Costly Education: Kids on a Wire
Treacherous road to education in rural Nepal.
Treacherous road to education in rural Nepal.
What does the way the country has treated the earthquake victims of the April 25 tell us about the State of Nepal and about the worth of the people of Nepal?
Education is for freedom: freedom from the constraints of having to think, having to subscribe to attitudes and having to behave in ways dictated by the culture and society one is born into (whether in Nepal or elsewhere); freedom from the socioeconomic shackles one is born into if born into a low socioeconomic context in countries like Nepal and others.
We have two untouchables in Nepal: the ones most others don't want to touch and the ones most others can't touch! A lone man of conviction and principle is trying a group who fall in the latter camp putting his life on the line!