Home: Chapagaon, Kathmandu, Bagmati

Education: BSc. (Chemistry), Patan Multiple Campus

I grew up attending both private and public schools. I have first hand experience when it comes to the issue of educational inequality between public and private schools. One year in public school, I secured the highest percentage in my class but had to repeat a year when I transferred to a private school because of my poor English.

I am proud of my educational attainment. I belong to a lower middle class family and my parents had no formal education. Given my parents’ poor economic abilities, it was very difficult to get to where I am now, academically. I almost dropped out of school and worked a local job like my brothers, but I decided to continue with my education. I feel happy that I will have completed my Bachelor’s degree very soon.

I came to know about Teach For Nepal from my school, Jyotidaya Cooperative Secondary School. I was certain that I wanted to be a part of this movement. Before finding out about Teach For Nepal, I felt like I was a frog trapped inside a well. I knew that I had a lot of potential but I never a chance to use it. I had been wondering about my purpose in life, and when I came across the Fellowship, it seemed like an answer to my questions.

I felt like I was flying when I came to know that I had been accepted as a Fellow. But some people, including my teachers, were not happy with my decision to join. They told me I would be wasting my time with TFN.

None of it mattered to me because at the end of the day, I had my family’s support, and I stood by my decision.

I have always been passionate about teaching, and I wanted to do something to eradicate educational inequity in my nation. Teach for Nepal is providing me with this very opportunity. I look forward to learning from the challenges I will have to face in order to reach our goal.

Eventually, I want to be a world renowned professor in the field of chemistry. I see myself making a name for myself and my nation working for a discovery team. At the same time, I want to contribute to the education field in Nepal so that we can change theory based education system to a more practical one. And I am sure that the two years’ experience of Fellowship in Teach For Nepal will be the first step towards my goal.