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March 11, 2026 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Sourcing Community Stories: Workshop Reflections from Tangal, Lalitpur
On February 18, 19, and 21, 2026, local community members gathered for a three-day story-building workshop at Minnath Sikshya Sadan Basic School in Tangal, Lalitpur. The workshop was part of O.L.E. Nepal’s ongoing effort under the LLEST Project to collect community stories for the Hamro Ramailo Kathaharu (HRK) collection, stories that are grounded in the real lives of local people, capturing their everyday experiences, and offering an authentic view of their communities. Through this process, we believe that the voices of the community are placed at the heart of stories that will later be developed into animated stories for children. The workshop brought together sixteen participants, including homemakers, retired teachers and government staff, a music teacher, and the school principal, ranging in age from their forties to over seventy. The entire workshop was conducted in Nepalbhasa, allowing everyone to fully understand the activities and feel comfortable sharing their ideas, and perspectives.
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READ MOREFeb. 6, 2026 | Team Reflections | OLE Nepal
Collaboratively Developing a Scalable Model for STEM Education
What does it take to turn a successful pilot program into a national standard? Between September and December 2025, WPI students Jonah Bonner, Pan Rasking, Jacob Trotta, and Adam Buier worked alongside OLE Nepal to bridge the gap between effective STEM instruction and financial scalability. This guest post outlines their data-driven approach to redesigning robotics modules, proving that with local innovation and creative engineering, world-class STEM education can be both affordable and impactful.
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READ MOREJan. 23, 2026 | Impact Stories | Deepa Thapa
Haunting Slippers
An eight-year-old hearing-impaired girl walks up to me, smiling, her hands gently speaking a language of silence. In the middle of our silent conversation, my eyes fall to her slippers and suddenly freeze.. The embossed smiley face on her left slipper is torn away, impossible to miss. That missing smile has been haunting me ever since.
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READ MOREDec. 28, 2025 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
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READ MORENov. 13, 2025 | Program Updates | OLE Nepal
Sourcing Community Stories: Workshop reflections from Ghami, Mustang and Tinje, Dolpo
During September and October 2025, our team visited Ghami Basic School in Ghami, Mustang, and Siddhartha Kula Basic School in Tinje, Dolpo, for the second round of field activities under the LLEST project. This visit was designed to build upon the foundational work carried out during our initial visit last year in September 2024, when we had conducted orientation and training sessions, carried out teacher and student surveys, and deployed tablets and offline servers equipped with digital learning resources. While the first visit focused on assessing the local learning contexts and laying the foundation for the collaboration, the primary objective of this year’s engagement was to facilitate community participation through story-building workshops. These workshops sought to source authentic narratives and stories from community members to expand the Hamro Ramailo Kathaharu (HRK) collection. Beyond sourcing the local stories, this visit also provided an opportunity to share updated learning materials, introduce newly developed courses under the LLEST project, and gather feedback to improve the ongoing content development.