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Career Disha Nepal ran “Brighten Nepali Youth’s Career” crowd funding campaign on Indiegogo. The aim of the campaign was to develop career counseling services in such a way that they are easily accessible to youths all over Nepal. The campaign lasted for 40 days from 31^st October and ended on the 10^th of December 2017.

Approximately, we were able to collect € 2885 by 26 generous backers in the main Indiegogo page. One of the highlights of the crowd fund was that along with helping youths all over Nepal in a long run, the supports too would directly help at least 1 youth as their perk. Among the 26 backers, 14 claimed CDN basic package, 3 claimed slim package, 5 claimed Competence Assessment 2 supporters claimed 2 slim packaged for the whole class and one claimed teacher training and career workshop for the whole class. Directly as the form of perks, more than 65 young students between the ages 15-18 are going to receive some form of career counseling. Alongside this, 6 teachers from 3 different schools are going to receive CDN Career Helper Training to help their students in long run.

To directly implement the perks, we have already chosen perks recipients considering their needs in terms of career and educational urgency, and financial background. Some backers have chosen perk’s beneficiaries themselves and while for others backers we recommended the best recipients. Within the next 2-3 months, we shall be rewriting to our backers about those students who they directly impacted through holistic career counseling.

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Majority of youths we deal with (even parents or teachers at some instances), in day-to-day interactions, either inside CDN or during workshops outside, we cannot help but notice the immense misconceptions and false-judgement about career counseling, education system, educational options, career options etc. These misconceptions mostly come from lack of knowledge or/and incorrect guidance from various sources. Now, more than ever, we need these misunderstandings removed from their roots.

We have taken a small step to help resolve this massive problem, in the form of bi-weekly information/ training.

Provide small chunk of information for youths to digest

Youths, above all, cannot be over-fed with information regardless of their importance. Therefore, we have thought about making these information sessions short with fixed target. Each session includes topic ranging from increasing one’s efficiency in professional setting to knowing about the evolving education system of Nepal.

Frequency

If not revised, between 50%-80% of information will be forgotten within the first 24 hours, informs the Curve of Forgetting. We therefore, frequent our information/training sessions twice every week (every Tuesday and Thursday). We also give tasks for the youths to stay at the top of their games during and after the sessions.

Make it interactive

If the sessions are boring, we might as well give up right away. Keeping that in mind, we make sure that we keep the variety of learning techniques in the sessions. Visual and graphic representation of the information helps in great length. Since the youth are best at verbal communications (chatting), we take advantage of that skill to make the sessions as alive as possible, while at the same time, parting information and skills.

Share, share, share

We work at the moment with around 7 youths; most of them are active volunteers for CDN. We would like to reach more youths, parents and teachers but distributing information is a complex process, as we might not reach the target audience as effectively as we hope. Therefore, we encourage our attendees to share their newly found knowledge to their friends, family, teachers and all who they believe should get the information.

The above information and training sessions take place in CDN main office every Tuesday and Thursday every week from 11:30 am till 13:00 pm. Also, its free of charge.

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On the 3rd of November 2017, CDN conducted the career orientation workshop to 23 students of grade 8,9,10 and +2 residing at Norbulling children’s home, Boudha Mahankal, Kathmandu. CDN career counselor Hari Krishna Dahal with the help of NCH representative facilitated this workshop.

Norbulilng children’s home (NCH) is a pure humanitarian aid organization established in 2006. NCH is a non-government, non-political and non-profit making organization. NCH is a home for all the needy children in Nepal dedicated to serving the needy children comprising orphan, destitute, underprivileged, street children, child labour etc by providing them a  homely home with full of parental love and affection along with providing quality education, food & shelter. At present, they want to provide each student life-sustaining education and secure their career. NCH and CDN are helping the students find their potential, and guide them further to achieve successful career holistically.

The aim of this interactive workshop was to inform students the importance of career counseling: to have a suitable and successful career based on inborn abilities, interest, and values. On the other hand, to make students more confident and comfortable to share their education and career problems openly with the career counselor to further career counseling approach.

The two hours brainstorming program started with problem-solving games where each participant generated their own ideas interactively and finalized the solution. Students were raising the question regarding career and education. Students cannot wait for the next visit of CDN to participate in the future career counseling sessions.

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Representatives from Career Disha Nepal and the capacity development specialist, Ms Prativa Joshi from National Vocational Qualification System (NVQS) had a small information sharing meeting on the Friday 27^th October 2017.

NVQS is working towards creating a more streamlined education system where the gap between vocational training and formal academics is bridged. The talk was mainly focused on the development and the structure of the current educational system as well as its future. Through the meet, we found out that NVQS working with National Skill Testing Board (NSTB) and Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training (CTEVT) are planning a draft of that system which is to be completed by 2019, according to Ms Prativa Joshi.

The idea is to create an identical field where youth who have completed the vocational training and formal academics have similar career opportunities. This, according to Ms Joshi, could start off by providing certification to youths/students that have successfully completed their vocational training. One of the concepts that we should all be excited is that NVQS too plans to expand the vocation training to an equivalent rate to a PhD graduate. The details, however, are still under construction.

You can find the drafted version of the planned structure through a video that NVQS recently published here.

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We believe that transparency is the essential part of a social business, so we established this summer the process of having an annual report. As it is the first report since we were established, this time we would like to share the journey from CDN in the last 3 years. We hope that this report will open the curtain and show you CDN’s development step by step.

You can find our three years progress report is on the CDN website now, http://www.careerdishanepal.org/annual-reports/ . This report will give insight of CDN, and answers these frequently asked questions, How was CDN initiated?... What is CDN’s journey from past to present? ... What CDN has done outside to career counseling? ... Who are the beneficiaries of CDN services? ... How many people have been benefited already? ... What is the financial situation of CDN? ... With whom does CDN collaborate to reach its goals? ... You will know overall information about CDN from this report. This report is ready to download from this link http://www.careerdishanepal.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/FINAL-Annual_Report-2016.pdf

From 2018 onwards we plan to have a annual report published in spring every year for the past month. We are looking forward to your suggestions on how to improve the report.

Enjoy Reading!

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Did you get guidance about suitable education and career plan according to your interests, personalities and abilities to find your dream job? Due to a lack of information and limited socio-economic circumstances, many young Nepali people don’t get this chance. Career Disha Nepal (CDN) acts to solve the existing problem of youth in Nepal by guiding them to select suitable education and career according to their interests, personalities and abilities. CDN aims to establish a motivated, enthusiastic and thus a successful youth in Nepal helping them to plan their career consciously.  With the huge engagement of our local team and the help of early supporters, we have already created a good basic for guidance. Yet the more we do, the more need we see and the more ideas we have. For creating the impact we hope for we need to still grow in terms of the area we cover as well as services we provide. To reach the tipping point, we need your help. Therefore, we have decided to go online with a Crowdfunding Project, start from 8^th of October which will end on the 5^th of November. WE will update you when our campaign is online.

What is Crowdfunding?

Crowdfunding is a way of raising money for an idea, project, enterprise or charity on an online platform. This is happening with the contribution and help of friends, families, customers as well as individuals who are interested in the idea. Crowdfunding platforms, social media and personal network are the main sources for approaching the people and gain their attention. For this purpose, we chose the online platform: Indiegogo. We are hoping to reach as many people as possible who would like to support to make bright future of the Nepali youth!

Why are we doing this Crowdfunding?

We are self-sustainable in terms of our basic monthly operating cost but we are not yet able to finance the development of new features, comprehensive data collection, research and development as well as developing partnerships in remote areas from the surplus we make.

We want to provide our services in 75 districts and reach at least 20% of the graduating students all over Nepal, by the end of 2019.  Moreover, we want to make CDN services easily accessible to the youth who live in and outside of the Kathmandu Valley with an affordable price for everyone. Therefore, YOUR help is needed. With your help, we would like to:

• Improve the features our software and website provides
• Collect even more fine-graded data about the job market.
• Spend time on exploring partnerships in more remote areas of Nepal

How can you help us?

Everyone can contribute to this campaign; your small effort can make a significant difference in young people’s lives in a long run. There are many ways to support us to reach our goal. You can help us by:

• Donating to our campaign
• Sharing the “Brighten Nepali Youth’s Career” campaign to your personal contacts through social media and help us to reach more Nepali youth to solve their career and education dilemma
• Following and subscribing CDN monthly Newsletter to be updated from our actions

So please spread the word: Happy and successful youth is our path for a developed Nepal.

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On the 6th of September 2017, Career Disha Nepal conducted ‘My Future Pro’ workshop to young students of grade 9 and 10, residing at Forum for the Welfare Himalayan Children organization, Bungmati. This workshop session was one out of 24 sessions of full year career centric activities program which started from 17^th of June 2017.

The exercise included in this workshop called ‘My Future Pro-I’ was designed to help students to identify their three major Interests, to know the steps to develop it, to realize the maximum hours a week they actually spend on each interest, to know ways to build their interest into a career. We have assessed that the students have a set of characteristics that lead their lives and they are most comfortable with. If a similar trend, as well as characteristics, can be found in their future career option the youth would be a) prepared to tackle problems themselves in their own special manner and b) there would be less friction while doing day-to-day tasks.

At the end of this workshop, students are clear about their own interest, the things they really like to do in their leisure time. Students felt pretty amazed by knowing their interest can be turned into a career. Students told us that “this self-reflective exercise realized our personal background profile, the past, present and its link to the future career expectation.”

This interactive group tool workshop was facilitated by CDN Career Counselor Hari Krishna Dahal and CDN Content Writer Shrijana KC.

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To make career counselling accessible to Nepali youth all over Nepal, CDN is paving its path to work together with partners of various backgrounds. We have started our partnership with a community learning centre as well as an NGO which is aiming for gathering Nepali volunteers from all over Nepal; VHS and Himalayan Climate Initiative (HCI).

VHS Bhaktapur is a community learning centre, working with innovative approaches and openness for various sectors to create a new understanding of informal education in Nepal. VHS Bhaktapur is incorporating career counselling by providing the opportunity to all their members, as well as the youth. Since VHS and CDN have similar principles regarding more informed youth and transparent society, our relationship has deepened.While another partner organization HCI (Himalayan Climate Initiative) is a youth driven Nepali Non-profit organization committed to creating social inclusion and climate resilience. Furthermore, we are glad to announce that we brought the partnership with HCI to the next level as we have successfully conducted a first prototype workshop with its team members and volunteers. We are looking forward to a long lasting and mutually beneficial partnership with both of them.

We know that in order to create well-informed youth who are conscious about their career, we have to interject and introduce holistic career counselling to every possible youth related organizations and institutes. VHS and HCI are the pioneering organizations that have advanced with integrated career counselling. We are looking for more.

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Career Disha Nepal’s target has always been to reach the most number of youth who are in dire need of career counseling and education-based guidance. The past year we have catered youth from within the valley, and had to reject youth that were outside our vicinity.

However, we now have expanded our reach to even the most rural part of Nepal via the support of the largest online payment service provider, ESEWA.To reach the youths who cannot appear physically in the CDN Head office Bhaktapur to get basic career and educational guidance, we have integrated eSewa in our website. Not having international online payment providers in Nepal eSewa is the one encouraging cashless payment system.  eSewa is a first digital payment platform in Nepal which allows one to make online and offline payments to various merchandises, transfer funds to various banks and top up the balance in cell phones, pay internet bills, buy airplane tickets, deposit credit card amounts, pay college and school fees and shop using mobile phone or internet.

At present, eSewa has more than five lakhs users.   Now, anyone can pay through eSewa to receive counseling and educational guidance. Youth now can choose between our services; Assessment Slim, Assessment Basic, and Assessment Deluxe, each considering a specific demographic. ‘Assessment Slim’ where students can get personalized online results with recommendations based on 350+ jobs ‘Assessment Basic’ where students know their personalized online results with recommendations based on 350+jobs with 10-minute phone call counseling and a printed or PDF results with the top 10 recommended jobs. . And ‘Assessment Deluxe’ where students get personalized online results along with 45 minutes individual career counseling with a trained career counselor.

We know that teachers as well other educational stakeholders might be interested in providing their students with career and educational guidance. We are expanding our other services and breaking the geographical barrier via eSewa that will cater Schools and Institutes in the coming date.

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CDN Counselor Hari Krishna Dahal with the help of Namaraj K C, conducted the one-day Basic Career Counseling Helper workshop at VHS Bhaktapur. The aim of this workshop was to make participants capable of distinguishing and categorizing the actual needs of the clients and recommending them suitable CDN services accordingly.

The four hours interactive workshop mainly discussed on strategies for handling clients, approaches in dealing with their problems, understanding and categorizing their information, and recommending neediest services.

At the end of this workshop, participants discussed and finalized about the questions that have been already asked by the clients in the past and possible questions that clients may ask in the future. Finally, the client's questions were categorized according to different CDN services to hit the bull's eye easily.

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