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Education is the foundation upon which people come to understand the world around them. Developing individuals’ aspirations for the future whilst equipping them with the necessary tools to succeed, education endows life with meaning, motivation and a sense of purpose, nurturing both the personal growth of individuals and the collective socioeconomic flourishing of the wider community. Although Nepal has made significant progress in education, large numbers of children still remain out of school or drop out early, particularly among last-mile communities in the remote districts. Poverty and discrimination based on social class and gender lead to high inequity in access to education, while the quality of education delivered in most rural schools leads to low learning levels. With education largely failing to reach the most isolated and impoverished communities, there is little improvement from one generation to the next, leaving the youth as impoverished as the generations before them. Pragya is committed to extending education to the most remote and... Read More

Education is the foundation upon which people come to understand the world around them. Developing individuals’ aspirations for the future whilst equipping them with the necessary tools to succeed, education endows life with meaning, motivation and a sense of purpose, nurturing both the personal growth of individuals and the collective socioeconomic flourishing of the wider community. Although Nepal has made significant progress in education, large numbers of children still remain out of school or drop out early, particularly among last-mile communities in the remote districts. Poverty and discrimination based on social class and gender lead to high inequity in access to education, while the quality of education delivered in most rural schools leads to low learning levels. With education largely failing to reach the most isolated and impoverished communities, there is little improvement from one generation to the next, leaving the youth as impoverished as the generations before them. Pragya is committed to extending education to the most remote and underserved. communities, no matter what the geographic and social challenges. Operating in remote regions with few educational facilities, Pragya’s educational work focuses on providing access to educational resources, and ensuring content that is relevant to local circumstances.

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EDUCATION

ACCESS TO EDUCATION RESOURCES

In the remote high mountain districts of western Nepal, children and young people of agro-pastoral communities face multiple layers of disadvantage. Where educational facilities are available, they typically have poor learning environments, with a lack of capable teachers, inadequate teaching and learning materials, and classroom overcrowding. Additionally, teaching methods have failed to adopt new ways of engaging the young, and where children have been absent from school, enrolment or re-enrolment can be problematic. Girls in particular face discrimination in access to education, with literacy rates among girls especially low as a result of entrenched gender bias.

EDUCATION

ACCESS TO EDUCATION RESOURCES

Pragya works to extend quality educational facilities to the most remote and disadvantaged communities. We establish Education Resource Centres in selected schools or community centres that serve remote settlements. Each Education Resource Centre serves multiple rural schools in an area. Pragya equips the centres with a variety of age-specific teaching and learning materials (TLM), as well as IT and audio-visual equipment to provide a basic digital literacy (helping bridge the divide with more advantaged children in urban settings). Quality educational content is also provided, which typically contains books on geography, the sciences, as well as educational DVDs addressing big themes such as the human body, planet earth, wildlife and nature and so on. The TLMs include instruments for geometry and measurement, and supporting science and math equipment, as well as atlases and globes. Keeping in mind the live situation of the children of the agro-pastoral households, educational material on agriculture, animal husbandry and rural technologies, is also provided. Pragya includes in its Education Kit a set of dedicated gender-sensitivity material as well, addressing subjects including gender equality, human rights, healthcare for adolescent girls. 

These centres provide a vital supplement to state educational infrastructure, improving access to and quality of education for remote rural populations, boosting enrolment and retention rates amongst marginalised populations. These centres also reach out to the youth in the areas served by them to impart basic education to them, to help them transition to a more informed state and often to better livelihoods and incomes, and thereby to a better quality of life. We train the local school teachers for improving their pedagogy to make education more interesting, and their teaching more participative and activity-based. They are also trained for the proper use of the teaching equipment and the teaching and learning aids and quality educational content provided by Pragya to the Education Resource Centres. Pragya has facilitated the local teachers to design supplementary education courses in arithmetic, environmental sciences and language, particularly to aid slow-learners and bring drop-outs back to school.

EDUCATION

ACCESS TO EDUCATION RESOURCES

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Pragya’s work to reach Access to Education for the Last Mile has been implemented in Humla, Dolpa and Mustang districts in Nepal.

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