Children of the Mountain

Children of the Mountain is a non-profit organization responding to the needs of the poorest children in rural Nepal, addressing discrimination and inequality through the provision of unique ' Equal Education ' programs. Our aim is to support the poorest children in rural and urban Nepal, providing them with opportunity through access to education and personal development. We actively campaign aga

inst gender and caste bias and promote education as a practical alternative to rampant child labour. We advocate for investment and directly invest in child centred education as a critical and effective tool in the fight against extreme poverty in rural hill communities. Our programs now include Primary Schools, Kindergartens, Libraries, Computer labs and Dual language literacy. Our unique infrastructure projects are currently impacting on 5,000 children benefiting from our schools, preschools and creative classrooms on a daily basis. We currently support over 30 schools as illustrated by http://childrenofthemountain.org/places-weve-helped/ During the past 11 years we have provided funding to build over 50 primary school classrooms as well as: a) Developing the KK concept for Grade 1 children providing a template for over 30 schools to include room furnishings, educational decoration, appropriate child friendly furniture, a selection of learning activities, toys and games manufactured by local industry b) Developing the Creative classroom concept for Grade 2 children providing a template for over 30 schools as above. c) Developed training programmes in partnership with ECEC for teachers for early years training for the teaching of Nepali, English and Math across the four key regions we support. d) Recruited and trained a local team of motivators and monitors from the regions we support to work with the schools in each region. e) Developed relationships with the Local Education Authorities and communities f) Developed resilient continuation strategies for enabling the reset of aims and objectives following national crisis in the aftermath of the earthquakes in 2015.