Rural Assistance Nepal |
RAN was set up as a charity in June 2008 to help advance education and to assist in the provision of healthcare in the rural areas of Nepal. It is registered with the UK Charity Commission (Reg No 1124311) to make this work sustainable, extend what is being done and to make it easier for friends to give their support.

In 2006, while visiting the village school at Garimudi, in Dolakha, Marianne was sad to see the poor state of the school and large classes, and told her friends in the UK about what she had seen. Immediately, one friend offered to pay for a teacher for a year; the 10 year old daughter of another friend sold painted Easter eggs to raise money to help the school; other friends offered donations for teachers' salaries and school materials. With £100100, 40 of the poorest children were helped to buy school books.

At the same time, Rai friends from Deusa in Solukhumbu highlighted the poor state of education at the school there. Trekking with a farmer from Deusa who was working as a porter to earn some extra cash, Dev Chandra Rai told of his concern for his own daughters' education at the school. Dev's English is very good as he went to school in India, so he was asked: why not teach English at the school. His response was that he didn't know how to teach. But do the other teachers know how to teach? Good point - no, maybe not.
Teacher training in Nepal is basic if it exists at all. Reading material sent from the British Council's website and books on how to teach English, Dev has surprised his students by teaching them in a way that is different to the style they are used to - where English is spoken in his English lessons and with a teacher who tries to make his lessons interactive and stimulating.
Soon after, seeing that the sub-healthpost was always closed, the question was asked: why? No one wants to work in the village. Nurses don't want to run healthposts in the middle of nowhere.
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