Q. Learning Ltd is proud to announce that the Charity Commission has approved our application for charitable status for the work we have funded in NE Nepal in the Eastern Himalayas for the past 13 years. www.qlearningnepal.com Q. Learning Nepal Trust CIO is a team of Western social entrepreneurs. By providing grants and funds to Nepalese schools, we make it [...]

I returned to Hangdewa in November 2019, 11 years since my very first visit. And, in some ways, little has changed…and in others, so much. Women with huge golden nose-rings and turban-like head-covers still labour in subsistence farms, tending the walls of paddy fields, planting, weeding, cutting, and threshing crops by hand. Buffalos still plough fields. Bees buzz in and [...]

I have been avoiding visiting the classrooms with the littlest children. They have had teachers and assistants and paper to write on. A rug to sit on. Songs to sing. But I want the children to have that focus I see with my granddaughter when she is trying to zip up her coat – and finally says ‘I did it!’ [...]

We welcome volunteers to work in our school. Everyone brings their skills and knowledge to this remote location in very different ways. We have welcomed university and school-leavers from around the world, a business entrepreneur in fashion, a nurse to test children’s eyes, and software engineers from Aptitude Software, the sponsor of our computers and intranet. This year we are [...]

How to build a school in Nepal Be enchanted by the idea, imagine what it will do for the community, and be very sure this is your life's good work. It is a privilege few will have as your new community will become good friends - and who will call on you for more than you bargained for (such as [...]