Disaster Impacted in Education Accessibility, Affordability and Continuity

Abstract

The learning activities have been affected due to disasters. Due to low or no access to the natural resource has impacted multiplier impact on the lives and livelihood of landless communities. The study has explored how the resourceless communities have been struggling with their daily life, socioeconomic, and education accessibility of their kids, especially during the disaster.  The research paper has explored the existing education accessibility situation of children of landless communities in a different part of Gorkha, Nepal. It has explained the major disturbing factor and supporting factors to reach education in the study area.  Descriptive and explanatory research methodology has practiced. Primary information has collected from a close-ended questionnaire, open-ended questionnaire, phone interview, and support of local information collector through the google form. Existing data related to landless, education information and community-based published information has been considered a secondary source of study. Quantitative data analysis has used while close-ended question base information interpretation, and qualitative data analysis has used while interpreting open-ended. Descriptive analysis is used for qualitative, and inferential data analysis is for quantitative. Lack of enough natural resources, additional earnings, not having enough savings, remoteness, weak physical structures, and lower social protection mechanisms in local governance are major hindering factors on education inaccessibility in the study area. Enabling community-based socioeconomic empowerment, collective engagement, and social protection provision in education to landless household pupils has can strengthen education accessibility ahead.