Inspiring Through Stories:Exploring Career Paths

Panel Discussion taking place
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On November 30, 2019, Canopy Nepal organized Understanding Education, a panel discussion, Inspiring Through Stories: Exploring Career Paths at King’s College, Babarmahal, Kathmandu intending to provide insights to the scholars on the career paths for the future. Inspiring through Stories, a mini version of Understanding Education that initiated with a primary motive to inspire youths towards working hard for a better future through the stories presented by the successful people in a particular field. 

This panel discussion took place with four panelists which included, Mr. Aavash Mishra, a Medical Student at Nepal Army Institute of Health Sciences and the Community Service Director from Rotaract Club of Dillibazar; Ms. Bibhuti Neupane, CEO at Naagi ko Honey; Mr. Hemanta Sapkota, ECA Coordinator at Babylon National School and a Gold Medalist in Humanities and Social Sciences related studies at Tribhuvan University and Ms. Nasala Chitrakar, Lecturer at Thames International College. In this session, the panelists discussed the career opportunities in Nepal and also explored the potentials for better selections of career paths.

Giving their insights on mapping effective career choices and opportunities for our scholars, Ms. Nasala Chitrakar, stated how consistency and persistence towards fulfilling one’s interest in a certain sector can lead to success in their sectors, and emphasized the audience to look for the profession that gives one happiness. Adding on to this, Mr. Hemanta Sapkota, emphasized on the importance of one’s passion for shaping one’s career and highlighted on taking their career paths towards success in a more dedicated manner. Supporting this idea, Ms. Bibhuti Neupane indicated the opportunities that exist in the challenges in a society that is the basis for becoming an entrepreneur. Further, in terms of career choice, Aavash Mishra pointed out the importance of choosing a career based on the capacities and talent existent in oneself while choosing a career.  The audience comprised up of students becoming a part of different programs of various Canopy Nepal, individuals passionate about education and representatives from different partner schools.

Canopy Nepal team with the panelists after the discussion
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ABOUT CANOPY NEPAL

Canopy Nepal is a team of visionary youths working in the field of education, skill and leadership development, diversity and inclusion. Canopy Nepal works in collaboration with like-minded individuals and organizations to achieve the targets of empowering the organizations’ beneficiaries with skills they need to bring about positive change in the community. Canopy Nepal aims at creating an environment where individuals have a choice to equip themselves with skills and abilities of lifetime importance. The organization intends to promote intercultural understanding among diverse groups by means of various programs.

[ AUDIO ] LGBT+ & Allies Supporters New Year House Party by Kitty K - Interview

Nepal has leap forward on LGBTI + ( Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex) with time and there is much progress to be done. The move also has happened since a decade long from 2007 decriminalization to a lesbian couple living together opening for living together relationship to all gender. Despite all of that it took several years for Same Sex Marriage Committee to draft the Same Sex Marriage Report which was submitted to the Council of Ministers of the Government of Nepal on 9 February 2015. But, nothing has yet been enacted and its on due and may take more time as well. Whereas, Nepal has made a remarkable journey possibly the only country to have all three - inclusion of SOGIE ( Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity) on three articles of the Constitution of Nepal ( after South Africa and Ecuador) and Others addition under gender category ( that would be mostly for Trans, Intersex,Gender non-conforming and others ) on the Citizenship and Passport ( after Australia and possibly New Zealand). With several allies and supporters advocating and from songs & movies on Lesbian and Gay leads as well as the wave of how things have revolved around is a great impression and an encouragement to motivation to many. 

Now, let's get back to the point the major intention of the blog post

Recently, early 20s yrs old from across Nepal came together to organize possibly Nepal's 1st LGBT+ & Allies Supporters New Year House Party. The house party will have drag show, drag lip sync battle, live music, runway, dance party and many more for the audience to engage. The organizers have left no stone unturned to make the best out of each moment one enters the house party venue that is Dolakha House on 31st December on the New Years eve day from 8pm onward itself. The program will go as long as the midnight and possibly extend with people joining. Each one entering will be involved in something or other and the organizing team came with an interesting idea for people joining to interact among themselves. I would put this as speed dating or speed meet up but again you won't know until you really come and attend the house party itself.  

So, couple of days back we took the opportunity to interview Himalaya Roadies Season 1 contestant and Kitty K Organizer - Prasot KC

While, 

Listen to the interview of entire team here -






To join you can fill the following google form or Direct Message on @Kittyk0 instagram account 

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[AUDIO] Exclusive Interview with Ashim Pandey the person behind Nepal's 1st Electric Motorcycle - Yatri Motorcycle

Being fascinated with two wheelers & four wheelers at a very young age around his 6th standard Ashim Pandey, Founder and the person behind Yatri Motorcycles finally with a team of young enthusiastic engineers designed Nepal's 1st Electric Motorcycle/ Motorbike - Yatri.  

Ashim went for his undergraduate and postgraduate in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands and worked with Forze Hydrogen Electric Racing, aQysta, Formula Student Team Delft and Donkervoort. Professionally working for Donkervoort where he was involved in manufacturing hypercars,  Ashim back when he was 27 yrs old ( 2016) realized that it can be done back in Nepal with a good team and at the age of 30 yrs old (2019 ) that is what made his zeal turn into reality with Yatri Motorcycles. 

Listen to the Interview till the end as we unreveal more that you haven't heard

Envisioning to reinvent urban mobility, Ashim and team surveyed across Nepal and what they found was large audience where cautious about air pollution in context to urban mobility and congestion being the second among many others. The team was very sure to design and engineer a electric motorcycle that is not slow, ugly and doesn't corners to make a bold statement and challenge the status quo of Nepali product design. What they dreamt of was a elegant design that not just contributes to environment but also also ride with pride. 

Ashim and the Yatri team were sure that they won't compromise with their product design for a electric motorcycle. Speed comes at the first when one really looks into owning a motorcycle and that is also one of the reasons behind Yatri, with power flow of 30 kW powerful motor that delivers 40hp of 6kWh capacious battery that delivers 230 km in just one charge with a powerful on-board charger that charges the bike under 2 hrs. Isn't that really fast and most interestingly the team is working to charge your bike in just 20 minutes - " that's just like taking a tea or coffee break " as Ashim says Yatri being one of the few motorcycles in the whole world to do so. 

With all of that, the Yatri motorcycle reimagines the future of mobility with it's 7 inch full high definition display screen interface connected to your smartphone from Yatri Hub App ( Playstore | ioS) with real time data as  well with insights on how much fuel you saved out of your current ride and contributed on ecological footprint riding a electric motor cycle with pride. Not just that, the interface has navigation, data's related to all components of your bike and also a 24 hour service from Yatri team whenever required for servicing appointments, get reminders and even a pick up service.

Yatri Motorcycles will also share an open house opportunity for all the bike enthusiasts and well wisher to know their Yatri better, being held on March 2020. You can join, interact, know the team better and your Yatri motorcycle better as well as get a chance for a test ride of your own. 

Mohammad Ishtiyaq Rayi,Minister for Urban Development for the Government of Nepal
congratulates and shares best wishes to Yatri Motorcycles team

Minister for Urban Development, Mohammad Ishtiyaq Rayi during the launch of Yatri motorcycles said - 

" Before i joined politics i was also engaged in introducing the electric vehicles to Nepal's market and i see high probability for Yatri Motorcycles as an opportunity for urban mobility and share my best wishes to the team " 

Yatri Motorcycles as with their start will only have 50 Yatri Motorcycles. I would personally say by the time i was interviewing Ashim, the first Yatri Motorcycle was already taken by Nepal's known face Entrepreneur and a bike Enthusiast Saurabh Jyoti  

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Watch the Yatri Motocycles Video here

Make sure you listen to the entire interview 
that we took as we unreveal something that you haven't heard yet 

And YES! 

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So far Yatri Motorcycle had been only and only tested and ride by Yatri team

 and well known Youtuber & Vlogger Sisan Baniya was one of the first people other than Yatri team to ride Yatri Motorcycles.

" I felt so privileged, emotional and connected while i rode Yatri Motorcycle knowing behind the hard work on designing the electric motor bike. 

Yatri is going to take Nepal known all around the world with this masterpiece.

I invite you all to be pride of this and talk about it everywhere. 
Talk about Yatri Motorcycle " - Sisan Baniya, Youtuber & Vlogger

 Here's his experience on the video

Also find the video by Nepal Drives before the launch 

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