Our most Disadvantaged Children Arya needs your help to walk. Please donate to cover her non-medical costs while in Kathmandu, 600kms across the Himalayas. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for her. Arya, who has never walked and has little use in her right hand, is being given free treatment – but not expenses - at [...]
Students will leave after SEE exams at the end of High School at about age 16. As the end of the Nepali year 2081 approaches (mid-April) and the school year has just a few more weeks, there are a lot of exams as all students from Nursery up sit down and show what they can [...]
We build upon what we have done in previous years, without letting go of previous achievements. In past years, we have spent money on creating an environment to learn in and the teachers who have the skills and resources to teach and inspire, to help students to excel in exam results. As jobs are scarce, [...]
There is a huge technology deficit in Nepal; this is how we are giving our children in Hangdewa better life-chances for the 21st Century. Nepal has just made it compulsory for students in computers at the equivalent of A-level to have access to a computer. Most schools do not have enough for students to use [...]
’Here we are in Nepal in the remote Himalayas and most of us have not been to any other countries or perhaps just one other, like India next door. But we know that our children want to have good jobs and opportunities like children anywhere in the world, not just farmers - or labourers in [...]
Nepal is one of the poorest 20 countries in the world. Nevertheless, it has made great strides with developing education, and, in the last 10 years, most children enrol in school and learn to read. But only about half go on to secondary school and achieve good results, and most of those are in the [...]
Several years ago, the children were being asked what they wanted to be when they grew up: ‘doctor, teacher, engineer, pilot…’ but Bibash was unique: ‘I want to be a footballer’ – no matter that he played in flipflops or that there was no proper field. When we started to match Mentors and Ambassadors, we [...]
By Karen Cove Where do you take two teenage boys on holiday? That was our dilemma. We know there won’t be many opportunities for family holidays as the boys get older, so we make the most of each year we have together and want to make sure our plans are greeted with enthusiasm, and not [...]
We are a school to be proud of and our children are overjoyed with their new syllabus. In every letter or email to their Mentors, the children excitedly say how they love the sport and creative lessons now in their daily timetable. At last, we have the space and resources to add in music and art. [...]
We were at last able to visit the schools in Hangdewa and this is what we saw and heard... Wherever you look in the schools, you will see children smiling, and wherever you walk in the hills of Hangdewa, you will hear the sounds of children laughing, singing, dancing, talking, and playing. This must be [...]
