Trek to Teach has worked with its partners, both local and international for over 10 years to improve the state of English-language education in rural Nepali villages. In the process, we have become deeply involved in the communities where we volunteer and live. Find more info below!

COMMUNITY AND INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS

• School in Kliyu
• Library in Tolka
• ​Chhomrong Repair
• Ghandruk Drinking Fountain
• Kimche Fence

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kliyu's Shree Phumrokhun Baraha Secondary School building
Completed January 2020

Kliyu's main school building was destroyed in Nepal’s 2015 earthquake. The village had slowly rebuilt 2 stories, but they didn’t have the funding for the third floor or a roof to protect students from the elements.
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​TTT partnered with myTEFL to raise 14K to fund the completion of the building so Kliyu can restore their local school and educate their students. The room will be used for classes, extracurricular activities, meetings and dances.

Links to our videos:
Kliyu School Building project
Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Tolka Library
COmpleted May 2017

Tolka is a village of about 80 Nepali families living alongside trekkers finishing the Annapurna Circuit. It’s a poor community and its Shree Himalaya Secondary School had no library until Trek to Teach partnered with WINGS in 2016 and 2017. WINGS raised $5,300 for the build and TTT directed that money to gather materials and local laborers for the project. TTT volunteers and staff, the school’s teachers, and children from the child’s club helped complete all the arrangements for the library’s opening in May 2017. Guests from other TTT partner schools, ACAP representatives, and the school’s teachers, students, and students’ parents participated in the opening ceremony.

Chhomrong SChool Repair
Completed December 2017

​Chromrong’s Shree Dhaulashree Secondary School was in a state of disrepair. Though the government had funded part of its repairs and reconstruction, monsoon rains collapsed the progress, leaving the village without a completed building and without additional funding. For a long time the school’s play yard was riddled with hazardous materials, its classrooms were without paint. The classrooms’ doors shut only loosely, the window-holes let in chilly rains, and a derelict dormitory structure, incomplete and damaged by the monsoon, sat unfinished on school grounds. Trek to Teach helped to propper buy six new doors and eight new windows along with paint and toilets for two rooms in the newly built teacher dormitory building at the school.

Ghandruk Drinking Fountain
​Completed July 2015

Ghandruk is the largest village in the Annapurna area, with several thousand people and a medical centre. Its Shree Meshram Baraha Secondary School saw Trek to Teach’s first ever teacher in 2011. But it too is poor, and the school’s old drinking fountain had a single, decaying tap that splashed students’ ankles. To equip the school with clean drinking-water facilities, in June 2015 TTT raised $2,000, helped source labor and materials, and revealed the new fountain alongside school administrators and local leaders. The fountain’s five taps are fed by new, uncorroded pipes. We’re proud to contribute to our oldest partner school’s educational capacity and make students’ lives a little brighter.

Kimche fence 
Completed December 2018

In 2018 we worked with a local construction committee to build a fence around Jana Premi Lower Secondary School in Kimche because there was a steep cliff drop off that was unsafe for students. Our team provided funding, and together we constructed a wire fence both around the ECD playground and the school’s main building to make students more safe while at school.The school is now protected from a steep drop off and provides a safe area for students to play between classes and after school. The leftover budget for this project was used to paint the school’s office and walls and to fund some much needed minor maintenance work.

Nepal FOod Kits

The COVID-19 pandemic that rocked communities all over the globe in 2020 did not leave the villages of our students and partner schools unscathed. With the health and financial burden that the pandemic placed on these Nepali communities, Trek to Teach partnered with myTEFL in distributing emergency food and hygiene supplies to local families, working with our partner schools as distribution bases.

To learn more, check out blog posts written by our Executive Director, Ashley, about the urgent need for food kits as well as our distribution progress thus far.

Local Teacher Training and Partnerships

Trek To Teach's impact in the classroom doesn't stop when our teachers have said their sad, final goodbyes to their students. A sustainable educational impact entails building up to the main source of our students' English education: local teachers. Over the last few years, we have focused on incorporating local Nepali teachers into our efforts via training programs and partnerships:

Classroom CO-Teaching Partnerships

To ensure the diversified, effective and collaborative ESL-teaching tactics at our partnered schools, we have facilitated co-teaching arrangements between our teachers and local Nepali teachers. Learning from each other to create student centered instruction ensures the institutionalization of improved English-language learning techniques.

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'SOft skill' Workshops

Local Nepali teachers have also benefitted from a number of workshops led by TTT's Nepal-based team at our partner schools. They are aimed at providing the professional and pedagogical resources that are rarely available to rural teachers. Recent workshops include:

• Teaching Workshop (partnership with myTEFL)
• Classroom Non-Violence Focus Group Discussion 

academic impact

Last but certainly not least is the diligent classroom instruction carried out by our TTT teachers. Not only does the presence of native English-speaking teachers invigorate our students and keep them coming back to school day-in and day-out, but it has also lead to measurable improvement in the classroom!

Check the Impact Bar below for our most recent statistics!

Nepali Partner Schools

Local Projects Completed

Nepali Students Served

English Teacher Sent

Percentage of Students Whose English Test Scores

Improve Under TTT Instruction