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Social Innovation Sprint at Kathmandu Model College (KMC) 🚀

SECONDBENCH was pleased to present the Social Innovation Sprint to the senior leadership team of KMC this afternoon ☘️

The Sprint is based on our Project SHIFT Social Innovation Leadership Program, providing a structured approach to social innovation by empowering students with critical thinking, problem-solving, and design thinking skills.

We were privileged to engage with key leaders of KMC: Mr Prince Karna (Head of EMIS & IT), Mr Dhurba Prasad Timalsina (Head of IQAC), and Ms Shailaja Kasaju (Innovation Manager).

The session concluded with a shared commitment between KMC and SECONDBENCH to move forward with an ex*****on plan, commencing early next week.

A promising milestone in progressing the Social Innovation Sprint with KMC 🚀

Wishing you a joyous 2083. Happy New Year to the Nepali community and the diaspora across the globe!

We've an opportunity for you to join our team as a Junior Data Architect and work in an exciting streaming data service project.

Congrats and all the very best ahead!

Project SHIFT Successfully Concludes in Banepa, Nepal 🎉

After three inspiring days of learning, collaboration, and innovation, the Project SHIFT Social Innovation Leadership Bootcamp successfully concluded on 11 March 2026 with a Student Showcase and Awards Ceremony.

Our young changemakers from four participating schools presented thoughtful solutions to real community challenges, demonstrating creativity, teamwork, and confidence.

We are incredibly proud of our young changemakers and grateful to everyone who supported this initiative.

The future looks bright. ✨

Empowering the Next Generation: Grade 8-9 Girls Kick Off Project SHIFT in Nepal🇳🇵
Today, on International Women’s Day, we are thrilled to announce the official kick-off of Project SHIFT! 🚀

🌈Our Social Innovation Leadership Bootcamp has officially launched in Banepa, bringing together 12 exceptional students selected from 4 local schools through a rigorous written and interview process.

[Highlights from Day 1]:
🎈Official Inauguration: We were honoured to have the Mayor of Banepa Municipality join us to formally open the program and inspire our young innovators.

🌎Global Support: A major highlight was a special message of support from the Deputy Vice President (International) of CQUniversity, Australia. This message provided incredible motivation not only to the students but to the entire community, schools, and local leadership.

💡Over the next four days, these students will dive deep into social innovation, developing projects that address real-world challenges. These bright minds prepare for the Public Showcase and Awards Ceremony on 11 March 2026.

I am glad to be a member of Australian delegates in the recent Australian International Development Mission to Asian Development Bank (ADB) held at the ADB headquarters in Manila. My one-on-one meetings with several ADB executives and private sector in the Philippines gave myself and huge motivation and strategic directions to work on innovation projects that can help local governments and development agencies in the region. Thanks to the Australian government for giving me this awesome opportunity to participate the mission.

proud to associate with BBC Football Club of Banepa, Nepal. sponsored jerseys for the BBC Players - for the entire year in 2019. We're glad to to notice that this young club is becoming a known entity among the soccer fans in Nepal.

I'm glad to see our interns Rajum and Pooja presenting their progresses with the project team at client's premise this afternoon. It is so good to observe Rajum and Pooja developing skills in gathering, analysing, validating and documenting client's business requirements.

I'm sure they are experiencing the difference between studying in university classroom and working with clients in real environment. In today's meeting they must have learned how conflicts, biases and difference of opinions among the project stakeholders arise, and how tough it is to normalize such issues. I'm impressed their willingness to learn, act and produce desired milestones on time.