ac surkhet news letters (1)

American Corner Surkhet was established in part-nership and close Cooperation between The Em-bassy of the United States of America (USA) ,Kathmandu and Surkhet Chamber of Commerce &Industry (SCCI) Surkhet on Dec 12, 2012. TheSoft opening ceremony was held under the chairper-son, President of Surkhet Chamber of Commerce &Industry (SCCI) Mr. Padam Bahadur Shahi and dis-tinguished chief guest Mrs. Susan Burns Parker,Public Affair Officer, US. Embassy, Kathmanduand the honorable special guest Mr. Sarada ParsadTrital, Mid West Regional Administrator, Surkhet

American corner Surkhet serves as a window of lifeand culture in the United States of America. It is thefirst step for information seekers and students whowant to pursue Higher Education in the UnitedStates. It serves the community, with the motto infor-mation for Peace, Democracy and prosperity.

The Chief Guest Mrs. Susan M. Parker-Burns, Public Affairs Officer US em-bassy and special guest Mr. SharadaPrashad Trital Regional administratorOfficer of Mid-western region arejointly Cutting a ribbon in soft Open-ing Ceremony of American CornerSurkhet.

Introduction to AC-Surkhet

I N S I D E T H I SI S S U E :

Highlight of the AC 2

List of the program 2

Fun game in AC-Conversation Club

3

A Day Workshop on“Teaching LearningStrategies”

4

A three-day TeacherTraining Workshopon teaching English

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American Corner SurkhetA N N U A L R E P O R T – 2 0 1 4V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

American CornerSurkhet

“American

Corner

bringing :

America’s

Message to the

world”

P A G E 2

“American

Corners;

Information for

Democracy, Peace

& Prosperity”

Nepali girl with anAmerican girl(magazine ) atAmerican CornerSurkhet

# List of the best Program held on the American Corner Surkhet.

Inside Story Headline

Highlight of the AC

Children celebratetheir holiday in

American Corner byreading books

A M E R I C A N C O R N E R S U R K H E T

1 Number of Library Visitors 2586

2 Number of Program held 65

3 Number of Program Participants 2486

4 Outreach Program 6

5 Embassy Visit 3

6 Total Face book like 1853

S/N Title Presenter Date Attendance Comment

1 Book Exhibition on “EducationalFair 2070-MidWestern".

AC-Staff ( Hird-esh Kumar K.C)

December 13 to22 December,2013

Above1,000,00

The number ofstudent teachers &scholars werehigher than ourexpectation

2 Movie Show & Poetry Recita-tion Program.

AC-Staff ( Hird-esh Kumar K.C)

15th February2014

35 Children were sohappy to watchmovie with theirsame age friends.

3 Outreach Presentation on D.V.Lottery & Student Visa.

US. Embassy'sConsular Out-reach unit

17th April 2014 100 Information aboutD.V. & student visato USA.

4 A Three –Day Teacher Train-ing Workshop on TeachingEnglish.

Mr. Ganga RamGautam

26th April 2014 20 the program wasabout the teachertraining workshoporganized byInternationalCommunity De-velopment Forum

5 An orientation Program onWebinar and E-TeacherCourse.

Ms. Sara Denne-Bolton (RELO)and Mr. BishwoGautam(US.Embassy)

4th and 5th No-vember, 2014

58 The program wasfor the Englishlanguage teachersand based onWebinar and E-Teacher Coursewhich was reallynew for the par-ticipant.

# Statistical Data

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“American Corner

bringing :

America’s Message

to the world”

American CornerSurkhet ‘s B-boyingcrew

Outreach Program via Book Bus.

Book Exhibition on "Educational Fair 2070- Mid-WesternOn 2013, from December 13 to December 22American Corner Surkhet Participated in"Educational Fair 2070- Midwestern" for Book andBook Bus Exhibition. On the exhibition we dis-played verities of books, American Posters, Maga-zines, English movies and gave more and moreinformation about English history, culture andlanguage. Also we demonstrated e-book kin-dle and distributed English book, magazineand bookmakers to the students and visitors.

During the Exhibition the main attractive thingwas our Book Bus. Many of the visitors wereso amazed to know this bus. By this exhibi-tion we gave more information of sevenAmerican corner located in Nepal includingAmerican Library, Kathmandu— at Birendrana-gar surkhet.

On Wednesday, 18 December 2013, Ameri-can Corner Surkhet visit six different schoolsof Surkhet valley with book bus. During thevisiting program, many students were at-tracted towards this bus. In this program wedisplay verities of books, journals and gavemore information about book bus and clari-fied its purpose. Also we demonstrated e-book kindle toward them.

At the program we donated packets of booksto each school and gave more information ofseven American Corner located in Nepalincluding American Library, Kathmandu. —at Birendranagar surkhet.

Book Exhibitation Campaignprogram in Shree Shaskrit

H.S.S, Itram Surkhet ( 17-20January 2013)


Book exhibition on Nepal Trade and EducationalFair 2070.

Children with the Book Bus , during the book &Bus exhibition.

Group photo with the students, teachers and Peace Corps volunteer after the program

Christmas Day Celebration-2014.P A G E 4V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

On December 25, 2013, American CornerSurkhet Celebrate Christmas Day by organ-ized various program at AC, around 50 stu-

dents and teachersfrom different schoolparticipated in this pro-gram. During the pro-gram participant gotmore fun by watchingmovie, singing a Christ-mas song and playingtrivia quiz. At the pro-gram all participants gotChristmas gift andChristmas cake.

On16, January 2014, AmericanCorner Surkhet celebrate NationalEarthquake Day by organized aspecial awareness program aboutearthquake. During the programMr. Yagya Prasad Bhattrai, Lec-turer of Mid-West University(M.U.) created public awarenesson disaster risk reduction aboutearthquake. We also distributebook and printed materials to thestudents about earthquake.

The National Earthquake SafetyDay is a day to raise awarenessand share information and ex-periences on disaster/earthquaker i s k r e d u c t i o n

Any sudden movement of aposition of the earth's crust dueto a natural cause which pro-duces a shaking or trembling isk nown as ea r thquake .

Dhulyabit played a vital role tomake this program successful.We are very thankful to Mr. Nam-raj Dhakal, President of GoodGovernance Youth Club Dhuly-abit for their coordinating. Wetoo, expect such a helping handsof this Club to conduct variousprogram in the future.

On 7th January 2014, American CornerSurkhet Organized a Book DonationProgram at Shree Shiva Higher Secon-dary School, Jarbuta VDC, Surkhet incoordination with Good GovernanceYouth Club Dhuliyabit Surkhet. Duringthe program we gave information aboutAmerican Corner and made studentsaware of earthquake and its affects.We did also provide the informationto the students how to be safe in thatsituation by provided Disaster RiskEducational materials. In the programwe made a trivia Quiz too.

Good Governance Youth Club

Book Donation at Shree Shiva Higher Sceondary School.

16th Earthquake Safety Day Celebrated

Celebrating16th Earth-quakeSafety Dayby publicaware .( Outreachprogram onSupreme “

During the outreach program at Shree ShivaHigher Secondary School.

P A G E 5

“American corner

Surkhet serves as a

window of life and

culture in the

United States of

America.”

During drawing

Competition at AC-

Surkhet

Movie Club at AC-Surkhet

Library Visiting Program ( Sahara Campus)Surkhet 2014-01-28

Celebration Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2014-01-20On Monday, January 20,2014 , American CornerSurkhet Celebrate a MartinLuther King Jr. Day by organ-ized various program at AC-Surkhet. During the programan American Citizens Ms.Hannah Marqusee from PeaceCrop Volunteer introducedKing Martin Luther jr., hisCivil Right Act and shealso described Luther'sfamous Speech "I Have aDream".

In the program we dis-

played Martin Luther fa-mous speech "I Have aDream". At the end of theprogram all participantsshared their dreams witheach other. There werealtogether 55 student,teachers and Americancitizens attendant in pro-

short film “Jungle book” byRudyard Kipling readingbooks of the corner. Be re-minded that this campus isthe first institutional memberof American Corner Surk-het.

On Tuesday January 28, 2014,American Corner Surkhetinvited students from SaharaCampus for Library visitingprogram . During the programAC-Staff gave information tothe students about AmericanCorners and clarified its objec-tives. In the corner all stu-dents enjoyed watching a

On January 25, 2014 AmericanCorner Surkhet made a movie clubat AC-Surkhet. At the club stu-dents gathered from differentschool & watched a move "ToyStory-3". After the movie studentsintroduced their self and sharedtheir views about movie. —at American Corner Surkhet.

Excitedly watching the book" The Gunnies World Record

2014" at AC-Surkhet.


Holiday Celebration at AMC-Surkhet 01-02-2014

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On Ist February 2014, AmericanCorner Surkhet Organized a Spe-cial Program “ Holiday Celebrationat AMC Surkeht” to students. In

the program children from differentschools came to American CornerSurkhet to celebrate their holiday.During the program children werefacilitate by the AC-Staff. Theywere so happy by reading books,magazines, watching movies andplaying on-line games. Students gotso much fun by celebration of theirholiday at AC-Surkhet. Throughthis program students becomeadmired of American Corner Surk-het and wanted participate again insuch programs organized byAmerican Corner.

nator of City Child Forum andMr. Hirdesh Kumar K.C. AC-Staff of American CornerS u r k h e t

In Coordination of Mr. Hird-esh K.C. five member advi-sory board members wasformed. There are Ms. Han-nah Marqusee from Peace

On 8th February 2014 AmericanCorner Surkhet and City ChildForum's joint effort AC-Child Club(AC3) Surkhet was formed atAmerican corner Surkhet. UnderMr. Bijaya Bhandari's Presidency, 15members Executive committee wasformed. The program was facili-tated by Mr. Tilak Poudel, Presi-dent of City Child Forum, Mr.Binod Kandel, Program Coordi-

Crop Volunteer, Mr.Tilak Poudel Presidentof City Child Forum, Mr.Binod Kandel ProgramCoordinator of CityChild Forum and Mr.Kumar Thapa fromSafer Society —at American CornerSurkhet.

4th February 2014.

On the occasion of BasantaPanchami American CornerSurkeht celebrated Saraswati Pujaby worshipping The Goddess Saras-wati ( The Goddess of Knowledge )In this occasion aroung 55 studentscame to celebrate the saraswatiPooja at our corner. They worshipthe Goddess Saraswati and offeredparsad.

Saraswati pooja celebration at AMC-Surkhet - 04-02-2014

American Corner's Child Club (AC3) Formation

One of the participate students use 3D

glass to watch movie on 3D.

P A G E 7

“American corner

Surkhet serves as a

window of life and

culture in the

United States of

America

PC Volunteer gave a fruitful presentation about theLincoln on Lincoln Day.

Movie Show and Poetry Recite Program with AC3 Club 02/15/2014

Book discussion and Movie show 02/22/2014

Lincoln Day Celebration at AC-SurkhtOn 12th February 2014, Ameri-can Corner Surkhet CelebrateLincoln Day by organized variousprogram at AC-Surkhet such asTrivia Quiz , Video Documen-tary displaying Lincoln and bookdonated to City Child ForumSurkhet. During the program AnAmerican Citizen Ms. HannahMarqusee (Peace Corps Volun-teer ) gave a fruitful presentationabout the Lincoln.

NESS WORLD RECORDS2014”. Students were dividedinto two groups and they dis-cussed the books . At the endof the program all studentsshares their views and ideasabout the book.

On 22nd February 2014,American Corner Surkhetorganized a program “GroupDiscussion for the Children”.American Corner Child Club(AC3 ) Club’s member/ stu-dents participated in this pro-gram. During the program allstudents got-together anddiscussed the book “ GUIN-

On 15th February 2014, AmericanCorner Surkhet organized a “Movie Show and Poetry Recite”program in coordination with theAC3 The Club member took partsto recite their own written poem.After the poetry recitation , Ameri-can Corner Surkhet displayed themovie “AVATAR” on the requestof the students. All students got somuch fun by watching the movie.

Children are familier with newtechnology e-book kindle at

American corner Surkhet.


Bharat Bhushal AC3 Vice President share his poem tohis friends.

Group photo after the pro-gram “ Observance of

237th Independence Day ofthe USA. ( 9th July 2013)

Child Assembly and Project Work of SOS's Children at AC-SurkhetP A G E 8V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

9th March 2014, Surkhet , Students from SOS's Surkhet came to American Corner Surkhet for their project work. On their project worksthey had to come American corner surkhet and researched the questions' answer given by their class teacher about America.

During their visit at corner AC-staff helped them to find out their questions' answer from the library and e-library USA. After finishing theirproject work he introduced them to AC3 Club and its member. After that, all children got-together at assembly hall of AC and discussed ingroup how to learn and utilize resources available at AC. During their assembly the president of District Child Forum Mr. Tilak Kandel alsofacilitated them about Child right, child abuse and child marry via picture display.

Through this project work the students of SOS and AC3 members were able to answer the following questions.

1. Name of all the presidents of America.

2. Any ten names of most famous American literary writers.

3. Any ten most famous places of America.

4. Any five most famous Universities of America.

5. Any five most famous American Scientists.

Also they got an opportunity to learn more things via this project work like as ;

1. What is library and what is the important of library? ·

2. What is team work and How to manage team in work? ·

3. What are child abuse, child right and social problems?

obstacles also people can reach upto their target if they have strongdesire to fulfill and the benefit ob-tain from a good teamwork.

Two daring Nepalese adventureswho did something that no one hasever dared to do. They did some-thing that was considered impossi-ble. Their adventure got them theaward " People's Choice Adven-turer of the Year 2012", which is aprestigious title awarded by Na-tional Geographic. Yes, their Jour-ney involved climbing world's high-

On 29 March 2014, American Cor-ner surkhet Organized a specialprogram "Nepali Adventures SanoBabu sunuwar and Lakpa TsheriSherpa from Everest to Sea". In theprogram corner displayed a videodocumentary about their journeyand interviews.

The main aim of the program wasto inspire the participants from theBabu and Lakpa's Adventures jour-ney Everest to Sea that, with many

est peak. Mount Everest.Many have alreadyclimbed to reach its peakand just climbing it does-n't make their journeyextra special. So, thejourney of our two ad-venturers doesn't end atthe peak. It is how theydescended from the "Roof of the World" toreach the nearest Sea.

Captiondescribingpicture orgraphic.

“Nepali Adventurers Sano Babu Sunuwar And Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa From Everest to Sea".

P A G E 9

“American Corner

Surkhet ;

Information for

Peace , Prosperity

& Democracy”.

Students form DV. NIketan attheir Library visiting Program.

Story Telling and Conversation Club

B-boying Dancing Club.

A Two-Day Training/Workshop on TeachingOn 21st and 22nd March 2014, AmericanCorner Surkhet and NELTA Branch Surk-het jointly organized a program "A Two-Day Training/Workshop on Teaching Pro-nunciation" in Surkhet at Mahesh Hotel.The Training session was facilitated by KateMiller: Teacher Trainer from UK, DipendraKhatri: TrainerCo-ordinator NELTABranch, Surkhet and Khagendra Thapa :Advisor NELTA Branch, Surkhet. ThirtySeven (37) English teachers from differentschools and colleges of Surkhet districtwere took part in the training.

reer. Every Saturday andholiday's time the club mem-ber got together in the cluband danced with a crew.Now we have a nine memberin our B-boying DancingClub.

On 5th April 2014 AmericanCorner Surkhet formed a "B-boys dancing club" at AmericanCorner Surkhet in collabora-tion with local boys group,who are very interested in B-boying. American CornerSurkhet provided them plat-forms to build their danceperformance and dancing ca-

In the second session, thegroup of seven girls includingthe Peace Corps Volunteer'Hanna Marqucees' attendedthe program and shared theirreading story with full expres-sion. The program was facili-tated by AC's Staff and at theend of the program I.O told atraditional story about an "OldMan and Old Woman" to allparticipants which made a lotof fun on their faces.

On April 2nd 2014, AmericanCorner Surkhet organized aspecial program for children"Storytelling and ConversationClub". The program was di-vided into two groups; for theboys and girls; In the firstgroup we gathered boys andlet them read small scholasticstory books from the library toincrease their English readingcapacity, After reading booksall students shared their read-ing story in the mass.

During Outreach programatSOS , Valley Surkhet .


B-Boying Dancer at AmericanCorner Surkhet.

Conversation Club

P A G E 1 0V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

On 12th April 2014 American Cor-ner Surkhet formed a ConversationClub to their library members andEnglish language lovers. The mainobjective of this club is to improve

English Language,listening, writing,speaking skill, tomake new friendsand frequently con-tact with each mem-ber. Now we haveeleven members inthis club. On every

Saturday Club members gathers inAC for the conversing on newtopics and issues.

actively participate in the program.During this program he briefed thepresent stage of Nepal's wildlife anddiscussed how to save wildlife. TheHangout was closed with questionanswer session.

On 18th April 2014, AmericanCorner Surkhet joined a liveGoogle Hangout Presentation onWild Life Conservation. The pro-gram was presented by Mr.Prasanna Yonzon, CEO of WildlifeConservation Nepal (WCN). In theprogram Mr. Yonzon gave us afruitful presentation on the topicWildlife Conservation. Around 25students, teachers' scholars, busi-nessman and government officers

This program focused on the pro-cedures to prevent visa relatedfraud and also encourage studentsseeking in formation related to U.S.Colleges and scholarship opportuni-ties to visit the United States Edu-cation Foundation (USEF). The info.sessions was closed with questionanswer session.

On 17th April 2014, AmericanCorner Surkhet and US- Embassy'sConsular Outreach Unit jointlyorganized a program" OutreachPresentation on D.V. lottery andStudents Visa Information". In thisprogram Mr. Micah Shybag, Mr.Sushant Shrestha and Ms.KusumChitrakar (TBD) Outreach Consu-lar gave a fruitful presentation onrelated topic. Around 100 students,teachers, scholars, businessman andgovernment officers actively partici-pated in this program.

Conversa-tion Club’smembersduring con-versationon relatedtopic.

Outreach Presentation on D.V. lottery and Students Visa Information.

Google Hangout Presentation on Wildlife Conservation.

Playing a Card game during Conversationclub.

Participant of Wildlife conservation presenta-tion at AC-Surkhet

Presentation on D.V. lottery & Student Visa.

P A G E 1 1

“American Corner

window on

America “

One of the participant shareher story during story tell-ing and conversation pro-gram.

A three-day Teacher Training Workshop on teaching English

Earth Day -2014 CelebrationOn the occasion of the EarthDay-2014, AC-ConversationClub's members organized aspecial program to celebrateEarth Day. In the program clubmember got some dustbinfrom the corner & gave them aname like give me paper, giveme plastic and give me com-post. Club member alsoplanted some flower & wa-tered. At the end of the pro-gram, all member collectedsolid Waste from the gardenand put it in the dustbin anddiscussed on the topic.

Ganga Ram Gautam a profes-sor of English at TribhuvanUniversity, Kathmandu, Nepal.

This program was based ononline training. Mr. Gautamgaves a fruitful presentation toall the participants about theonline resources from theofficial English language websitewww.americanenglish.state.gov. He also described themethod of good pronunciationand demonstrated a gameTrace Effect and other Englishlanguage games to the partici-

pants. Through this program,all participant were well famil-iar with the English languages i t ewww.americanenglish.state.govand are able to use its onlineresources in their classes.Twenty English teachers from10 Community schools and 7institutional schools partici-pated the program.

On 26th April 2014 Interna-tional Community Develop-ment Forum organized a pro-gram for English teacher ofSurkhet valley "Three-dayTeacher Training Workshopon teaching English" at Ameri-can Corner Surkhet, maximiz-ing the resources of theAmerican Spaces to enhanceEnglish language skills of theStudents. This program wassponsored by the U.S. EmbassyKathmandu, Nepal and theprogram was facilitated by Mr.

Question answering sessionon Teacher’s Day program .

( 22th July 2013)


Celebrating Earth Day-2014 with conversation Club members

“ some particular glance during Three –day Teacher Training Workshop on Teaching English”

P A G E 1 2

“American Corner

bringing :

America’s Message

to the world”


Book Donation to YUWA Club

Fun Game in AC- Conversation Club.On 3rd May 2014, AC-ConversationClub Coordinator Ms. Hannah Mar-qusee (Peace Corps's Volunteer) or-ganized the program a Card Game'Anomia' in American Corner Surk-het for the Club members. This gamewas really awesome. All members ofthe Club actively participated in thegame. Through this game partici-pated member knew new words ofthe English language and also usedthese words in the ir own.— at American Corner Surkhet.

On May 4th 2014 , American Corner Surkhetdonated some books from their own library toJana Praya Yuva Club, Jarbuta 4, Surkhet. Anewly established club as well as a library intheir VDC, to encourage their works and builda library in the VDC.

— at American Corner Surkhet.

Book Exhibitation Cam-paign program in Shree

Shaskrit H.S.S, ItramSurkhet ( 17-20 January


Club members playing Card game & discussing ingiven subject matter by coordinator Hanna Marqusee.

Book received by the YUWA Club Presi-dent and Secretary.

Group photo with the students, teachers and Peace Corps volunteer after the program

A Day Workshop on "Teaching Learning Strategies".P A G E 1 3V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

A Day Workshop on ‘TeachingLearning Strategies’ was accom-plished on May 17, 2014. The pro-

gram was conducted with the collaboration of Usha BalVatika and American Corner Surkhe. This program wasattended by 30 teachers of the respective school. Of vari-ous strategies of teaching learning, project based learn-ing along with objective of education and teaching wasmainly discussed. Moreover, how both teachers andstudents can be benefited from American Corner Surk-het and the website www.americanenglish.state.gov wasd e a l t a s o u t r e a c h p r o g r a m .

The program organized at Hotle Valley View and wasfacilitated by the executive member of AC Surkhet, Mr.

Mukunda Kumar Giri and chaired by Mr. Sagar Bhusal, chairperson of SMC ofUsha Bal Vatika Surkhet.

game with fun as a friend. Alto-gether there were 15 participantsat that game. The program wasfacilitated by AC- Staff Mr. Hird-esh Kumar K.C.

On 24 May 2014, American Cor-ner Surkhet organized a gamefor the library visitors that gamewas "Cathy's Cards Game"during playing that game theyspeak English with eachother .With the fun of game theylearn to speak English. The par-ticipants were from different agegrouping even Mother anddaughter were also playing

On 23 May 2014, American Corner Surkhet and YUWA,Nepal, jointly organized a program "Outreach Presenta-tion on www.sajilosip.org and video screening on mush-room farming at American Corner Surkhet. This course-ware was designed to provide various practical skills +technical knowledge on disciplines like agriculture, infor-mation technology, health, socio-economy and so forth.The program was facilitated by Mr. Sandeep Gurung andSabin Rimal from YUWA, NEPAL. Around 60 participantsactively participated this program

Outreach presentation on www.sajilosip.org & Mushroom farming

Cathy’s Card Game with Library Visitors.PlayingCathy’sCard gamewith fun.

Libraries allow

children to ask

questions about the

world and find the

answers. And the

wonderful thing is

that once a child

learns to use a

library, the doors to

learning are always

open.

(Laura Bush)

Group photo after the program

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“ The Library is

not only a fun

place to go, it’s a

place to connect,

to share, to grow

& help other

expand their

horizons.”

- Lynee T.

During teacher DayCelebration ( on 12thJulay 2014) at Ameri-can Corner surkhet

Students love to readingbooks at American Corner

Dancing Program at American Corner SurkhetOn 24th May 2014, American CornerSurkhet organized a dance program at AC-Surkht. This program was for entertain-ment purpose. Altogether 20 library visi-tors actively participated the program.During the program they also sang a songand danced. The participants were fromdifferent age groups. After the programthey understood that American CornerSurkhet is not only a place for studyingbooks, but also for different kind of enter-tainment.

American Corner For Project Work.On 2th June 2014, Students from ShreeSanti Deep Higher Secondary School,Surkhet visited American Corner Surk-het for their Project work. On their pro-ject work, they came to American Cor-ner Surkhet and researched in particularsubject matter given by their classteacher. During their visit at, Corner AC-Staff helped them to find out their ques-tion's answers from the library and e-library USA. After finishing their workAC-Staff briefly introduced them theperforming activities , resources and theprogram lunched by AC-Surkhet.

Students are searching their subject matter in books.

Screened A Fifa World Cup 2014 Opening Ceremony at AC-SurkhetOn 12th June 2014 American Corner Surkhetscreened Fifa World Cup 2014 Opening Ceremonyat American Corner Surkhet's movie hall. On therequest of AC- Club members and the ball lovers ofour community we screened The Fifa World Cup2014 Opening Ceremony at AC-Surkhet. During theprogram all participant members were so excited towatch the Fifa World Cup 2014 at our big Screenmovie hall. All participants became admirers ofAmerican Corner Surkeht and wanted to join such aprogram again hosted by AC-Surkeht. Altogether18 members participated the program.

— Screening Fifa World Cup 2014 at AC-Surkhet


One of the participant performing a dance during theDancing Program

“Google Hangout Presentation about US. Independence Day”

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On 24th June 2014, American corner Surkhet & US.Embassy Kathmandu, Nepal jointly organizes aGoogle hangout presentation program about Ameri-can Independence Day. The key speaker of theprogram is Mr. Andrew J Nelson, PhD, MissionEconomist, USAID/NEPAL. In the program Mr. Nel-son introduced the history about the US. Independ-ence Day. The program was very effective for thestudents. Students and teachers interacted with Mr.Andrew J. Nelson very actively. Mr. Nelson intro-duced the history about the US. Independence Day.Including the class teacher of SOS, Surkhet around48 students were actively participated in the pro-gram. — at American Corner Surkhet.

On June 30th 2014 American CornerSurkhet organize a different program forAC3 (American Corner Child Club) mem-ber like as poetry recite, cards game,singing & dancing. All together 15 activemembers were participate in the program.The program was facilitated by AC- StaffMr. Hirdesh Kumar K.C.

AC-Child Club

Mr. Bijya Bhandari president of AC3 recite hispoem in the program

Happy 4th of July 2013 ( 2037th Independence Day )

During Google Hangout Presentation on US. Independence Day

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“American corner

Surkhet serves as a

community, with

the motto

information for

Peace, Democracy

and prosperity.

During Poetry recitationprogram at AmericanCorner Child Club (AC3).

Girls from Child Club sings asong during US. Independ-

ence Day Celebration.


On June 26th 2014 American Corner Surkhet welcome the Students from D.V Niketan for"Interaction & library visiting program" at American Corner Surkhet. During their visit AC-Staff gave fruitful presentation about American Corner Surkhet its objective, activities , e-library U.S.A. & its services. Through this program we encourage the students to come ourlibrary in every weekend & join in our AC- Club. In the program our AC-Child Club vice-President Mr. Bharat Bhusal also clarified the objective of child club and described how theyare benefited from this club.

In the second session of the program students were divided into two group and do their projectwork which was given by their class teacher at American Corner Surkhet.

— atAmerican Corner Surkhet.

Interaction & library visiting program with DV Niketan's Children

WOW- expression of the students during exhibition of the book on title “ WOW”.

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“American Corner

bringing :

America’s Message

to the world”


Happy Teacher Day

4th of July 2014 CelebrationOn the occasion of 4th of July, 2014 AmericanCorner Surkhet Celebrated 238th AmericanIndependence Day by organizing various pro-gram at AC-Surkhet with our club members.The main guest of the Program was Ms. Han-nah Marqusee (Peace Corp Volunteer) deliversa short speech about American history andAmerican Independence day.

In the second session of the program partici-pated students were engaged in various pro-gram with fun like singing, dancing and TriviaQuiz and at the end of the program we servean American food to all.


Group photo of theAmerican Corner Child

Club (AC3) at AC-Surkhet’s Movie hall.


Celebration of 238th U.S. Independence Day on 4thof July.

some particular glance during the program “Happy Teacher Day”.

On the occasion of the Teacher Day ( 12th July2014 ) American Corner Surkhet celebrate ateacher day by organized a program "HappyTeacher Day" at AC-Surkhet with DV. NIketan& AC-Child Club. During the program AC-StaffMr. Hirdesh Kumar K.C. gave short presenta-tion about the Teacher day and the important ofthe teacher in our life. Students decorate theAC with flowers and they bring a gift for theteacher (AC-Staff). In program all participatedstudent makes fun and enjoyed a program byplaying in guitar, singing and dancing .— at American Corner Surkhet

Child Club members gave a gift to AC-Staff on theoccasion of Teacher Day.

Outreach Program at SOS, SurkhetP A G E 1 8V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

On 26th July 2014, American Cor-ner Surkhet organize an OutreachProgram about Women Empower-ment in SOS valley Surkhet. Thekey speaker of the program, Ms.Hannah Marqusee (Peace CorpsVolunteer), give a fruitful presenta-tion about the girl education andshe briefly introduced the docu-mentary video about the womenempowerment. In the programaltogether 55 girls from class 9, 11& 12 took participate along threevolunteer teachers from the sameschool. This program was divided

into three sections. In the first sec-tion we screened the video docu-mentary on title "Girl Rising" aboutwomen empowerment. The secondsection was group discussion; wedivided the students into fourgroups and give them related ques-tions about the video. In the lastsection of the program the leaderof each group gives a speech aboutthe video and about how can wechange the world through girl'seducation.

During the program AC-Staff Mr.Hirdesh Kumar K.C also give a

presentation about the AC and heencourages the girls to comeAmerican Corner and take advan-tage of the books and corner re-sources. American Corner Surkhetis very thankful to SOS, Surkhet forthe great supports to success ourprogram & the wonderful volun-teering. —

American Corner B-Boying Club members.

“ some particular glance during the movie shows , group discussion and presentation on Outreach Program at SOS, Surkhet.

American Corner Child -Club members.

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“American corner

Surkhet serve sthe

community, with

the motto

information for

Peace, Democracy

and prosperity”

During Children Day Cele-bration at American CornerSurkhet.

Book Discussion Program

American Corner Child Clubin the meeting at AC-

Surkhet.


On 27th July 2014, American CornerSurkhet organized a "Book Discussion "program at American corner Surkhet. Thetitle of the book is "The Old Man and TheSea" by Earnest Hemingway. In the pro-gram altogether 8 English teacher tookparticipate along Corner staff. Last weekcorner provide the same book to eachparticipant for the discussion. The objec-tive of the program was to build a readinghabit and to enhance the summarizingcapability in English language.

The program starts with giving introductionto each other. Different participants sum-marize the story and the theme of thebook in different ways. Some of partici-

pants also criticize each other views. As a wholethe program was very successful and the partici-pant were so excited to join such a discussion pro-gram again and again and they were very thankfulto American Library , Kathmandu to provide bookand suggest American Corner to organize such aprogram again in future.

American Corner Surkhet was very glad to wel-come Dr. Shree Ram Prasad Upadhya in the dis-cussion Program. In the program Dr. Upadhyashare his own story in different way that how read-ing habit can change our life style and how to man-age time to read book and some important tech-niques to enhance our reading & writing habit

— atAmerican Corner Surkhet.

Library Visiting Program (Mile Stone Secondary School)On 1st August 2014 , Students fromMile Stone Secondary School, visitedAmerican Corner Surkhet in their Educa-tional tour. During their visit AC-Staffgave information to the students &teachers about the American CornerSurkhet and clarified its objectives.

Student & Teacher looks happy after visiting the Visit AC.

Dr. Shree Ram Prasad Upadhya share his view & points of the book to other member in the book

Club


an American author of novels andshort stories, He is widely regardedas one of the greatest Americanwriters of the 20th century —at American Corner Surkhet.

On August 21, about 28 studentscame to American corner Surkhetto the Movie Club with Englishteacher Mr. Khagendra Thapa fromAmar Jyoti Namuna Higher Secon-dary School, Neware, Surkhet. Onthe request of the student wescreened the movie "The GreatGatsby". This movie was taken bythe famous Novel "The GreatGatsby" by F.Scott Fitzgerald. He is

On 9th August 2014, American Corner Surk-het organized a program “ Drawing Competi-tion” Collaboration with AC3 (American Cor-ner Child Club) . The purpose of the programwas to encouraged all the children on creativeart. Altogether 20 children participate in theprogram.

. — at American Corner Surkhet.

Drawing Competition

Movie Screening (The Great Gatsby) by F. Scott Fitzgerald

MR. Sagar Bhushal member ofAC3 share his view & sympathy to

the flood victim of Surkhet.

On Saturday August 16, 2014 American Corner Surkhet Organized a Speech programon "Group Discussion about flood of Surkhet". The program was conducted with thecollaboration of AC-Surkhet Child Club and American corner was attended by 25 stu-dent age group 12 -17. In the program students share their views & thought about lastnight flood which they nearly experienced in their community how the flood has cameand the destroy the whole community beside the Itram Khola and KhorkeKhola. During the program, AC-Staff convey the students to help the victim peoplewhose houses were swept away by flood and landslide. At the end of the program allparticipated gave a deep sympathy to victim people and promise to help them.

On Friday, August 15, 2014, last night the Surkhet district experienced heavy rainfalland flooding. According to the news update around 300 hundreds homes swept away,129 missing, 29 confirmed dead. Power has been shut down. Roads and bridge arebroken.

Group Discussion about Flood of Surkhet

Students from Shree Amar Jyoti Higher Secon-dary School (Class –12) in movie show program.

During drawing competition at American Corner Surkhet.

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“American

Corner bring;

America’s

Message to the

World”

PC-Volunteer Mr. SteaveFoster donates a book"Hollywood" to theAmerican Corner Surk-het, received AC-Staff.

Book Discussion Program at AMC-Book club .On 23th August 2014, Ameri-can Corner Surkhet organized“ Book Discussion “ Programat American Corner Surkhet.During the program participantcan read any book available inthe corner and at the end ofthe program they shared theviewsand theme of the book.In the program altogether 11club member took participatealong corner staff.

American Corner ChildClub (AC3) President Mr.

Bijaya Bhandari was in Poetrecitation program at AC-

Surkhet.


Readers are in the book discussion program.

Book Donation Program on 7th Library Day 2071

On 31th August 2014 American Corner Surkhet Celebrate 7th Library Day 2071 by organized a Book Dona-tion Program at AC-Surkhet. In this auspicious occasion we invite our nearest community schools whohelped us in different way. The program was started by the welcome speech given by AC-Staff. During theprogram Mr. Padam Bdr. Shahi ( President of SCCI & AC-Surkhet) handover the donated books to ShreeAmar Jyoti Namuna Higher Secondary School, Shree Jana Jyoti Higher Secondary School, Ghursha & SupremeAcademy Secondary School, Surkhet. He also speak about the important of library & promise that AmericanCorner Surkhet is always open for them if they need any essential help from us. Mr. Prakash Adhikari(Industrial Vice-President of SCCI-Surkeht & Executive member of AC-Surkeht) illuminates the theme ofAmerican Corner Surkhet and thanks to all guest schools for their essential helps to American Corner Surk-het. At the end of the program guest school gave thanks of vote to AC-Surkhet team and admired the workdone by AC for their schools.

Outreach Program @Shree Jagganath-Devi Primary School, Uttarganga


On 9th September 2014, AmericanCorner Surkhet accomplished anOutreach Program at Shree Jagga-nath-Devi Primary School, Uttar-

ganga Surkhet. In our officialvisit we give information aboutAmerican Corner and its pur-pose to school administrators &accomplished our different edu-cational program with school.From the side of AMC we do-nate some scholastic books,copy and wall-posters for thes c h o o l .

During this program with thehelp of students and the teach-ers we decorate a class by thewall-poster and drawing. Stu-dents were looks very happy &

glad by our present at theirschool. The program was verysuccess.

M y s i n c e re t ha nk s t oMs.Hannaha Marqusee (PeaceCorp) Volunteer for her greathelp. At the same time I shouldnot forget to express my grati-tude to Mr.Kushab Acharya(Asst. Teacher) & his wholeteam Shree Jagganath- DeviPrimary School, Uttargangasurkhet.— at Uttarganga, Surkhet, Nepal.

girl's trainer.

All participants wrote poem aboutchild right & child labor. During theprogram participated children weregiven an opportunity to express theirtalent & skill, without any delay theygrab the opportunity and show theirhidden talent dancing, singing andmaking jokes. Mr. Jitendra Budha( an English teacher from D.V.) andMr. Maniram Timelsena ( a Mathteacher from Supreme Academy) asa guest they admire the children tal-

ents & skills also they give thanks to AMCand said that American Corner Surkhetinspired the children to learn many goodthings. They request AMC for continuingthis type of program on upcoming days.

In poem competition Mr. Bharat Bhusal(Vice President of AMC-Child Club) got firstposition as well as Ms. Rozina Khatri(executive member of AMC-Child Club) gotsecond Position and Ms. Bizaya Gautam(executive member of AMC-Child Club) gotthird position. At the end of the programAMC gave a winning prize by inspiring all of

On the occasion of National Chil-dren Day, 14th September 2014( 29th Bhadra 2071 B.S) AmericanCorner Surkhet Child Club organ-ized a special program 'Poemcompetition & open drawing exhi-bition " sponsor by American Cor-ner Surkhet. In the program teach-ers and students participated fromdifferent school. On the poemcompetition Mr. Tikaram Paudel(Asst. teacher) was as a boystrainer & Ms. Hannaha Marqusee( Peace Corp Volunteer ) was as a

Children makes their own drawingand show in front to their friends

Children Day Celebration

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“The library lets

you borrow the

beauty and keep

the knowledge.”

~Author Unknown

Celebrating 16thEarthquake Safety Dayby public aware .( Out-reach program on Sur-preme Academy,School).

Movie Show Program for Armed Forced Police ( APF )

Book Discussion at AMC-Book ClubOn 13th October 2014 ,American Corner Surkhetorganized “ Book Discussion”Program at American CornerSurkhet. The objective of theprogram is to improve theEnglish reading habits and in-teraction in different subjectmatter . Including AC-Staff, 12students well participated inthe program.

On 15th , October 2014 , Onthe request of Armed PoliceForce (APF) American CornerSurkhet displayed the movie "Special Force" at AC- movieclub. During the program AC-Staff Mr. Hirdesh Kumar K.C.also briefed them the activities,resources, services and pro-gram performed by the AC.

B-boying dance performanceon Surkhet to convey the

message Say no to Drugs &Stop Gender Based Violence


Book Club ; one of the participant share her view aboutthe book to her friends.

Armed Force Police (APF) on the movie Club.

Kids from “Kinder Garden” love to visit American Corner Surkhet with their teachers.

Halloween Day Celebration.P A G E 2 4V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

On 31th October 2014, AmericanCorner Surkhet celebrated ‘ Hal-loween Day’ with American CornerChild Club (AC3) During the cele-bration Ms. Hannaha Marqusee(Peace Corp Volunteer) gave apresentation on Halloween Day,also she descrived how HalloweenDay is celebrated in US. Every Bodyenjoyed the celebration, Studentsmakes horror mask and pant theirfaces. Students danced with PCVolunteers and made a lot of fun.

On 8th November 2014 AmericanCorner Surkhet organized "BookDiscussion" program at AmericanCorner Surkhet for child club. Thetheme of the program was to im-prove the reading habits of chil-dren. Altogether 15 girls took partsin the program. The program wasfacilitated by AC-Staff.

was used different games tomake the participants learn Eng-lish through games and sug-gested the significant websitesas well.


On 4th and 5th November,2014, an "Orientation Programon Webinar and E-TeacherCourse" was held being facili-tated by Ms. Sara Denne-Bolton(RELO) and Mr. Bishwo Gau-tam (US-Embassy, Nepal). Al-together, 58 English Teachersand Students participated at thisprogram which was held atAmerican Corner Surkhet. Ashighlighting on the conductedactivities of the program, there

During Halloween Day celebration at American Corner Surkhet ( 31th October 2014)

An Orientation Program on Webinar and E-Teacher Course

"Book Discussion" on Child Club

During Book Discussion program on Child Club ( 8th November 2014 )

RELO Ms. Sara Denne-Bolton gave a presenta-tion on Webinar & E-Teacher Course.

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“ The best of myeducation has come fromthe public library... mytuition fee is a bus fareand once in a while, fivecents a day for anoverdue book. You don'tneed to know very muchto start with, if you knowthe way to the publiclibrary. ” ~LesleyConger

During Dancing Pro-gram at AC-Surkhet.

Veterans Day Celebration.

Fun with the Students.

Dancing ProgramOn 8th November 2014 Ameri-can Corner Surkhet organized"Dance Program" at AmericanCorner Surkhet, collaborationwith AC3 (American CornerChild Club). The program wasfor entertainment purpose.Altogether 20 club member andlibrary visitors actively partici-pated the program. After theprogram they understood thatAmerican Corner Surkhet isnot only a place for studyingbooks but also for differentkinds of entertainment. —at American Corner Surkhet.

To celebration the weekend, On22th November 2014, AmericanCorner Child Club, Surkhet or-ganized different program at AC-Surkhet. During the programstudents make a fun by dancing,singing and narrate story. Theprogram was facilitated by theAC-Staff.

On the Occasion of Veterans Day,11th November 2014, AmericanCorner Surkhet screened videodocumentary on "World War II"The event and their impact on realpeople. Altogether 25 Armed PoliceForce (APF) member actively par-ticipated in the program.November 11 was set aside as Ar-mistice Day in the United States, toremember the sacrifices that menand women made during the war inorder to ensure a lasting peace. —at American Corner Surkhet.

Slam poetry on AmericanCorner Surkhet


Children makes fun by dancing and singing at American Corner

Screened Video documentary on “ World War II” to APF( Armed Police Force) during Veterans Day celebration.

Club members make fun by dancing in the program.

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“The Library is not

only a fun place to

go, it’s a place to

connect, to share,

to grow & help

other expand their

horizons.”

–Lynee T.

Students are familierwith new technology‘Amazon Kindle’ atAmerican CornerSurkhet

Screen the movie “Dark Girls” (with Nepali subtitles) during the 16 Days

Against Gender Based Violence.

As part of our 16 Days Against Gender-Based Violence pro-gramming, on November 26, 2014 American Corner Surkhet

screened the movie , Dark Girls, whichdiscusses the problem of skin color dis-crimination in the United States andworldwide. The audience then partici-pated in a Google hangout with AmericanEmbassy, American Corners in Dhang-hadi & American Corners in Bhairahawa.

Displaying Voter educationmaterial –2013 to APF in

American Corner Surkhet(August 13, 2013)


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