A little step to a social change

Celebration of  world  Social Work day  2014

 A  Little  step to a  social  change:

Today  18th  March , we  students  and  faculties of  Nepal School of  Social work (  kadambari Memorial college  and  Nepal college of   development  Studies )   were   wondering  how  our   community engagement  program ,  the cleaning   of  Dhobikhola   river will turn up. Our  city  Kathmandu is  very  busy  with their  own  engagements. Some  organization and  colleges  we called  for the campaign   were not  sure  whether  they  should come to  such program. The  people  of the  Budha  Nagar  community were reluctant to  join the   program.

Around  10  am , we   heard a  many steps  of  young  feet coming  to  the  venue, the premises of  Butwal power company.  They were  the wonderful youth  of  Rose Bud  School.  Their  overwhelming  participation  made our  day. We also  had  a very  good  participation from  the  representative  from the  ward  police   station, Butwal  power company, Ward   office   and   the chief of   Kathmandu  metropolitan  city office.

We started the program with a small game with  the  students of Rose  bud  School and  begin  sharing   about  the  cleaning  campaign.

We  Kadambari  memorial college  and Nepal  college of development studies  have  just  moved  to  Budha  nagar. We  run  two   social science   bachelor  degree courses BSW and BASWRD. As  our  courses   equip  our  students  to  work with the community, we  have   started  college’s  own program  called  COLLEGE  WITH  COMMUNITY (CWC) . Our students  are placed in  the program of  CWC. They  develop the  concept paper,  develop the program and implement . This  will help them to  work in the real life  situation to  translate  their theories  into practice.

Dhobikhola  cleaning campaign is one of  CWC  project. We have  been  assigned  as a local coordinator  from  Kathmandu municipal city office (KMC)  for the  same purpose . We will be  working  closely with the   KMC and the community  to  clean  the river of our  community. We will be   registering  volunteers and  carry out the cleaning campaign  on  each Saturday 8-10 am  every Saturday.

Today  was  the  warming  up  session. We  hope , in  coming  days, we  will be  having  more  hands  to join  our  initiative. We  are  happy to  put a  first  step to  our long journey.  Hats off to  Students of  Nepal school of social work and  Rose  bud !