Home: Pokhara, Kaski, Gandaki

Education: Bachelor’s of Business Administration, Bachelor’s of Business Administration

I graduated with the ‘Best Graduating Student Award’ from Ace Institute of Management with Business Administration – Banking and Insurance degree before deciding to join the Fellowship. Throughout four years of Bachelor’s degree, my teachers helped me gain confidence and provided me with opportunities to participate in extracurricular activities and different programs. They provided platforms for me to conduct programs where I developed my leadership qualities. And for all those encouragement and support, I’ll be forever thankful to my teachers. While pursuing my degree, I worked as a Marketing Officer in a company in Nepal where I excelled but was never satisfied. Whenever I had time, I volunteered in various non-profit organizations in Nepal and that is when I met Shisir Khanal and Swastika Shrestha, co-founders of Teach For Nepal, during a Shramdana Camp at Sikharpa, Lele.

In the course of the programme, I got really inspired by their vision and their drive to end education inequality. By the end of Shramdana, I knew I wanted to be a part of the movement. Like my teachers who changed my story, I could change the story of children in rural Nepal by guiding them to become better students, bracing them to dream, encouraging them to improve and making them believe that they are capable of bringing systematic and beautiful change to our nation.

In my journey as a Teach For Nepal Fellow, I want to explore gaps that can be closed in the future for the advancement of our rural society. I want to transform the lives of children as well as people living in community by helping them learn about rural entrepreneurship and enormous unharnessed opportunities available in rural Nepal. Moreover, I want to spread as many smiles as I can and remind myself and people around me that there’s still joy in the world.

After my Fellowship, I want to apply the experience I gain from my Fellowship to pursue Master’s degree in Economic Development Studies.