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SOS Hermann Gmeiner Higher Secondary School, Itahari
SOS Hermann Gmeiner Higher Secondary School Itahari is a school located in Itahari Sub Metropolis Nepal. The School spanned in 8 Bigha area comprises ''Children Village'' (Orphanage), Community center and Higher Secondary School. The school students have got facilities of an open auditorium and a playground in the school premises. The School and children village facility was established under the global philanthropic partnership of SOS Children Villages established by Hermann Gmeiner an Austrian philanthropist. School The school runs classes from Nursery to grade 12. Over a thousand students from the orphanage as well as surrounding community study in the school. Children Village SOS Children Village, Itahari including the school was founded after the devastating Earthquake in 1988 in the eastern Nepal especially focusing the parentless students. The school has been providing parenting facilities to parentless children via the Children village. The children village has got an o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itahari
Itahari () is a sub-metropolitan city in the Sunsari District of Koshi Province in Nepal. Itahari city has grown as an important business hub of eastern Nepal. It is the second most populous city in eastern Nepal after Biratnagar. Situated 25 kilometres north of the provincial capital of Biratnagar, 16 kilometres south of Dharan and 92 kilometres west of Kakarbhitta, Itahari serves as a junction point of the east-west Mahendra Highway and the north–south Koshi Highway. Itahari has an estimated city population of 200000 living in 40,207 households as per 2021 Nepal census. It is one of the fastest-growing cities in Eastern Nepal. It is one of the cities of the ''Greater Birat Development Area'' which incorporates the cities of Biratnagar-Itahari-Gothgau- Biratchowk-Dharan primarily located on the Koshi Highway in Eastern Nepal, with an estimated total urban agglomerated population of 804,300 people living in 159,332 households. According to the Ministry of Federal Affairs an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SOS Children's Villages
SOS Children's Villages is an independent, non-governmental, nonprofit international development organization headquartered in Innsbruck, Austria. The organization provides humanitarian and developmental assistance to families facing difficulties and supports children and young people without parental care or at risk of losing it. The organization also protects their interests and rights around the world. Today, SOS Children's Villages is active in more than 130 countries and territories worldwide. SOS Children’s Villages offers alternative care options for children and young people. Additionally, SOS Children’s Villages advocates together with – and on behalf of – children and young people who have lost parental care or are at risk of losing it. SOS Children's Villages relies on contributions from governments and private donors. In 2017, the organization's 350 institutional partnership contracts totaled more than €31 million in institutional funds implemented. Fundin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Gmeiner
Hermann Gmeiner (23 June 1919 – 26 April 1986) was an Austrian philanthropist and the founder of SOS Children's Villages. Life Born to a big family of farmers in Vorarlberg (present-day Austria), Gmeiner was a talented child and won a scholarship to attend grammar school. His mother died while he was still a young boy, and his eldest sister Elsa took on the task of caring for the smallest of the children. Having experienced the horrors of war himself as a Wehrmacht soldier fighting in the USSR, he was then confronted with the isolation and suffering of the many war orphans and homeless children as a child welfare worker after the end of the Second World War. In his conviction that help can never be effective as long as the children have to grow up without a home of their own, he set about implementing his idea for SOS Children's Villages. With just 600 Austrian schillings (approx. 40 US dollars) in his pocket Hermann Gmeiner established the SOS Children's Village Associatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Nepal Earthquake
The 1988 Nepal earthquake occurred near the Nepal–India border on 20 August 1988 at 23:09:09 UTC. The epicenter was located in Udayapur District. Measuring 6.9, it was the largest earthquake recorded in the country since 1934. The death toll in Nepal and Bihar stood at 1,003. This was worsened by hillside erosion, landslide and floods, which increased the death toll by almost 300. There was significant damage to buildings and infrastructure including schools and hospitals, which left up to half a million people homeless, which had a significant impact of health and desolated the economy. This led to overcrowding and a lack of sanitation, which contributed to health conditions. Local and international response relief efforts were hindered by the heavy monsoon, mountainous terrain, infrastructure damage, lack of helicopters and uncoordinated response. Geology The entire region lies above two converging tectonic plates, the Indian and Eurasian plate. These plates are converging a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tharu People
The Tharu people are an ethnic group living in the Terai in southern Nepal and northern India. They speak Tharu languages. They are recognized as an official ethnicity by the Government of Nepal. In the Indian Terai, they live foremost in Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The Government of India recognizes the Tharu people as a Scheduled Tribes in India, scheduled Indian tribe. Etymology The word (''thāru'') is thought to be derived from ''Sthavira nikāya, sthavir'' meaning follower of Theravada Buddhism. The Tharu people in the central Nepali Terai see themselves as the original people of the land and descendants of Gautama Buddha. Rana Tharu people of western Nepal connect the name to the Thar Desert and understand themselves as descendants of Rajputs who migrated to the forests in the 16th century. Possible is also that the name is derived from the classical Tibetan words ''mtha'-ru'i brgyud'', meaning the 'country at the border', which the Tibetan scholar Taranatha u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musahar
Musahar or Mushahar () are a Dalit community found in the eastern Gangetic plain and the Terai. They are also known as Rishidev, Sada, Manjhi, ''Banbasi''. The other names of the Musahar are Bhuiyan and Rajawar. Origins and history Etymology In Bihar, the word Musahar is said to be derived from the Bhojpuri ''mūs+ahar'' (literally ''rat eater''), on account of their traditional occupation as rat catchers. Risley thinks that ''Musahar'' is the name that their Hindu masters gave them because of their non-Aryan and unclean habit of eating field mice. Nesfield preferred the word ''Mushera'' , based on an old folktale which signifies flesh-seeker or hunter. According to him, the word ‘Mushera’ (another variant of the term Musahar) derives from masu (flesh) and hera (seeker), possibly a more comprehensive term than 'rat-catcher'. Origins According to a local legend, Lord Brahma created man and gave him the horse to ride. The first Musahar decided to dig holes in the belly o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doms
The Doma (), also known as ''Dom'', ''Domra'', ''Domba'', ''Domaka'', ''Dombara'' and ''Dombari'', are castes, or groups, scattered across India. The Doma/Dom were a caste of drummers. According to Tantra scriptures, the Dom were engaged in the occupations of singing and playing music. Historically, they were considered an Untouchability, untouchable caste called the Dalit, Dalits and their traditional occupation was the disposal and cremation of dead bodies. The Doma were formerly classified as a Denotified Tribes, criminal tribe under the 1870s Criminal Tribes Acts of the British Raj. They are in the list of Scheduled caste for Reservation in India in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and West Bengal. Etymology Individuals who live by singing and music were referred to as Doma in Tantric scriptures. According to historian M.P Joshi, the word Duma is connected to the sound of a drum. Its presumed root, ''ḍom'', which is connected w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
