About Us
Since 2005, Tukee Nepal Society has been providing Education, Healthcare, and Social Services to the general local communities in Nepal, currently focusing on the remote district of Dhading. Our main mission is to support Education and empower all the members of farming families so that they can enjoy better living conditions and a stronger foundation for their future in all aspects of life.
All members of the local families, including women and children, are benefited by our programs. We strongly believe that it is essential to improve women’s participation in economic activity to create more progressive social conditions in Nepal. Hence, our program includes women empowerment and education activities.
We are the proud recipient of the prestigious Surya Nepal Awards 2011 for our continued contribution to health, sanitation, electricity, and education to uplift the living conditions of the people in Jyamrung village.
We are expanding areas of our current operations mainly focusing on Education and Health-related projects to more localities of Nepal. We also plan to further stabilize the local economy by providing new ways of earning a livable income with the establishment of new agro-tourism programs.
We have a strong belief that these programs will revitalize the financial potentials for local people, and also provide financial investment opportunities to those interested in helping others while also being able to make a profit for themselves.
Our activities are carried out under the rules and regulations of the Nepal Government’s Law. Below are some of our primary activities:
- Construction of school buildings for lower, lower secondary, and secondary level education and establishment of the library in school premises.
- Conducting training programs for teachers to meet the latest teaching methods.
- Scholarship programs for the continued education of children and adults in rural areas who cannot continue their higher education due to poverty and other social factors.
- Conducting programs for improvements in female education and adult education.
- Conducting programs for raising awareness among the community about HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases.
- Establishment of Farmers’ School for the development of modern agricultural systems over the traditional system.
- Raising awareness for the construction of roads in rural areas.
- Micro-Finance projects for women empowerment and raising entrepreneurial awareness amongst locals.
- Operate health posts and health-related camps in remote areas for easy access to basic health needs.
- Several training programs for locals, teachers, health workers, and volunteers to update and improve skills.
- Other several projects and activities to achieve our goals.
Biography of our Founder and how Tukee Nepal started
Mr. Ram Sapkota is the founder of Tukee Nepal. Being born in Jyamrung, which is a remote village in the midwest part of Nepal, he belonged to a family of farmers. He saw poverty and the impact of poverty on children, adults, and any grown person very closely as he himself belonged to a poor family. Education was not easily accessible due to remoteness and economic condition, but that did not stop Ram to pursue higher education.
He had seen how due to lack of education. Ram with the motive to bring change in society, tried pursuing the villagers to invest their time in something productive. He supported local women, and helped them raise their voice against the injustice they were facing. This was the first step to stand for someone in need and eventually, this led him to follow the path of humanitarian activities.
Eventually, he became a trekking guide and while continuing private home-based education. After becoming a guide he wanted to give something back to society, especially to poor families in the village who were not able to send their children to school and were going through everything he had to go through during his childhood. With some portion of his earnings he started to support children to continue their education. Ram encouraged parents from his village to send children to school by paying education expenses and fees.
As a trekking guide Ram naturally met a lot of foreigners. He informed many of them about his ongoing projects, and received help as well. Finally in 2005 he started Tukee Nepal Samaj.
Once while working as a guide he met a kind couple and Journalist from Sweden (Ewa Söderberg, Dan Söderberg and Mikael Person). He explained to them about his projects for upliftment of quality of life of villagers, so they were eager to visit his village. After they visited the village and experienced the condition of locality where children had to study on the open ground because of the old and damaged school building, they decided to support Ram and his initiatives. They were very impressed with his activities and started their own supporting organization back in Sweden.
The village Tukee Nepal is working on was poorly equipped in terms of infrastructure, sanitary, school and electricity. With Ram’s initiation and support from well wishers the conditions of the village are improved. Instead of only helping children to go to school Ram started village development projects like building toilets and a health center that was affordable to everyone.
He started community treks with help of which he would find new tourist destinations off the beaten path so that both tourists and locals would benefit from incoming tourists. The tourists could explore new and beautiful destinations while the locals were provided the opportunity to earn and get involved in tourism-related businesses promoting local products, which eventually results in an increase in quality of life.