PATHWAYS TO PROGRESS C4C

PATHWAYS TO PROGRESS

A cooperation project with C4C, Alternatives and FEDO has started!! Project is a "Pathways to Progress" pilot which will help to develop future projects but still is fully functioning independent project.

Project has been divided into three separate sections: three months, three months and six months. Project is aimed for young people who have least opportunities in their lives and who are unemployed. First priority have youngsters from dalit or minority communities, but our projects are inclusive for all the casts and gender. C4C works always in cooperation with Nepalese organizations and NGOs and these partners have opportunity and responsibility to select the participant.

Now first three month projects has started in Kathmandu and Pokhara, and will also start after two weeks in Gyampesal at Gorkha district. Kathmandu and Gyampesal project will have first three months only English lessons.

Pokhara project differs from other two in a way that in the first three month period alongside with English lessons there will be workshops organized by partners. C4C is a leading partner and will run six workshops and last day, FEDO will run two workshops and Alternatives four. Project started 16th of December and will last for 12 weeks. Alternatives and FEDO both selected 8 participants and these 16 participant are 20 - 29 years old women and men.

Founder and president of Alternatives Samundra Poudel at Human Rights day march

Chameli Pariyar President of FEDO Pokhara at Expressive Arts workshop

Meeting: James Howell, Rajani Gahatraj, Samundra Poudel, Santos Koirala, Chameli Pariyar and me (behind the camera)

 Workshops run by partners will have topics like: outdoor education, environmental education & sustainability, entreprenurialship, leadership, gender issues and trainers toolbox.

 In future "Pathways to Progress" projects there will be three months English lessons, three months "Pathfinder" training where these young Nepali people will be trained to use outdoor- and environmental education methods. During the last six months of the training participants will be using new skills and methods in Nepali schools providing a possibility a large number of Nepali children to have outdoor classroom experience.

After one year project participants are ready to apply a job, create own enterprise and they will be supported on their future plans.

Scenery from Alternatives office

In Pokhara English lessons are run by Cosmic Brontosaurus Language School and Prem Kunwar and  C4C workshops are run by me and Head of programs Nepal James Howell.

We spend inspiring two days starting the workshops. First two hours English lessons and after traditional Nepali lunch (Daal Bat) we spend the first day getting to know each other by using small activities and games. Second day was a city adventure which ended up to the Parahi Temple island.

We would like to thank to the partners for all the hard work we have done together!! Future looks bright and we are looking forward to the next workshops and future with these participants and participants to come!!

First Pathfinder project group at Parahi Temple Island with James