WISHES FOR NEPAL
Your school can transform lives…
one classroom at a time.
It’s fun, educational, and easy to use!
♢ Raise your children’s awareness about the lives of other less fortunate children
♢ Help transform classrooms for rural Nepali children
Help us make a real difference now!
Before →
Hundreds of thousands of children across Nepal spend their days in dark, dirty classrooms, taught by poorly-trained and demotivated teachers.
← After
With help from people like you, First Steps Himalaya trains teachers to provide developmentally and culturally appropriate early years education and creates happy, nurturing learning environments for young children and their teachers.
How can your school help?
We’ve created fun, easy-to-follow educational resources about Nepal for your classroom so you can hold your own fundraising event in your school or centre. It can be as little or as big as you like, and held at any time of year.
Help your pre-schoolers and primary-aged students learn about the lives and culture of children in Nepal with our fantastic downloadable educational resources.
The fundraising part is easy. Simply send home a donation envelope, personalised by each child.
Children love learning about Nepal. On fundraising day, they often enjoy dressing up in prayer flag colours.
Our FREE downloadable resources have been created by teachers, for teachers.
Resources include:
♢ Arts and craft projects with instructional videos and templates
♢ ‘Wishes for Nepal’ song and video
♢ Printable story book about the daily life of a Nepali girl named Sita
♢ Printable Donation Envelope to send home with each child
How your fundraising can help:
NZ$ 200
Could supply quality learning materials for a whole class
NZ$ 1,200
Could pay an early childhood teacher in Nepal for a year
NZ$ 5,000
Could pay for safe fencing and creation of an outdoor play area
What does First Steps Himalaya Do?
For over ten years, First Steps Himalaya has been working on the ground in Nepal changing the lives of children by transforming their classrooms and training and empowering their teachers.
Empowering Teachers
First Steps Himalaya trains local teachers throughout Nepal in modern professional teaching methods, appropriate to the children and their culture. Quality, nuturing teachers are the key to improved learning and life skills for children.
Our effective, hands-on teacher training courses empower our rural Nepali teachers to create simple, engaging lessons. They learn how to make their own classroom resources from things they can find in their village
Transforming Classrooms
First Steps Himalaya refurbish classrooms and provide resources to create a safe and stimulating learning environment, one that is suited to the local culture and that will support high-quality teaching.
Classrooms are developed from dirt floors to carpet, from wooden pallets for seats to having desks, from a single chalk board to access to crayons, paper and books.
With help from generous people like you, we:
♢ paint and refurbish classrooms
♢ provide classroom furniture and quality learning resources
♢ work tightly with the local community while improving the school ensuring they feel part of the improvement project
“We strongly believe that the key to bringing about positive change in rural Himalayan schools is the quality of the teaching.”
All children deserve quality early education
DID YOU K
NOW...?
that almost all schools in rural Nepal:
♢ have teachers who are untrained and lack understanding of child-friendly teaching methods
♢ have classrooms that are totally unsuitable for children and not conducive to learning
♢ lack resources, or any knowledge of how to use them
Find out more about the current state of education in rural Nepal
Your school can transform lives…
one classroom at a time.
Krishna, aged 3
Krishna comes from a big family with 5 other brothers and sisters. His parents are uneducated and work all day on their small piece of land which they rely on for their total income. They really struggle to look after the children.
Krishna attends one of our play-based kindergartens where he loves exploring and getting the start in life that he deserves.
His parents are so grateful that he has somewhere safe to play and learn.
Anushka, aged 4
Anushka loves learning and learnt to read at one of our kindergartens.
She lives in a large village in the midhills near the Tibet border. Her father works as a driver in the capital Kathmandu and is rarely at home.
Her mum is thrilled that Anushka and her sister have had access to such quality early years education.