After a successful year of bringing quality learning opportunities to children in schools all over Nepal, we at OLE Nepal are already looking forward to what awaits us in 2017. This is also a special year for us as we will be celebrating 10 years of working together with governmental agencies, partner organizations, education enthusiasts, communities, teachers and many wonderful individuals committed to transform the way children learn! We plan to use the 10th year not just to reflect on our successes and shortcomings, but also to study the lessons learned and hold discussions with stakeholders to set the vision for the next 10 years.

This year we will be making a major push to make our E-Paath learning content available to schools all across the country. According to the Department of Education (DoE)’s estimates, there are about 11,000 schools in the country that already have computers, and we will be working together to distribute E-Paath loaded on CDs to all these schools through 1050 Resource Centers spread across the country. We plan to provide each Resource Center with 5 CDs that they can circulate to schools in the area that have computers.

We will continue to expand our laptop program in the remote far western region with 15 new schools in Doti in partnership with UN World Food Programme. We will also be sending our first cohort of teaching residents to Baitadi for a year long residency program to support teachers and schools that have just started to use laptops in their classrooms. Laptop program will also be launched Gorkha after the completion of the reconstruction of school buildings that were damaged by the April 2015 earthquake.

We also plan to improve and upgrade our popular E-Pustakalaya digital library in 2017. The digital library repository was first designed back in 2008-09, and now is in need for technology upgrade and other enhancements for better user experience. We plan to add many new features, and also release the next version of our android app.

We will continue to innovate and test new methods and technologies to further our mission to improve the quality of education and reduce the disparity in access to quality education. And we hope to join hands with more groups and individuals who have similar vision and goals so that we can enrich learning for more children in Nepal and abroad.