Eejot is a not for profit organization for education run solely by volunteers and through help of potential volunteers like you. Our mission is to improve and facilitate education in remote villages of Nepal. It's tax exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of Internal Revenue Code. Here are some of our goals:

• Periodic interaction sessions, technological demonstrations to help motivate students towards studies
• Open both digital and traditional libraries with help of other NGOs and INGOs
• Provide books and educational materials to schools
• Annual contests to bring competitive spirits in children.

Besides financial help, we are always looking for volunteers as well as educational materials such as old laptops, school supplies and educational toys. If you are interested, please see the  contact us page here. The latest discussion threads are at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=281009460224&v=app_2373072738.

Our recent events have all been related to computer education and awarenes in one form or another which spanned from a small village Sisautiya in Sarlahi district of Nepal to Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal.  At Sisautiya we held three computer demonstration sessions to students ranging from first graders to high school students.  When it came to computers, both first graders and high school students fell in same category; they had heard about it but not seen one in real life. This is not surprising since many of villages in vicinity of Sisautiya did not have electricity till last year. These demonstration sessions gave the participating students a chance to see how computers work and also  how they can use it. Some of them typed their names and some even drew funny pictures. They were really excited about the event and hoped for more such opportunities.

We held the last of three demonstration sessions during early evening and suddenly there was a power cut. Students had kerosene lamps as back up and it was  an interesting contrast: they were watching a demo of Thinkpad while kerosene lamp was source of light. We were fortunate that laptop battery did not die. ;-)