18 Entries for "Impact Stories"
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READ MOREJan. 6, 2015 | Impact Stories | OLE Nepal
Balancing the act of duty and wanderlust
It was 5 a.m. when the sound of my alarm clock woke me up. I got up, got ready, grabbed my bags, and headed to the OLE Nepal office, where my colleague Deepa was waiting for me. To get a head start, we had packed all the necessary equipment, laptops, stationery, and other documents the day before. I couldn’t help but feel content knowing that everything was going according to plan. Despite the heavy bags we had to carry and load into the taxi, we felt energized and ready for the journey ahead.
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READ MOREFeb. 25, 2014 | Impact Stories | OLE Nepal
The Wise Man in the Training
The narrow training hall in the KP Plaza Hotel, crammed with 24 teachers, one school supervisor and four OLE Nepal staff, resembled the crowded fish market in the heart of Kathmandu. Actually, it was not exactly a hall, but a balcony turned into a hall by hanging curtains along the three open sides. The cold breeze from the Seti river streamed continuously through the gaps between the curtains, but that did not bother the participants gathered there for the seven-day long training on using laptops and digital learning tools in classrooms. Neither did they complain about the foul smell and the continuous noise from the generator. At 10 AM on January 22, 2014 Bajhang district headquarter, Chainpur, was slowly coming to life, and the participants braved the cold and and the inconvenience to get started with enthusiasm.
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READ MOREAug. 3, 2012 | Impact Stories | OLE Nepal
Something out of a science fiction
Imagine. A million bits of information hatching into life, fissioning into a billion more, flying across plains, hills and mountains. On arriving at destinations where sometimes no roads, boats or even aeroplanes can reach, every single one of the million bits manage to fall in just the right places to together make identical copies of the shell from which they initially hatched. This process of fission and subsequent fusion is happening even as we speak. These bits are spreading far and wide, creating shells of information that become knowledge for anyone fortunate enough to open them. An education epidemic growing viral far and wide, like something out of a science fiction.