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The Mountain Trust

The Mountain Trust. Nepal’s education can be improved. The Mountain Trust – a UK/Nepalese c harity , has worked for 8 years with rural Nepalese communities and has begun broadcasting school programmes alongside other activities.

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The Mountain Trust

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  1. The Mountain Trust

  2. Nepal’s education can be improved • The Mountain Trust – a UK/Nepalese charity, has worked for 8 years with rural Nepalese communities and has begun broadcasting school programmes alongside other activities. • “Radio Guru” will scale up the existing work, distributing wind-up radio receivers to the underserved communities and expanding existing FM school radio coverage to offer quality education for all. • Many children work in the mountains crushing stones with no education or health-care and only a subsistence diet. • Long-term improvements require education. • In many mountainous areas it is impossible to get good teachers and children have to work. Current experience and studies from UNICEF show radio is already an effective solution. Hence the “Radio Guru” Project.

  3. Radio Guru: school on airfor the mountainous regions

  4. Projected targets for Radio Guru:children reached and milestones 1,500,000 Target children reached 1,000,000 500,000 400,000 150,000 20,000 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2008 • Effectiveness review of method and progress • Expansion of hours of operation • Expansion of curriculum to include primary and adult education • Pilot phase • Increase awareness • Teacher recruitment and curriculum development • Technology investment to increase area of operation • Start expansion of counties reached • Current work in mountain communities shows positive response • Not enough awareness of the project

  5. DFID in education in Nepal DFID has • Raised primary school enrolment from 82% to 89% DFID will help…(by 2015) Although only 42% of those who enroll actually finish secondary school • Build over 400 new classrooms & repair 200 • 7000 additional children enroll to school • Provide 250,000 textbooks • Increase the number of children from excluded • groups to complete school Although difficult to measure impacts and many needs remain un-served Source: DFID Development in Nepal 2009-2012

  6. We are working towards the same goals

  7. Mountain Trust’s principles

  8. “Radio Guru” project can promote and demonstrate DFID’s impact

  9. Results possible with staggered funding £350,000 Run project throughout Nepal for 5 years • Technology investment to increase area of operation • Start expansion of counties reached • Expansion of curriculum to include primary and adult education £100,000 End pilot project Reach 2010 targets £50,000 • Effectiveness review of method and progress • Expansion of hours of operation Begin pilot projects in specific areas • Pilot phase • Increase awareness • Teacher recruitment and curriculum development

  10. Summary: Benefits of Radio Guru • Reproduction in other remote areas of the world, such as Afghanistan

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