Empowering Nepal's Next Generation

A future where no child's potential goes unguided.

Every year, over 500,000 students in Nepal make life-defining decisions without any career guidance — and you can help change that.

5,000+ students guided
across Nepal
5,000+ Students Guided
50+ High Schools Partnered
Youth-Led Educational Empowerment
STEM Club Startup Kits
Post-SEE Stream Guidance
Leadership & Personality Development
Environmental Stewardship
Digital Literacy & Innovation
5,000+ Students Guided
50+ High Schools Partnered
Youth-Led Educational Empowerment
STEM Club Startup Kits
Post-SEE Stream Guidance
Leadership & Personality Development
Environmental Stewardship
Digital Literacy & Innovation
500,000+
SEE graduates annually face uncertain futures
78%
choose streams without any career counseling
0
formal career guidance programs in most public schools

The Challenge & Our Response

Nepal's public education system carries deep structural shortcomings that have persisted for decades. At Navigo Nepal, we have built each of our interventions in direct, deliberate response to these realities — not as abstract programs, but as solutions engineered from the ground up.

Students in a rote-learning classroom environment
The Challenge
01

Rote Learning Dominates the Classroom

Across the majority of public schools in Nepal, the pedagogical model remains almost entirely exam-centric. Students are trained to memorize facts, reproduce answers under pressure, and pass standardized tests — with little to no emphasis placed on the reasoning processes that underpin those answers. Critical thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and creative inquiry are treated as peripheral luxuries rather than foundational skills.

Navigo Nepal interactive workshop session

Our Response

Interactive, Inquiry-Led Workshops

We replace the lecture format with structured workshop experiences built around real-world case studies, diagnostic assessments, peer debates, and hands-on projects. Our facilitators guide students through the reasoning process itself — teaching them how to think, evaluate, and build arguments independently. Every session is designed to make curiosity the engine of learning.

02

The Stream Selection Crisis at Grade 10

The transition from Grade 10 to Grade 11 represents the single most consequential academic decision in a Nepali student's life — yet it is routinely made without any structured guidance. Families default to convention; social pressure dictates science over commerce, arts are rarely considered, and individual aptitude goes unmeasured. The result is a high rate of stream regret, mid-course dropout, and a career trajectory misaligned with a student's actual strengths.

Our Response

Structured Career Navigation After SEE

Navigo Nepal delivers psychometric-based stream counseling sessions timed precisely around the SEE result cycle. Through aptitude diagnostics, interest mapping, and one-on-one mentorship pathways, we ensure that students make stream decisions backed by self-knowledge rather than guesswork. Our counselors translate data into actionable guidance that families and students can act on together.

Career navigation session at Navigo Nepal
Students navigating stream selection decisions
The Challenge
Student with silenced passions due to academic pressure
The Challenge
03

Passions Silenced by Academic Pressure

The unrelenting focus on examination scores forces students to deprioritize — and ultimately abandon — their interests in technology, art, sports, and community leadership. Schools rarely create institutional space for extracurricular development, and students who might excel as engineers, environmentalists, or social innovators graduate with no infrastructure through which their talents were ever exercised. The dormancy of this potential is one of the most significant losses our education system produces.

Student-led club activities facilitated by Navigo Nepal

Our Response

Student-Led Clubs & Movements

We partner with school administrations to help students build and sustain their own STEM clubs, debate societies, environmental committees, and leadership councils — entirely student-run, with Navigo providing structure, toolkits, and periodic mentorship. These clubs become the institutional home for passion, giving students the ongoing context they need to develop non-academic skills that will define their careers.

Conventionality ends here. Practicality starts now.

Join the movement that is reshaping how Nepal's youth transition from classroom to career.

Explore Our Programs

The System Prepared Them for Exams.
We Prepare Them for Life.

Nepal's education system leaves over 500,000 SEE graduates each year without career direction, practical skills, or real-world mentorship. Navigo Nepal exists to change that.

The Origin Story

Born From Grassroots.
Driven By Impact.

Three young visionaries realized the school system left SEE graduates unprepared, and set out to build a practical learning bridge.


Our Foundation

Our Vision & Core Mandate

A youth-led movement bridging the transition to higher studies and equipping students with real-world skills, guidance, and community leadership.

Our Mission

Fostering Educational Agency

Our Vision

A Nation of Inspired Leaders

Navigo Nepal - Students
Student Centric

Founders Message

A Message from Our Leadership

Navigo Nepal Co-Founders
Est. 2024

Anupam Neupane, Biyog Man Dangol, & Prajwal Dhungana

Co-Founders, Navigo Nepal
2024
Year Founded
13+
Active Members
15+
Partner Schools
24
Districts Covered

Our Practical Paradigm

How Are We Unique?

Bridging the gap between conventional education and real-world leadership through active, peer-to-peer exploration.

We Give Students What We Never Got

We want students to have sufficient exposure regarding things that generally matter not just in their academics but in their whole life. We do not pave our path through standard advocacy. Yes, we go to schools and explain things, but we do it in a fundamentally different way.

Students interact among themselves, run debate sessions, handle group discussions, organize problem-solving sessions, and engage through interactive games so they never feel like they are being lectured. At the end of the sessions, they connect the dots and gain the exposure they need for their learning path.

Debates Group Discussions Problem-Solving Games Interactive Workshops
Mentorship session
E-Spark workshop
Community engagement
Youth Leadership Summit

Beyond Advocacy, Into Action

After running introductory advocacy sessions, we organize hands-on camps and provide students the opportunity to learn by doing. Through our Entrepreneurial Spark sessions, students interested in business, economics, computer science, or leadership gain real experience through active product development and collaborative simulation.

Transmitting across the nation. We designed a network framework to transmit our programs to youth coordinators across Nepal. We provide them with all the necessary training before they deliver this to their schools, leveraging a network of passionate youth leaders eager to drive local change.

Entrepreneurial Spark Product Development Nationwide Training District Navigers
Navigo Nepal Student Network

Past Projects & Executed Sessions

Review detailed logs of our student engagements, geographic coverage, volunteer coordination, and real metrics achieved during our projects.

SEE and Grade 12 Counseling Campaign

Bridging the transitional gap after basic schooling (grade 10 SEE) and high school (grade 12) so students can select their academic stream wisely. Sessions focus on stream parameters, career options, scholarship applications, and hands-on club orientation.

Campaign Schools & Impact Details

School Name Location Students Reached Clubs Formed
Shree Chandra Jyoti School Pipaltar, Nuwakot 100 (Grades 9 & 10) 5 Active Clubs
Dhading Gurukul Dhading District 40 Students 1 Club
Whizkids International School Baluwatar, Kathmandu 40 Students 5 Clubs
Yuva Sahavagita School Swayambhu, Kathmandu 45 Students -
Jyoti Academy Sitapaila, Kathmandu 40 Students 2 Clubs
Advanced English Boarding HS HadiGaun, Kathmandu 60 Students -
Shree Tangal Secondary School Tangal, Kathmandu 140 Students 4 Clubs
Columbus International School Maligaun, Kathmandu 60 Students 3 Clubs
Arunima Educational Foundation Jorpati, Kathmandu 200 Students -
Shangri-la Public School Jorpati, Kathmandu 50 Students 1 Club
Pashupati Mitra Secondary School Chabahil, Kathmandu 40 Students -
Shree Bhumeshwori Secondary School Sindhupalchowk 140 Students 4 Clubs
Parbat District School Parbat 40 Students 2 Clubs
Baglung District School Baglung 60 Students -
Rupandehi District School Rupandehi 60 Students 3 Clubs

Leadership & Personality Workshops

Cultivating core skills (teamwork, communication, critical thinking, confidence) through active play. Designed specifically at the request of school authorities for Scout and student groups, teaching leadership concepts dynamically without dry lecturing.

Leadership Training Logs

School Name Target Group Students Reached Key Activities & Outcomes
Gyanodaya Secondary School Scout Students 120 Students Balloon Game, "How Many F's" critical thinking check, announced collaborative **Eco Clubs** setup.
Padmodaya Secondary School Scout & General Group 60 Students Communication and cooperation challenges, positive feedback channels for future leadership tracks.

AIESEC x Navigo Nepal SDG 13 Climate Action

Collaborated with AIESEC on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) program. We educated young students about climate change and human impact, utilizing group discussions, art activities, drawings, and interactive games in schools without slide projection resources.

AIESEC Collaboration Sessions

School Name Location Students Reached Navigo Organizers / Members
Steiner Academy Old Baneshwor, Kathmandu 30 (Class 8) Prajwal Jung Thapa, Monsoon Khatiwada
Mount SEB School Jadibuti, Bhaktapur 60 (Class 8) Biyog Man Dangol, Sunayan Poudel, Krishav Jung Shahi
Everest School Thaiba, Kathmandu 40 (Class 6) Rishav Bhattarai, Prajwal Dhungana
NJSN High School Narephat, Kathmandu 80 (Classes 6, 7 & 8) Pratik Ban, Atal Raj Poudel
Navjyoti School Tinkune, Kathmandu 35 (Class 6) Aabrity Poudel, Sanju Thapa, Biprash Pandey
Asha Mandir School Baneshwor, Kathmandu 60 (Classes 6, 7 & 8) Anupam Neupane & Volunteer Team

World Environment Day Awareness Campaign

Partnered with local organizations and the Kathmandu Metropolitan City 'BaBa Program' to drive environmental stewardship. Supported by USAID Clean Air and UNICEF Nepal, these activities focused on hands-on conservation models and public advocacy.

Environment Day Event Logs

Campaign Activity Target Audience Organizers & Partners Outcomes / Highlights
Plastic Bottle Gardening Community School Students Navigo Nepal, UNICEF Nepal, USAID Clean Air Repurposed plastic bottles to build vertical wall gardens, teaching reuse.
Environmental Rallies Public & Community Members Students, teachers, and Kathmandu Metro BaBa Program Street rallies raising awareness for climate protection, air quality, and local ecology.
Face Painting & Art Exhibits School Children Local school students and volunteers Creative environmental art exhibitions and pamphlets highlighting climate action steps.

Connect Tech to Veda

A pilot research project connecting traditional Vedic/Sanskrit education with contemporary computer tools. Initiated after the co-founders noticed that despite having resources, students lacked training. We taught computer basics and artificial intelligence applications.

Tech to Veda Logs

Location / Institution Target Group Sessions / Materials Project Objectives
Brahmeshwor Gurukul Gurukul Vedic Students Basic Computer Literacy & AI Tools Orientation Connecting spiritual studies with modern software tools; preparing Vedic scholars for a digital world.

Geographic Impact Map

Interact with our vector province mapping to examine localized school affiliations, students mentored, and active youth clubs.

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Explore Provincial Impact

Select or hover over any province on the map to view schools connected, student counts, and core milestones.


Success Stories & Journeys

Hear from students whose lives have been transformed through Navigo Nepal's mentorship and educational programs.


Navigo Coordinators

Eight individuals. One shared purpose — to ensure every student in Nepal has the guidance, exposure, and confidence to navigate their future.

Prasoon Bhatta
Director

Prasoon Bhatta

“Equip students with the essential knowledge, skills, and opportunities to become capable leaders.”

SB
IT & Social Media Head

Sakshyam Bastakoti

“Inspire future generations to recognize environmental stewardship as a noble cause.”

Usnish Bajra
Event Coordinator

Usnish Bajra

“Free the minds of students from the walls of classrooms and let them see a universe of opportunities.”

Ansu Adhikari
Communication Head

Ansu Adhikari

“Learn, lead, and lift — empowering students to confidently navigate their future.”

Abhi KC
Treasurer

Abhi KC

“Where conventionality ends and practicality starts.”

PP
Research & Presentation Head

Prithivi Raj Poudel

“End the conventionality our education system holds and spark a problem-solving attitude.”

Sakshyam Bista
Outreach Head

Sakshyam Bista

“We make learning a fun process, turning challenges into interactive lessons.”

Gaurav Acharya
Programs Manager

Gaurav Acharya

“To bridge the gap between academic learning and real-world application.”

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Direct Communications

For school partnerships, sponsorships, or organizational alliances, reach out to our team.

Headquarters

Pulse Incubator Hub, Sanepa, Lalitpur, Nepal

Email

contact@navigonepal.org

Phone

+977-1-5542890