About LEARN & QEN
QEN-At first, it began with the name “Nepali Village Initiatives Association-NVIA” initiated by Peter Hall and Ronda Hall, who are emotionally attached by looking at the situation of Nepali life in the mountain villages while trekking in the Annapurna Region. In 2011, NVIA engaged the services of REED to deliver training to forty-two teachers of Shikha VDC, Myagdi District in Western Nepal. The program was quite successful and effective, so the teachers requested for extension of the programme. NVIA then again continued funding the programme for the years 2012 and 2013. The programme was not only teacher training but with a full year package including teaching-learning materials support, school visits and monitoring, refresher training, leadership training for lead teachers and head teachers and a community awareness programme.
Realizing that education is the key to uplifting life, LEARN was formed with the slogan “Lifting Education, Advancing Rural Nepal” and started its journey focusing on the education of Myagdi district in April 2014. NIVA is now named Quality Education Nepal, Australia (QEN).
LEARN, a non-governmental organization established in 2014 AD with the vision of “Each child should have access to quality education to uplift the rural life of Nepali people”, has been working for the improvement of school education in the remote areas of Nepal since its establishment focusing on a remote district, Myagdi. Its activities focus on transforming education through teachers’ training, in-school support, child club mobilization and school-community relationship. In particular, the major interventions include improved classroom management, teaching material development, and classroom delivery methodologies. In addition to that, it aims to support Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) materials. Its objectives are; -
- To develop a child-friendly teaching-learning environment through innovative teaching skills and strategies
- To increase the involvement of parents and communities in school activities
- To increase active participation of child clubs in school and community activities
- To provide need-based support to schools, such as instructional, IT and library resources
- To ensure equitable access to appropriate teaching and learning resources
- To develop a dynamic Lead Teachers’ Network for assisting in training and monitoring activities and sustainable in-school support activities
LEARN has been contributing towards goal no. 4 of UN Sustainable Development Goals, i.e. ‘Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all’. These projects have been carried out in coordination with the Center for Education and Human Resources Development, Education Development and Coordination Unit, Rural Municipalities, SMCs, PTAs, Child Clubs and other like-minded agencies.
Work Area
LEARN started its core activities in six community schools of Shikha VDC of Myagdi District.
At present, it has been working in two rural municipalities, Annapurna and Raghuganga, covering seventy community-based schools and very recently it has extended the similar projects in a new rural municipality, Dhawalagiri RM of Myagdi covering twenty-eight more schools.
Why Computer Labs
EduTech Nepal, LEARN and QEN signed an MOU in April 2023 to build three computer labs a year in partnership together. This pic is Ashok (CEO of EduTech Nepal), Krishna Pun (CEO LEARN Nepal) and me (Mike) as I was in Nepal at the time.
With LEARN's focus on Teacher Education I'm sure this partnership will work well for all parties, but especially for the students, families, and communities in Myagdi.
Contact LEARN
If you would like more information and/or to donate to support new computer labs, then please contact LEARN via the options below.
Address : Tokha Municipality-3, Tokha, Kathmandu
Phone : +977 9849289685
Email : info@nepalaid.org.au
Web : www.nepalaid.org.au