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Watch a journey of discovering open data in Nepal
Published June 07, 2015Data journalist Gyanu Sharma leads us through Kathmandu Valley to meet various stakeholders of open data, in this short documentary. In his search for the right public school for his son, we see him seeking information about the financing of public schools, a sector that is underfunded in Nepal.
Map of reported #nepalearthquake deaths, injured, and houses damaged
Published April 29, 2015Updated on May 22, 4pm EST
What would Nepal look like if there were just 100 people?
Published April 18, 2015Recent Code for Nepal stories in Nepali media: women, education and inequality
Published April 18, 2015
A story in Nepali based on Code for Nepal’s data anaysis was published in my republica of Nepal.
Status of women in Nepal in 5 charts
Published March 08, 2015
Aasu Ram and another woman from the community explain their toilet mural, Ganespur Community of Bastipur NEWAH WASH project Siraha, Udayapur District, Nepal. Photo by Jim Holmes for AusAID.
5 most and least educated districts in Nepal
Published February 27, 2015
Students in Nepal. Photo Credit: DFAT, Australia
Women prisoners increased by 239% in Nepal
Published February 20, 2015In the last 8 years, the number of women prisoners increased by more than 230%. That’s shockingly a lot. We are not sure why that’s happening. We do know that recently prison inmates were forced to sleep in plastic sheds and that inmates are forced to live under open sky at the Dadeldhura prison in Nepal.
My initiative to teach computer skills
Published November 03, 2014
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It is my privilege to be a part of Code for Nepal. I have learned so many things being a fellow of Code for Nepal. And the most crucial for me being a #C4N14 Fellow is my final project. As part of the Digital Empowerment training, we, all fellows, were asked to make a final project on any social issues in Nepal.
Initially I had no idea what to do. Then one day during Digital Empowerment training, Ravi Kumar, the co-founder for Code for Nepal, asked us what bothered us. At that instance, street children came in my mind. Then I thought why not to make a project to teach the street girls computer skills.
Although I decided to do this project, it was not easy. Oscillating between organizations was exhausting. After nearly two months, I was able to conduct my project with Child Watabaran Center.
This September I taught 10 girls of Child Watabaran Center basic computer skills. For them, Google and YouTube were completely strange.
When I went for the first day to teach, I clearly remember, one student came to me and requested me to teach them how to use Google. She had heard about Google and Facebook but she did not know how it appeared in computer screen. I attempted to teach them my best and hope that I could meet their expectations.
I conducted training for 4 days. During that tenure, they learned basic computer skills like creating new user account, setting password, making new folders and how to turn on and off computer, to use MS Word and PowerPoint . They were able to do research on Google, create new email address.
During the training, I was impressed by their enthusiasm. They always wanted to learn more and asked me whether I could teach more new things.
The satisfaction when they said they learned new thing with sweet smile was indescribable. I want to thank Code for Nepal for providing me this opportunity to help others.