Rural Education Development Center

The Rural Education Development Center (REDC) is a nepali NGO aiming toward a better education of the children in the rural areas of Nepal. The REDC consists of school principals, former principals, teachers, student-teachers as well as parents of school going children. Their common denominator is that they love children and that they believe that education should help them to develop fully. The REDC is a platform for discussion that is right there at the grassroots level but most of all it is an organization that acts and does things rather than just talks about doing things. All its members are young, energetic and dynamic. You will find no old men sounding bombastic at stuffy desks here!

The REDC is seated in the heartland of Nepal, in a small community in the foothills of the Himalaya, in the district of Kaski. It is therefore mostly active in this area but its action is certainly not limited to it. The REDC members all come from poor rural backgrounds (and indeed most of us still live there) and therefore know what it’s like to be a child in a rural school in Nepal. We, like no other, know what our children need but what they are lacking now.

The REDC identifies and subsequently helps primary schools in rural Nepal that have a real need for aid and that at the same time have an environment welcoming improvements and change. Because, although it might be hard to believe, not all schools, unfortunately, think that the act of beating children to keep them focused on their lessons should be replaced by teaching in a more interesting way. In fact, most schools in rural Nepal still hold the belief that the best teacher is the one who screams loudest and the one who beats the children the most.

Finally, the REDC is working closely together with an INGO that has been based in the rural area for almost half a decade and that functions as its main advisory body: the Maya Foundation.