Shree Rastriya Primary School located in Dhanusha District, Nepal has 406 students. It is running up to grade 7. The school has mud house, which consists of only 2 classrooms. The students are taking class on open air. If it rains, the school is closed. There is no toilet and drinking water. The children bring sack or plastic bags from house to sit on during study.

There are many such schools. Even so, these schools are gift for those students; at least they have an opportunity to study.

Though teachers are motivated and sincere, how they can give quality education to students in such an environment? Because of lack of toilets and drinking water or unhealthy environment, students, especially girls, bunk the classes and slowly dropout of the school. As can be seen from the census data, the school enrollment need to be improved - and that also especially for the girl child. How could such dropouts be stopped? How could the overall school enrollment be increased?

Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness (ECCA) has been working towards improving the school environment through the participation of local youths, leaders and teachers.

In the areas where this programme has been already implemented, school students are doing good job like monitoring school compound, toilets, fast food shops, managing open spaces and preserving plants. All the children are considering nature club as a recreational and self-development centre where they can develop different skills.

When the school is clean, green and has usable toilets and drinking water facilities, the students also "enjoy" coming to school and the attendance is quite satisfying. This type of programme can develop the positive attitude and vision on the children and community to improve the environment of the village as a whole.