity to accommodate 600 people, but considering the increasing number of students, the capacity of the complex was increased to 800 people with the support of Humanscape Korea, a digital health startup in Korea.
The construction period is until April next year. The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by 22 people from Korea, including 12 representatives from Um Hong Gil Human Foundation, Chairman Lee Jaehoo, Executive Director Captain Um Hong Gil, and 10 representatives from Humanscape, the sponsoring company, including its CEO Chang Minhoo.
This is the 16th school supported by the Um Hong Gil Human Foundation, an INGO working in the education sector of Nepal since 2009. The foundation has been supporting the school with Rs 183 million for the last three years, for the construction of four buildings, including a primary, middle and high school building and a library building, and all buildings are scheduled to be completed early next year.
A version of this article appears in the print on November 9, 2022 of The Himalayan Times.
