Blooming Buds Reading Competition 2007
Tempus International 2007 Writing Contest: National Scholarship Winners Honored
October, 2007
Kathamandu, Nepal - Eighteen young faces lit up today as the national winners of Tempus International’s writing competition were honored at a prestigious awards ceremony in Kathamandu. Tempus International, a Canadian NGO founded in 2003, facilitates the bi-annual writing competition for youth from 18 regions across Nepal. To address the low levels of literacy, and the lack of children’s literature in Nepal, the contest participants wrote short stories to be published into a Nepalese children’s book. A total of 13,000 individual student entries were submitted, far surpassing the 2005 competition, where 1,000 entries were received.
From these 13,000 stories, eighteen exceptional winners were selected, and they were invited to attend the award ceremony in Kathamandu with all of their travel expenses covered by Tempus International, who also awarded the students a small tuition scholarship to support their continued pursuit of education. In a final testament to their achievement, the student’s combined works will be published into a children’s book, which will help grow the children’s literature sections in the libraries and schools across Nepal with over 2,000 copies being distributed to the rural regions.
Of the 18 national winners, nine females and nine males were chosen. The participants were grouped into three categories of higher secondary, secondary and lower secondary, with three female and three male winners from each group.
Tempus International is proud to announce the following winners of the 2007 competition:
Lower Secondary
Yogesh Chaudhary – Bageshwori HSS, Bardyiya
Mahesh Pathak – Prajwal Sikshya LSS, Makwanpur
Milan Adhikary – Sunrise HSS, Sarlahi
Ranjana Poudel - Jalpa Devi HSS, Dhankutta
Puja Karki – Prabhat Eng. Boarding School
Asmita Kafle
Secondary
Santosh Khanal – Daisy High School, Chitwan
Shree Krishna Nepali – Jana Bikash HS, Lalitpur
Suman Pokhrel – Bhagwati HS, Morang
Binaya Basnet – Namuna Secondary School, Udayapur
Pravita Khaling – Udaypur English School, Udaypur
Jeena Shahi – Ever Green English School, Udaypur
Higher Secondary
Chuda Bdr Bishwakarma – Cha Ja HSS, Sarlahi
Ram Krishna Dhakal – Dullhav HSS, Gorkha
Shree Krishna Thapa – Kamala HSS, Sindhuli
Yojana Sharma – Mallika HSS, Baglung
Bijaya Paneru – Pabitra HSS, Doti
Manita Garbuja – Newest HSS, Mygdi
Congratulations to all winners! Special thanks to Tempus International’s country director in Nepal, Kushum Maharjan for all of her efforts, and to the NGO READ for assisting with this important literacy initiative.
About Tempus International
Tempus International is an award-winning Canadian-based charity that works to promote sustainable development by organizing literacy and education projects that provide opportunities for underprivileged youth to get ahead in life. They are a volunteer based organization, and their bi-annual writing competition in Nepal is now known as “The Mighty Pen”. To make a contribution to support Tempus’s initiatives, please click here.
