Mitrataa Foundation - Projects

This project aims to deal with 2 major challenges facing children in Nepal:

Providing an alternative to rote learning by teaching different study methods and skills, and also important life skills; and
Providing a suitable environment for kids to do their homework and receive valuable mentoring and access to resources.

We will do this through the establishment of Dream Centres – places where children can go after school to receive training and mentoring in skills for learning and skills for life. The centres will be clean, bright and set up with kids in mind. This means they will be colourful and include fun elements such as cushions for sitting on the floor to study. The centres will also be equipped with a small library of resources and computer and printing facilities.

The Dream Centres will be operated for a couple of hours after school each day and will be staffed be qualified teachers who will have received additional training in learner centred methods of teaching and life skills teaching including problem solving, study planning and organisational skills.

One of the most exciting outcomes we plan to come from the centres is assisting children to identify their passions and the skills they are good at, and to help them harness these skills and abilities for their futures.

Dream Centres will be open to all school children with those students who are able to pay being charged a small fee, which will in turn subsidise disadvantaged children. In some areas, the entire centre will be sponsored by the Foundation if needed.

Current Status

Click here to read the project outline.
We are presently investigating locations for the first centres and an initial pilot centre.
We are planning for the pilot centre to be up and running in the next few months.

How YOU Can Help

We are looking for motivated individuals/organisations to "sponsor" a centre. This could include financial support as well as a visit to Nepal to help in the work of establishing the centre! Why not make this project part of a working holiday/volunteer experience?!
Resources in the form of text books, kids’ books and educational software would be particularly useful and much appreciated.