Education Nepal Project #7797

Literacy and Livelihoods for 445 Women in Nepal

by Language Development Centre - Nepal

Project Report | Nov 19, 2019
Report on Literacy and Livelihood Project, Nov 2019

By Pushker Kadel | Director, Language Development Centre Nepal

Way to village from North [East West Highway]

Language Development Centre Nepal [LDC-Nepal] is an NGO continuing assisting to implement language, education [informal, formal and non-formal] and development activities. LDC-Nepal is working with language speaking communities. Our activities are focused to make quality life of the people through education and minor development activities. Our most of the beneficiaries are women because the male members are migrated to sale their labour in foreign country. We are providing technical and nominal financial support.

LDC-Nepal is started to work in Chitwan. Because it will save travel and other administrative costs and we can support to our beneficiaries as much we can with our limited financial resources.

I am delighted to share the activity progress report for your kind information, it will be helpful to you to understand what’s going on in the project. This report focused on family-based functional income generation activities and participant’s concerns.

Functional Literacy: Person who can engage in all those activities in which literacy is required for effective function of his or her group and community and also for enabling him or her to continue to use reading, writing and calculation for his or her own and the community’s development.

I had one-to-one informal conversation with the people to let them to know about our project and its strategies. The conversation was based on this statement, “Illiteracy impacts families, communities, workforces and the stability of the nations.” - UNESCO 2019 They are convinced and positive to work together. They are committed to contribute their time and resources. And they would like to deal the project informal way.

The following plan is made for first six months.

Community’s responsibilities;

select one volunteer facilitator
prepare list of beneficiaries and their profile
form executive committee [self help group]
meeting with local elected representative
prepare activity plan and its minimum budget including community’s contribution
monitor the activities and prepare informal report

LDC-Nepal’s responsibilities;

provide training to the facilitator
self help group management training
regular coach to the facilitator and guide him/her to implement project
provide literacy materials, stationaries and stipend to facilitator
help the self help group to link them to local government office
collect the important information and inform to the community

“Poverty is not just about money, but also includes issues of access to services such as health care and education, marginalized and exclusion. [World Vision]

One of the female community member, who would not like to use her name, she said, “I would like to welcome this project and those people who are willing to contribute to change our life pattern through functional literacy.”

As per my conversation with local people, they are committed to follow ethic-based planned economic activities or profession. This commitment encouraged me serve this community. I [Pushker Kadel] believe this will give best positive result in future. But it will depends on our input.

I [Pushker Kadel] believe, #Functional_Education will help us to understand value of profession. We have to realize that #Professional_Dignity matters for success in profession, otherwise, that profession make no sense. So, we must have commitment to follow #ethic_based profession and economic activities.

LDC-Nepal is trying to help the community people, follow their commitments and learn in new ideas and skills to make their life better. If we able to do so, we will easily achieve our anticipated result. I am very hopeful, our strategy will work as our plan.

For this, we have to generate internal and external cooperations. And, also demonstrate best module for functional literacy using our capacities. I would like to thank all of you who is encouraging us to continue the project activities in Nepal.

Thank you!

Note: This time local community would like to take their photographs and I did not attached thier photos.

Way to village from South End and its view

East view and farming style in village

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Aug 6, 2019
Reviewing Literacy and Livelihood Project Activities

By Pushker Kadel | Director, Language Development Centre Nepal

Community Group Meeting in Dang

Language Development Centre Nepal [LDC-Nepal] is a small NGO continuing assisting to implement language, education and development activities. LDC-Nepal is working with different language speaking communities to improve their socioeconomic situation through formal and non-formal education and minor development activities. We are providing technical and financial support even we do not have enough financial resources.

I would like to share some of great experiences and finding in last few years, which will help you to understand the progress and challenges of the project. This report also focused on fundamental human right of learners.

Advocating for Quality Education for All

LDC-Nepal is working with National Language Commission as a roster organization to develop national language policy in education. We are advocating to reduce policy hurdles through our best experiences, which is helping to develop new policy, design new curriculum and teacher’s training program. But still our influence and efforts are not enough to play vital role in national level to provide quality education for all. Our motto is very closed to statement of UNESCO “Quality education shouldn’t be limited to a privileged few, but should be accessible to everyone.” Government agencies and political leaders are agree in principle to change in existing policies and practices to provide quality education for all. But which is not happened yet. So, we have to give more focus and work with local government agencies because they can play vital role to change basic education policy in Nepal.

Literacy and Livelihood Activity

LDC-Nepal is implementing literacy project from the beginning and trying to change existing literacy practices through functional, transitional and mobile literacy programs. It is helping to change traditional definition and practice of literacy. We are partly successful because the stakeholders are looking and listening to us. It is encouraging us to continue our activities.

“Education is a fundamental human right and the most powerful tool to transform lives and build the world of tomorrow.” #EducationDay

If children/learners are allowed to use their mother tongue or first language at class/school, they will rejoice with fundamental human right and help them to

- develop solid foundation of education

- understand the value of their language, culture and nation

- preserve & promote linguistic & cultural diversity for peace

- promote indigenous skill, science & knowledge for development

- prepare foundation for sustainable development & prosperity

LDC-Nepal is able to provide support more than 500 families and most of direct beneficiaries are women. They are enlighten through functional literacy programs. Their voices are started to listen and they are able to paly key role in their respective community. It is remarkable change even we did not made any formal evaluation of the project.

The statement from Li Anderson, Minister of Education for Finland is very relevant and worthy to follow in our context. She said, "Investment in education is key to all of the success, 'we have seen in Finnish society, so it is key for social cohesion, it is key for equality, and it is key for building economic progress and for economic growth."

“Education is everyone’s responsibility. We must act urgently together and step up efforts to invest more in quality.” #EducationForAll

I [Pushker Kadel] believe, “Best quality education can only transform the society.” So we have to manage more investment in education, ensure the best quality and all learners will get benefit from it. We are hopeful that education and development programs will help to make the behavioral changes in new generation. It will also help to develop healthy and peaceful world.

How easy or difficult is it to reform the education system as per sociopolitical changes in Nepal? It is still debatable. But we were able to show the best example through our small projects with your support and contribution. Thank you and looking for more cooperation in future.

Tharu women's unity through their work

Pushker Kadel as trainer in teacher's training

Natural Beauty in east Nepal

Limbu classroom in East Nepal

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May 13, 2019
Project Activity Review Workshop Report May 2019

By Pushker Kadel | Project Leader

Participants are in the Workshop

Language Development Centre Nepal [LDC-Nepal] is developing partnership with local language speaking communities to implement language, education and development activities since 2008. We are getting good response from the communities even our financial support is very nominal.

LDC-Nepal is providing technical and small financial support to implement Tharu women Literacy activities in coordination with Help Society Nepal. The project is supporting twenty-three women to make them literate and improve their life style through mobile literacy activities. Facilitator meet them once a week in the weekend. The program is getting popular and effective because participants are using literacy skills in their daily life. We are getting more request from the community to support more women. The literacy program is literate women in their own language, aware and prepared them to promote their own language and culture.

Last week, I had visited the project area and facilitate the project activity review workshop in Dang which was organized by partner NGO Help Society Nepal. It was a great opportunity for me to have a conversation with community leaders, NGO members, literacy facilitators and participants to know the progress and their concerns about the project. I am delighted to share the report on project review worksop.

I had facilitated the two days workshop for 15 participants [Male: 9 & Female: 6] among them two literacy participant, one literacy facilitators, one supervisor, three Tharu indigenous Knowledge holders, one advocate and seven NGO members.

The workshop was fruitful for us to know the progress, local stakeholder’s concerns and ideas about the project and ongoing progress and redefine the literacy program. Supervisor, Bhauna Ram Chaudhary said, “We are getting positive response from the community and need to use their positive thoughts to ensure effective implementation of the project activities.”

The project is able to develop positive vibes in the community. Literacy participant Sabita Chaudhary said, “I realized that once we replace negative thoughts with positive ones, we will start having positive results.”

IK holder, Shreeram Chaudahry said, “We are shaped by our thoughts. Education [informal, formal and non formal] is shaping our thoughts. It is critical and crucial to understand this reality.”

“Quality education should’t be limited to a privileged few, but should be accessible to everyone.” [UNESCO]

The project activity is helping to create an environment that can reduce illiteracy in the community, drop out from the school and ensure to provide quality education for all using their language, culture and capacities.

“The development of self reading and writing habits increases the ability to analyze the situation correctly. Being educated or literate means not only to get a degree and recognize the letters. The knowledge and skills derived from study have to encourage the people positively active to have a standard living and develop a peaceful society.” [P. Kadel, Apr 2019]

We are grateful for your support. Thank you and looking for more cooperation.

Group photo after the Workshop

Group work about importance of women literacy

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