Our Vision

The REDC is an initiative of a rural community in the heartland of Nepal. We believe that a better future for all of us starts with our children. We believe that children grow up to be healthier happier adults when they receive quality education, meaningful education. Education should not be focused on acquiring knowledge only, on developing cognitive skills only. Education should also include physical (motor skills at young age), emotional and social skills.

We believe a child is like a flower and that it can only blossom if we give it the care and attention but also the space that it needs. A teacher should help the child develop the potential it already holds inside. Keywords for this type of education are: creative, interactive, playful, stimulating, inspiring. Keywords for this type of teacher are: loving, caring, listening, understanding.

A child needs to learn how to think more than it needs to learn what to think. Many children “know” all kinds of information by heart without actually knowing what this information means and how they can turn it to use in everyday life. Literacy alone is not education; it is only a means to education. Education must make a person better able to live his or her life.

Our Mission

Our aim is to create a higher standard of education for all our children. We want to update the school system in rural Nepal and bring it into step with the school system that is already in place in the urban areas like the Kathmandu Valley. Since we cannot afford to bring our children to these better institutions, our goal is to “bring” these kinds of institutions to our children. However, we do not literally intend to invite urban schools to set up schools here; we want to improve the local schools already present with extra facilities to upgrade them to a higher standard.

Most of all, we want a new type of atmosphere in our schools, an atmosphere of love and care between children and teachers. The beating of children by teachers must stop. Violence in our schools must come to an end. Corporal punishment will never motivate children to perform better in school; it will only create frustrated youngsters whose only answer to problems later on in life will be quarrel and aggression. Our country has seen 10 years of civil war, and it is high time our children learn to know that there is another way and it is high time to help them install love in their hearts and thus in our society and our country as a whole. Peace must start at home!