Education is the prime sector
that directly affects our lives and mine is also not far from it. Being the
daughter of a middle class family of a Nepalese society, I have faced many
troubles only to get the quality education which my other family members longed
for. That's why as soon as I was enrolled in the high school level, I thought
of helping the needy children, especially the girl children, so I started
taking part in different volunteering
programs which gave me an immense pleasure inside my heart and made me
more passionate about it.
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| hosting my television advocacy program Pariwesh (Society) |
Thus, I chose my career as a
journalist and started producing an advocacy television program which used to
research on the deep level about the condition of women and children residing
in the remote areas of Nepal. I used to go different places and talk with the
children and women around there. Most of them were leading a very tragic life
mostly due to the lack of education. Though our government has made primary
level education free, most of the people are unaware about it also and don't go
to school. For three years I did my job and was able to influence the lives of
more than hundreds of people and being able to make enroll some of the needy
children to school through the help of some Non-governmental organizations. I
was feeling happy in my success till the date when I went to one of the remote
village of Morang district of Nepal where a 14 year old girl was gang raped by
her classmates. And whole village thought that it was the fault of the girl and
her family for giving her the freedom to go to school. Then I realized only
advocating does not change the lives but working with them and changing the
concept is the main thing. So I thought that I must change the thinking pattern
from the bottom level and it would be possible only if I worked as a teacher as
I could teach them not only the curriculum but these kinds of morals which would
affect even their family members and their future generations also. So I came
to be the fellow of Teach for Nepal, an organization working to end educational inequity
and chose to be the volunteer teacher of Jyotidaya Co-operative Secondary School and have been teaching for one year and
have been contracted to teach further for one more year.
And I am noticing the
change I am bringing not only in the children but also in the community through
education.My job as a teacher has made me
more passionate about Education. I not only teach them the curriculum but other life skills that they should have in their lives. I also aware them about female rights, protection of environment and so through different projects. One of the social project that I did with my students.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnDCyCvbjso ). The dreams of my students, their small
achievements but by now I have also realized that if I have to make a more remarkable
impact, I would have to take support of more people in my passion. More people
should be passionate about it, then only education system of Nepal would change
in a proper way. And here, I am proud that I have been selected as a Global Youth Ambassador of A World at School and now will be helping to reduce the number of children who are not being able to go to school in my country through my effort as well as the effort of other five hundred ambassadors of eighty different countries. ( http://www.aworldatschool.org/news/entry/500-young-leaders-become-a-world-at-school-youth-ambassadors )
I hope to gain different tools and techniques that
would be beneficial for the education sector in the context of my country, for
the support that we can get from each other as I think I can also contribute to
some extent in the educational field in the international level and most of all
I hope to get the inspiration to continue my journey in this field because by now what I have realized is that motivation is the only tool that can make the people stand
still in this field as there are so many pit holes where we can fall and so many
hazards in the society who don't let us move to fulfill our dream of an educated
society.
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