Working with the future
Banke, mid-west Nepal
by Babita Mishra
I am a teacher. I love being with children. It is quite
amazing to work with young people who are very young. I teach children aged 2
to 6 in mid-west Nepal, Banke district. Banke is in the Terai plains of Nepal.
There is a strong Muslim community here, there are also the madhesi people, the
Tharu indigenous people, and people who have travelled from different parts of
Nepalese hills and mountains and plains.
Nepalgunj, where I live and teach is an important city of
Nepal linking the west and the farwest of the nation with the central and the
eastern region. Everyone has to go through this area and most air flights first
land in Nepalgunj before heading out to the rest of the west. I teach at Kaveri
Bidhya Niketan English Medium School in Bhrikuti Nagar, Banke-13 of Nepalgunj.
I am very pleased to be a part of this Genius Event 2018.
I am involved with 200 children in my school. I shared with my children the
idea of genius and how we can contribute to others with our abilities, talent, and
imagination. I and my friends discussed genius and here are a few names and
young people we thought would be worth mentioning in a global event such as
this.
While all the children are special to me, I am particularly
impressed by Radha BK who is brilliant at learning, she is talented, does all
her homework, and is great at dancing (which unfortunately her guardians don’t
seem to prefer). She comes from the so called lower caste of Nepal and I
believe that she will make a different to herself, her family and her community
bringing down social barriers and bad traditions.
Another wonderful wonderful child is Samir Khan who
belongs to the Muslim community. He is very good at discussions and
communication and art. He loves to read, study and shows great promise for the
future. Nepal was an officially Hindu nation for a long time. After the advent
of the new democracy, it has become secular. Samir represents all that is
amazing about children and how they can contribute coming from different
economic, religious, and social backgrounds to their people and their country.
Anita Mirya is also a Muslim girl. From every aspect that
I look at, I see her doing well in studies, she talks to her friends about what
she knows and shares her knowledge. She is a natural born leader even at this
early age.
I feel so privileged to be able to share the lives of
children and to be a part of their growing. I am thankful to Spiny Babbler and
92Y for allowing me to share the wonderful lives with the rest of the world. I
believe that like Shushil Koirala who grew up in my district and led the
political world for so many decades and became prime minister, that my
children, too, will one day make a huge difference in their own different and
wonderful ways.
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