Impact & media
500+ children, two very different kinds of community.
We measure our work in children who keep turning up, and in families who ask us to come back. Here is where the programme stands today, and what others have written about it.
500+
Children supported
Across slum settlements and Chepang communities since we began.
40
Children in daily classes
Non-formal education and life-skills sessions, every day, in one settlement.
2
Communities served
Urban informal settlements and remote Chepang hillside villages.
100%
Volunteer-taught
Young Nepali volunteers who live in or near the communities they teach.
Media coverage
What the press has said
Coverage helps in a practical way: it brings volunteers to the door and reassures families that the programme is real.
Featured for providing daily non-formal education and life-skills training to 40 children in a slum community
Nepal Press covered the initiative’s daily classes in an urban informal settlement, where 40 children receive non-formal education and life-skills training from young volunteers.
See the coverage
What changes
The outcomes we hold ourselves to
Children reading who could not before
Most children arrive unable to read a full sentence in Nepali. Progress is tracked child by child, at their own level, rather than by class average.
A path back into government school
Non-formal classes are a bridge, not a destination. When a child is ready and the paperwork is possible, we help families enrol them.
Fewer children dropping out again
Volunteers follow up at home when a child stops attending. Usually the reason is practical, and usually it can be solved.
Healthier daily habits
Hygiene and health sessions are repeated, not one-off — hand-washing, clean water, and knowing what to do when someone is unwell.
Where we work
Two communities, two different barriers
Urban informal settlements. Here the school may be close, but fees, documents and the need for children to earn keep them out. Our answer is daily classes held on-site, free, with materials supplied.
Chepang hillside villages. For one of Nepal’s most marginalised indigenous communities, the barrier is distance and cost. We bring learning sessions into the villages and help families through enrolment when a school place is within reach.