At a presentation to children and families from lower-middle class and lower class in Mexico, I share with them how I followed my dreams and beat the odds to achieve academic and professional success. I share with them how I did it, and to tell them to not lose hope!
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.
I applied for a UWC scholarship because I had "a strong desire to learn more about the world and the people who live on it" and to get a much better education.
When a high achieving student from a private school is not assured of the results expected in SLC, what faith can one have on the examination?
My "Senior Biography" entry in the 1986 Jumbo Issue of the Godavarian, our secondary school magazine. It details what I wanted to be and my recollections of the 9 years at St. Xavier's school.
Details of the discrimination I faced in Nepal, what I do, and why I do what I do for those who suffer even more discrimination!