Home: Indrapur, Morang, Koshi

Education: Bachelor’s in Public Health, Om Health Campus, Purvanchal University

I completed secondary education in my hometown Biratchowk in Morang district. The community was diverse with people from several ethnic groups residing there. Although my school followed a practical teaching approach to some extent, it heavily relied on the conventional way and was fixated on exams and grades as time went by. I had always stood among the top three students in my class but my ranking plunged to eighth or ninth during the grade 5 final exam. That day, the teachers reminded me of how disappointing the result was and how I had made them all feel ashamed. The constant ideation of achieving something on my own emboldened me to apply for the Fellowship at Teach For Nepal. The more I learned about the organization, the more I became interested to be part of the change-maker movement. Moreover, TFN’s motto of equity in education and reaching the unreachable inspired me as much as it fascinated me.