Rajanwa, Nepal

Ground Break, January 2025

We’re excited to announce that our school in Rajanwa, Nepal has completed it’s groundbreak and will be providing vital education to 199 students (110 boys and 89 girls)! Community leaders and buildOn staff members will also be working together closely to increase the number of students, especially girls, enrolled in this school.  

This is our 26th school - over a quarter of our 100 schools goal.

Thank you.


About RAJANWA, NEPAL

More than 4 million people in Nepal are living below the poverty line of $1.90 a day, and more than 11 million people over the age of 15—40 percent of the total population—are illiterate. We work closely with buildOn and rural communities across Nepal to ensure they have access to quality classrooms and education.

Discrimination based on gender and the caste system have kept far too many children and adults in Nepal from ever attending school. Currently, more girls (13 percent) are out of school than boys (7.2 percent).

Nepal’s small villages and remote communities such as Rajanwa often lack access to quality school structures and classrooms, and a disproportionately large number of those living in poverty are women. The village of Rajanwa is a rural community of approximately 3,115 people located in the Banke region. Most community members are subsistence farmers who rear livestock and grow rice, wheat, and corn.


Hear from a local teacher and explore the old school.


the build gallery