As a part of our vision to make education accessible and inclusive, we started a project to create digital content that can assist students to learn the Nepali Sign Language (NSL). Known as Sanketik Sikai, the collection consists of 60 modules of digital activities embedded with sign language videos for young students with hearing impairments.

April is known as the Autism Awareness month and the theme for this year was “Inclusive Quality Education For All”. Since over a decade, OLE Nepal has been working toward making education accessible, inclusive and meaningful for all. But despite the ongoing efforts we put into creating content for learners with different needs, people still do not have a strong understanding of what it means to be neurodivergent.

For the program team at OLE Nepal, 2020 was the year we had planned to visit all of our laptop program schools in the far-western region of Nepal to assess their progress and to provide programmatic and technical support. It was also an opportunity for us to meet with new teachers and local educational authorities.

To take interactive learning to the next level, we started exploring and experimenting with building educational games for middle school with the pK-12 Education Innovation grant from Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

I joined OLE Nepal’s teaching with technology residency program in 2018, after completing my Bachelor’s in Social Work and Psychology from Tribhuwan University. I was one for three teaching residents to support 15 laptop program schools in the remote district of Darchula.