Precasting of the school was done in about 5 weeks, a few months earlier under the supervision of Nirmal and Sonam. Foundations were done early September in about 2 days by Sonam and Nirmal with the community participation. The construction of the superstructure started on the 15^th September. Satprem arrived on the third day of the construction, the 18^th September, to coordinate the work and help for a speedy realization. After 16 working days the raw construction was over on the 2^nd October with the roof plaster, one classroom painted and some finishes. A closing ceremony of the construction site was done on the 2^nd October by various officials and engineers from the Ministry / Department of Education. Some finishes remained to be done, such as painting 1 classroom, and doing the flooring. This works would take about 2 days but it was not possible to do it now because of the festival of Dushain (equivalent to Christmas time), just starting at that time.

As a summary, 18 days were needed for the construction of this school (foundation, superstructure and some finishes) to which should be added 2 days for the last finishes.

On the 29^th September, a press conference with about 17 journalists was given by Sonam and Satprem at Nepalgung. On the 3rd and 4^th October Sonam, Nirmal and Satprem conducted a workshop in the freshly painted classroom of the school to 10 engineers from the department of Education on earthquake resistant and climatic responsive features. A construction dairy has been uploaded in this website: http://www.ms.dk/sw98936.asp

BASE coordinated the construction of this school in the framework of their project “Education for Freedom” (visit http://www.ms.dk/sw14581.asp) and mobilised the community participation. The school was funded by MS Nepal and it cost about 850,000 Nepalese Rs. (~8,500 Euros). The construction of this school was also done as a prototype, trying to convince the Ministry of Education to adopt the Auroville Earth Institute technology and the climate responsive features of Sonam to build 50,000 classrooms in the framework of their 5 years programme “Education for All”.

The construction of this school would not have been built without the endeavour of BASE and the active voluntarily participation of the Kamaya Community of Jantanagar. 17 paid masons, under training for this technology, and about 50 volunteers from the village worked on this construction site. It was a great time to work with these people who had joy, laughter and fun while building their school. It was amazing to see kids helping the construction of their own school and grand ma and grand pa working also for and with their grand children for building the school of futures generations to come.