To mark the auspicious day of NJSI on 19th May, 
2022, NJSI celebrated by distributing 30 summer blankets to the visually impaired ones from Bright Star Society. NJSI was establish in 2015, May 19th after the massive earthquake in Nepal. It was established by Nepal Jesuit Society (NJS). We celebrated our 7 years of working in relief, recovery and rehabilitation sectors.
A combined school Eco club meet and a Personality development camp was held at Kavre Regional Centre. The program was for three days from 5th to 7th April, 2022 And 35 children from nearly 10 schools participated in the program.
The Eco-meet was focusing on the dangers of the use of pesticide in Agriculture. The students were given inputs by Mr. MC Pereira, the agriculturists on our team led the sessions. The Personality Development program was initiated by Fr. Roy giving the session of the self-discovery and identity establishment with exercises on Critical thinking. Fr. Mathew gave training on time management and professional student behavior.
The students they had discussions and chart preparation based on the theme of Pesticide use and its dangers in Agriculture. On the final day the participants presented their findings in chart form to about 100 students came from the nearby schools as audience. The final day, the local government representatives and the director of the agricultural department Mr. Ishowr was present and gave inputs to the student participants. The students were accompanied by the teachers.
Six volunteers from St. Xaviers College came to help the students and did a lot of help inorganizing and conducting the various items of the program.
After signing the MoU between the Nepal Jesuit Region and the International Federation of Fe y Alegria in November 2022, this was the first invitation to NJSI to participate as a developing member of the Federation of FeyA. Even though We were invited by Entreculturas to participate in two world conference of FeyA at Madrid in the preceding years, this was the first time NJSI took part in the assembly held in Columbia for the board of directors and the and the national directors. Fr. Roy Sebatin, SJ as the National director and Fr. Agustus Ekka, SJ as the delegate had the privilege to participate in the Assembly from March 21st to 24th, 2022.
This was a unique experience for us to know the people involved in the Education Improvement program in Latin America, Africa, East Asia and Europe. There were many Latin American countries with similar socio-Political situation like that of Nepal. Fe y A with the 50 years of the experience has developed remarkable strategy and modules to work in collaboration with the local government and bring quality education the rural and urban population that are poor and marginalized.
We also had the opportunity to visit many Fe y A schools in Columbia, well-furnished with educational infrastructure and curriculum. The remarkable even of the Celebration of the 50th anniversary of Fe y A Columbia was colored by the Eucharist and the felicitation. It was a great joy and heart warming to see the Nepali Flag was brought in with other countriesdd and placed in the hall for the first time.
After two years of lockdown situation, we finally got two guests from abroad. Pillar Lopez Dafonte, Coordinator of South Asian Desk of Xavier Network, and Fr. Carlos Fritzen,SJ, Coordinate General of International Federation of Fe Y Alegria, arrived in Nepal on 16th Nov. The purpose of Pilar’s visit was combined with monitoring and initiating the process of evaluation and final reporting procedures of the Xavier Network funded earthquake relief projects. Fr. Carlos came to experience the context and ground been prepared for initiation of Fe y Alegria Nepal. NJSI was privileged to welcome them at this time and made use of their honorable and valuable presence to Inaugurate the Kavre Regional Center and to Initiate Fe y Alegria Nepal, by officially signing the MoU with the International Federation of Fe y Alegria.
The much awaited moment came to realization on 20 Nov 2021, when Nepal Region Superior, Fr. Amrit Rai and Fr. Carlos Frintzen, the international coordinator fo Fe y Alegria officially signed an MOU declaring the beginning of the process of initiating Fe y Alegria Nepal. It was also the occasion of the inauguration of the Kavre Regional Centre and multipurpose training centre in Panchkal.
With the initiation of Fe y Alegria Nepal, NJSI takes the leadership in bringing Fe y Alegria to South Asia for the first time in a formal way. The similarities of Nepal with Latin American countries especially places like Peru, gives added affinity and collaborative possibilities of Fe y Alegria with Nepal and others. Fr. Roy Sebastian, along with Fr. Dani Villanueva, Cristin Fernandes, Miguel Santiuste, Pilar Lopez, Pablo Fune and many others from Entrecultaras along with NJSI staff and Nepal Jesuits had worked towards this achievement.
As Nepal being a Hindu country the modality of working of Fe y Alegria will be quite different from the Latin American Situation. NJSI had already launched the Rural Education Improvement Nepal Program as the forerunner of Fe y Alegria. The program is intended to improve the education in the rural government schools and we are well received by the local community. Moreover, the entry into the rural government schools, also opens the possibility of community and social development in those areas as well. NJSI is very much indebted to Entreculturas Spain for strong and steady accompaniment for this development of Fe Y Alegria Nepal.ç
Reaching the equipment for the Education Smart Hub to rural schools is always a tough job. Tila School and Shree Dev school in Oda village, Mahabai -2, in Kalikot district had three days of travel from Kathmandu including a couple of hours of on foot carrying everything on head to reach. 
The path was on the steep hills and a couple of land slides made it very dangerous to cross certain areas.
Kalikot is one of the least developed districts in Nepal towards the far western region. It has the population of about 136,000. The largest ethnic group is the Khas Chhetri which are 28.8% of the total population, The second largest group is Thakuri which is 25.1% of the total population. 17.7% are Kami, 17.1% Hill Brahmin, 5.1% Damai and 3.2% Sarki.[3]
“Reaching the Unreached,” the maxim of of NJSI, goes very much along with the maxim “Fe y Alegria starts where the Asphalt stops.” The Students and staff from Tila School Carrying the equipment
Fr. Roy Sebastian, SJ. , Mr. Kamal Shrestha, Mr. Ramhari Thpa Magar, Mr. Kailash Thapa, Mr. Arus Magar constituted the NJSI team which went to Kalikot District on 9th November 2021, for the first time to start the intervention of Rural Education Improvement Nepal Program. The schools were recommended by the newly established Jesuit team looking for starting the Karnali Jesuit Mission, an area not much explored till today by the the Catholic religious. It has been many years since the Nepal Jesuits wanted to start a mission in Karnali and Far western region of Nepal.
We were fortunate to be supported and to work in collaboration with Oda Foundation, a local organization running health care and village development. Mr. Karan Singh and his staff accompanied NJSI team to the village and did the necessary arrangement for the stay and fixing the smart hub. The students and the people are very excited about the new development in their village schools.