Regarding a closed education project, a local Nepali government education officer said: “This was the only program that led children aged 10 to 18 from darkness into light, the gateway for those who never reached school.” She goes on to comment that there is no budget, no staff, and no mechanism to continue. Teachers no longer visit villages. Classes have disbanded. Computers sit unused because no teachers are trained to operate them.

Date: 12/25

Region: South Asia

Country: Nepal

Topic: Gender Equality & Inclusion, Education

Policy Lens: Moral Leadership

Additional Context: This quote was collected as part of The Aid Report’s original reporting, “US aid cuts yank Nepal’s girls out of school and into child marriage.” The feature story examined a short-lived U.S.-funded education program that brought teachers to villages where girls had never been permitted to attend school. When the program abruptly ended, many of those girls were left without a way to continue their education and faced renewed pressure to marry.

This quote is attributed to Chhoti Mukhiya, local government education officer at Ganeshman Charnath municipality, which had become a model for reaching children who had never attended school.

Source: Devex