By Prateek Raj Neupane (Lab Master – DoLAB) I have a 3-year-old daughter and I like to observe what she does intently. In my process of observation, I assume that what a child does is a natural behavior for human beings and what s/he needs to be taught is possibly acquired. For example, my daughter…
By Shanta Milan Dewan (MBA Student, Participant – Concept Development for Impact 2018, Coach – Do Shop for Rotract District Nepal) This is part 2 of a two-part reflection blog written by Shanta Milan. Read part-1 here. Day 2: I arrived at 8:45 and everyone was already in the class, to no one’s surprise (If…
By Shanta Milan Dewan (MBA Student, Participant – Concept Development for Impact 2018, Coach – Do Shop for Rotract District Nepal) This is part 1 of a two-part reflection blog written by Shanta Milan. Read part-2 here. A typical day for a student of Kings College, rushing and running towards the class to get on…
By Saurav Karki, MBA Student Participant, BUCSBIN Concept Development for Impact 2019 Design thinking is an iterative process in which we seek to understand the people’s empathy, difficulties, challenges, and redefine problems in an effort to identify alternative solutions and strategies that is beyond our initial level of understanding. Design thinking attempts to give a…
By Raunak Chaudhari (MBA Alumni; Coach – DoLAB) Do you learn something by reading something or listening to someone talk or even watching someone work? Or do you learn when you take that and put that in the context of what you do? Prateek dai (Lab Master, Do Lab) and I had a quick conversation…
by Anupam Bajracharya “Nirajan! Where is your English homework?” “I haven’t done sir!” “Why?” “I don’t have my English book.” Likewise, Suman from grade 1 was not doing classwork because he didn’t even have pencils to do his classwork. Such lack of basic facilities to learn is the right of a student, aren’t they? We…
by Sushobhan Chimoriya (Student – BBA) Everyone can blame the government all they want, deservedly so. But one should never forget that individual efforts do count and do, in fact, add up. One way, an individual can make the difference that counts is by harvesting rainwater to cope up with groundwater decline in this concrete monstrosity…
King’s College, the night outs in Thamel, the cultural immersions at Pashupatinath and Bhakapur Durbar square, as well as the breath-taking snow peaks in Pokhara. I am immensely grateful for the warm hospitality of my Ne
I applied for the internship at King’s College because I am very interested in economic development, microfinance and social entrepreneurship. My main goal for the internship was to build practical skills, in particular to apply my data analytical skills to real-life projects. I also wanted to learn more about microfinance because after reading a lot about it I wanted to see how MFIs actually operate in practice.
by Sujan Aryal (Student – BBA) Life is not always rainbows and butterflies. They are waves that can go high to low and low to high anytime. Living in the city we are often provided with what we need, we are able to do whatever we want whenever we want with our lives. We are…