The Terai region of southern Nepal has some of the country’s highest rates of child marriage and female illiteracy. Many girls carry heavy responsibilities at home, which can make it hard to stay in school, let alone join an after-school activity.

Girl Reports meets girls where they are. In after-school journalism clubs at their own schools, girls write, edit, and publish their own community news magazine, and we pay them for their work, so their families see the value of their education in a concrete way. Our work is led by local staff and grounded in partnership with the Lumbini Social Service Foundation, a community-founded nonprofit focused on children, women, and the environment, and with four schools in the Rupandehi district: Karuna Girls School, Sun Saraswati English Boarding School, Evergreen Pacific English Boarding School, and Metta Gurukul School.