CLCR’S Future Visions for a Violence free Nepali Class Room

The following concepts are some of what we are looking at trying to achieve within Nepal in the future, whilst our school and education based projects are our major priority we do have plans for further development within the country.

Whilst we have now established a CLCR branch in Nepal as a further NGO body (CLCR Nepal) to extend our reach and further our opportunity for positive intervention into underprivileged children’s lives. We will also utilize this body as an opportunity to extend the school project and focus upon the following in an effort to bring long term social change to Nepal:

Stage: 1.

The Network of Child Rights Protectors

Create a network of in country and global organizations to work with the Nepalese Government and the Ministry of Education’s legal sector in an effort to eradicate Corporal Punishment within all schooling sectors. The current law that states that although it’s is illegal to use violence against children when disciplining them, it has not stopped the long engrained practice of physical beatings in classrooms. Basically we want this situation changed in an effort to make schools a safer place for kids to learn, have fun and not live in fear.

Stage: 2.

The Heartland Teacher Training Centre

Coordinately stage two of this plan is to link this action to providing the skills training to teachers so that they can manage children’s needs without the use of violence. We are already doing this on a small scale within our own school to demonstrate to the parents, local community and other schools surrounding that you don’t have to use violence against children to manage their in class needs. Thus we are looking to partner with the Education agencies in Nepal (universities, training colleges) that provide teacher training and qualifications to implement compulsory subjects within their overall courses that focus upon child psychology, development of violence free student management techniques, & relevant teaching skills that don’t just involve lecturing straight from the text books. On our current school and operational site we also are planning to construct an accredited teachers training facility so that we can be more effective at directly training the teachers of Nepal in teaching methods of non-violence on a much larger more effective scale.

This is one part of our long term vision for the education sector and society of Nepal, we truly believe that education is the key to creating a better Nepal, educate those that can make a difference and the next generation of the country, that’s our vision for a safer country.