TFN Walkathon

TFN Walkathon is a charity event organized to raise awareness of education inequity in Nepal and resources required to support the work of Teach For Nepal. On Saturday, 20 December 2014, 1000 college students committed to raise Rs. 1,000 each will walk 5 Kilometers. The event will culminate in a closing ceremony which will feature musical performance from participating students and folk instrumental band KUTUMBA. Celebrities and leaders from different sectors will also speak at the event.

Students attending public schools come from low income families and socially marginalized communities. In rural Nepal, children in Teach For Nepal Fellows come to school on foot walking long distances. Some of our students walk as much as 3 hours one way, just to get to a school.

TFN Walkathon is thus a solidarity walk to commit ourselves that no children regardless of socio-economic status will be left behind. Through Walkathon, we symbolically, express commitment that we are committed to walk together with the children to ensure that each and every single one of them have same opportunity and choices that children who go to private schools in Nepal have.