News & Views From Nepal
Children of the Mountain is a UK registered charity (registered number: 1142469), regulated by the UK’s charity commission. Our aim is to support the poorest children in rural Nepal, providing them with opportunity through education and personal development. We actively …
childrenofthemountain.org Read...DUBAI // A charity gala has raised Dh95,000 to help build a new school in a deprived area of Nepal. Related Guests paid Dh350 each to attend the event, which was organised by Children of the Mountain and featured a …
Charity gala raises Dh95,000 for school in Nepal Read...Deafness may be congenital or a result of a childhood illness like Measles, meningitis, high fever or any infection that goes untreated. In Nepal, there are families with multiple children with deafness and more often than not they are diagnosed …
Pruwanchal Deaf School- Hope in the Sea of Silence Read...PHASE raises levels of literacy and numeracy giving children and adults more opportunities and choices. We support governmental schools with teaching materials, buildings, water supplies and toilets, salaries for extra teachers and early childhood development. Adult literacy rates are very …
Education Read...By Abhaya Raj Joshi Come April 14 next year, 30 men and women from across Nepal will embark on a mission — to kick start a process to transform themselves and the country. The fresh university graduates, chosen …
Teaching for Nepal: Transforming the country one classroom at a time Read...Xpress Money, the world’s most dependable money transfer brand, recently donated text books to close to 100 underprivileged students between grades VI to X. This donation drive was undertaken by the brand as part of H.O.P.E, their consolidated sustainable corporate …
Xpress Money brings H.O.P.E to school children in Nepal Read...CNN Films’ “Girl Rising” documents extraordinary girls and the power of education to change the world. Watch June 16 on CNN (CNN) — Purnima lives in Nepal. She wants to be a nurse. But because she is a girl instead …
Going to school, instead of work Read...Agence France-Presse Posted at 05/14/2013 4:28 PM | Updated as of 05/14/2013 4:28 PM KATHMANDU, Nepal – The annual rush to the hills by villagers keen to harvest a rare aphrodisiac fungus dubbed “Himalayan Viagra” has emptied rural schools in …
‘Himalayan Viagra’ harvest rush shuts Nepal schools Read...The whole purpose of SLC still seems to be rote learning, mugging, and writing down repetitive paragraphs to fill up exam papers. -SHRIJANA SINGH YONJAN My eldest daughter is giving her SLC (School Leaving Certificate) examination this year along with …
Comedy of errors -SLC’s worth and standard Read...Jerry Mintz Many parents don’t realize that the education world has changed drastically since they were in school. Schools and class sizes used to be smaller, dropout rates lower, in-school violence almost unheard of, and teachers weren’t terrified of showing …
Ten signs you need a different kind of education for your child Read...MADAN THAKUR Despite the government’s decision to make education accessible to every child, there are 42,240 children in Rautahat who are still not within the reach of a school. Rautahat has the least literacy rate amongst all 75 districts in …
Rautahat: The most child-illiterate district in Nepal Read...By Rachael Fulton Team 2012: Student Volunteer Abroad team in NepalChloe Pratt    <a href=”http://oas.stv.tv/RealMedia/ads/click_nx.ads/local.stv.tv/glasgow/magazine/221225-glasgow-university-students-build-schools-in-nepal-with-sva/11368247860@Frame1″ target=”_blank”> <img src=”http://oas.stv.tv/RealMedia/ads/adstream_nx.ads/local.stv.tv/glasgow/magazine/221225-glasgow-university-students-build-schools-in-nepal-with-sva/11368247860@Frame1″ alt=”” /> </a> “Snakes come out of the grass in monsoon season. I couldn’t believe we were working around poisonous …
Students get rowing to raise £10k for Nepalese challenge Read...Nepalese children study at Everest International School Japan in Tokyo’s Suginami Ward. (Atsushi Takahashi) By ATSUSHI TAKAHASHI/ Staff Writer The beginning of the school year always finds classrooms full of the happy laughter and smiling faces of eager schoolchildren anxious …
Everest International 1st school in Japan for Nepalese kids Read...Prof Dr Mana Prasad Wagley REPUBLICA There is a lot of debate surrounding school education in developing countries like Nepal. The argument centers on whether the state is best suited to educate all its young, or if the private sector …
PABSON stronger than any government body Read...Dailekh: A lower secondary school at Sigaudi VDC in the district is finding it hard to provide education to children for want of physical infrastructure. Though the roof of a four-room building of the Nepal Rastriya Lower Secondary School was …
Dailekh school wants budget to repair roof Read...