Dhanusha, Nepal:, “When I saw the smoke, I didn’t stop to think. I alerted other people from the neighbourhood. Me and my friends, we got everyone to stand in a line and we started passing down buckets of water from the river, dumping them on the fire. A while after we did this, the flames went out.” Pooja Rimal is describing her experience of a fire she and other…

Ramechhap, Nepal:, In 1993, Dor Dev Ghimire had been walking home to his village in his native Ramechhap District in north-eastern Nepal when someone called out to him. This someone was from the Majhi or fishermen community that lived nearby, and she handed him a letter and asked if he could read it to her. Dor was aware of the general poverty that existed in the…

Ramechhap, Nepal:, Most people would struggle to tell Ram and Laxman apart. The twins are frequently told that they look like exact copies of one another, a resemblance amplified by the matching outfits they often wear. Besides their physical likeness, Ram and Laxman also share an enthusiasm for going to school. They are among the most regular students in the second…

Kavre, Nepal –, Badri Parajuli knows this place inside out. Badri had started teaching at Bachhaladevi Basic School in his home district of Kavrepalachowk in central Nepal 25 years ago. In that time, he’s become the head teacher here and one of the indispensable pillars of this institution. Every item and all facilities within the premises have been carefully…

Jul 9, 2017: , The partnership project constructed 650 Transitional Learning Centers — safe learning environment for children — as permanent rebuilding catches on in the years to come. Along with this, it has provided for learning materials and teacher training in the nine most affected districts as an overall strategy to recover the educational infrastructure.…

Okhaldhunga, Nepal –, Not too long ago, Saraswati Tamang had taken her husband, who was ill, to the hospital in Okhaldhunga bazaar in Okhaldhunga District in eastern Nepal. The couple had travelled by jeep for four hours on a trail-road to get to the bazaar from her village. After writing out a prescription, the doctor instructed the couple to visit “room number 4” of…

Sindhupalchowk, Nepal –, Kristina B.K. has long dreamed of a career in agriculture. To get there, the thirteen-year-old, sixth-grader from Kubhinde Village in Sindhupalchowk District plans to pursue a diploma in agriculture at Setidevi Panchakanya Secondary School.   This school is one of the few in the district offering a diploma degree, which is equivalent to a high-…

Sindhupalchowk, Nepal –, On a rainy August morning in Sindhupalchowk District, Hotrika Joshi rushes towards the Setidevi Basic School in Sunkoshi Rural Municipality. Joshi was born and raised in Kailali District in the Far Western region of Nepal. She travelled the nearly 500 kilometers from home to Sindhupalchowk to oversee the construction of a Transitional Learning…

Kathmandu, Nepal –, It is 6 a.m. in Kavresthali, a small village nearly 10 kilometres north from the city centre and 16-year-old Ranjita Bhandari has been up for over an hour. She is dressed in her school uniform, –, neat blue shirt with a navy blue pullover, a striped tie, a pleated navy blue skirt, black leggings and polished black shoes. She has tied her long thick hair away form her face. She is standing nervously outside her house, a small hut made of tin and tarpaulin. SLC under TLC Ranjita Bhandari (right), 16, is seen with her mother and sister outside…

Sindhupalchowk, Nepal –, The 2015 Gorkha earthquake destroyed the BP Adarsha Primary School located in Sunkoshi of Sindhupalchowk District. For five months thereafter, students were forced to study under the shade of a tree. The school accommodates 20 students studying in grades 1-4. With support from local organizations, the school built a temporary bamboo structure to…