13/11/2025
🌍✨ Reimagining Education in Rural Nepal: Meet the Explorer Program
We’re so excited to share a big milestone! 🎉
Youthive Nepal and Young Change Agents recently ran the Explorer Program as a pilot at Shree Sisneri Secondary School, Lalitpur, introducing entrepreneurial and problem-solving education to students who are often left out of innovation and opportunities.
So… what is the Explorer Program? 💡
It’s an entrepreneurial learning journey where students:
✅ Identify real problems in their community
✅ Turn those problems into social enterprise ideas
✅ Learn skills they can use for life – not just for exams
We wanted to bring this program to Nepal because so many young people still experience rote learning and have limited exposure to creativity, innovation and 21st-century skills. Explorer is our way of showing that classrooms can also be hubs of innovation, where students see themselves as problem-solvers and change-makers. 🙌
With the support of teachers and mentors, students learned to:
👉 Use design thinking to understand real problems around them
👉 Work in teams to design social enterprise solutions
👉 Pitch their ideas and receive feedback from mentors
📊 What happened in just one term?
Average capability scores across key skills increased from 3.82 to 4.21 / 5
These skills included:
Problem-solving & creativity
Communication & pitching
Teamwork & collaboration
Project planning & budgeting
Career awareness & entrepreneurial mindset
✨ Students who agreed that entrepreneurial skills are important jumped from 25% to 100%
✨ Almost all students now feel confident communicating their ideas, working in teams, and planning projects
💬 Many students told us they now look at problems differently — not as complaints, but as challenges they can actually solve.
The pre and post surveys tell a powerful story about the future of entrepreneurial education in Nepal:
🌱 Even in a rural public school, students quickly embraced the idea that they can be social and environmental entrepreneurs.
🌱 With the right tools and guidance, their confidence, skills and dreams for the future grew in just one term.
🌱 This shows a huge untapped potential for entrepreneurial education to change how young people in Nepal learn, think and lead.
What makes us happiest is this mindset shift 🧠❤️
Students no longer see themselves as passive learners. They see themselves as young change agents with the power to shape their own futures and support their communities.
And this is just the beginning. 🚀
We’re now planning to expand the Explorer Program to more schools and regions in Nepal and would love to collaborate with people and organisations who believe in transformative, entrepreneurial education for all young people.
🙏 Special thanks to:
💛 Young Change Agents – for trusting us with their powerful curriculum and mentorship.
💛 Shree Sisneri Secondary School – for opening their doors to this program and believing in the potential of their students.
If you’re interested in bringing this program to your school or community, or want to support youth-led innovation in Nepal, send us a message or comment below. 👇
👉 Let’s connect and explore what’s possible together.
