by Priti Bhattarai | Aug 9, 2016 | News, Awareness, Program, Blog
State of Confusion: Education Reform in Nepal The month of June brought about what could be great changes to the educational system in Nepal, as the country ended the 10 year schooling system that had been in practice for the last 80 years. The government had hoped to...
by Priti Bhattarai | Jun 25, 2016 | Success Stories, Blog, News
Every year 10th grade students and their families wait nervously as the results of the national examinations, known as the School Leaving Certificate (SLC) are published. It was that time of the year again earlier in June. With no specific date given for when the...
by Prakriti Nepal | Jun 21, 2016 | Program, News, Collaboration, GLOW Club
LitClub Nepal with the support of Rukmini Foundation has been creating a platform to not only bring girls together in LitClubs, but also to improve the LitClub sessions by working closely with partnership schools. For these LitClub sessions to run smoothly each...
by Priti Bhattarai | Apr 29, 2016 | Blog, News
April 25th 2016 marked the one-year anniversary of the disaster that devastated our tiny Himalayan nation. On that day, a violent 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal—followed weeks later by a 7.3-magnitude aftershock—and we lost almost countless lives, thousands of...
by Harinee Suthakar | Apr 26, 2016 | Organization, News, Success Stories, Blog
Connecting the Local & Global: Thank you, Rukmini Foundation In August 2014, I entered my third year at the University of Pittsburgh when I found out about Rukmini Foundation through the Global Switchboard. Rukmini Foundation took an integrative approach that...
by Laxmi Aryal | Mar 27, 2016 | Event, News, Collaboration, Success Stories, Blog
Village girls of Nepal shine at New York Summit A few months ago, we heard some fantastic news from our partner organization and friends at LitWorld about our Rukmini scholars. Smriti Shrestha, Krisha Shrestha and Reekita Basnet from our village Pharping, Jasmine...
