Lalitpur, Nepal
Welcome to Gan Research and Learning Center
Welcome to Gan Research and Learning Center
Lalitpur, Nepal
GAN Research and Learning Resource Centre is an innovative not for profit social enterprise - A
sister entity of #Global Action Nepal (GAN).
The Centre was established at a challenging time in Nepal when about a third of the national
population was affected by the 2015 earthquakes and beginning of the era of sustainable
development goals as outlined by the United Nations.
However, initially, it has started its journey by engaging itself in disaster relief response
particularly in rural local communities; it then broadened its arena and redefined itself as a
resourceful sustainable mechanism as a learning laboratory and resource hub for all
imagining future scenarios.
The centre focus on generating resources for marginalized community, Intergenerational
learning, promotes indigenous knowledge, work for skills and innovative technologies, the
building of global citizens and valuing lifelong and life wide learning for the 21st century.
The Centre has established a Gan learning Centre in Chunikhel lalitpur to develop a resource
centre and generate fund for sustaining itself and its sister entity Global Action Nepal to
educate, develop skills of marginalized children youth and adults. The centre has consist of :
Learning Laboratory Centre
Community-based Learning hub
The Centre aims to be a leading organization for human and material resource development particularly in education, health and disaster relief response establishing a laboratory.
In meeting this aim, the Centre strives to be a focus for the development of effective models and relevant demonstration examples readily available to participants.
A learning resource Laboratory is to bring global learning resources together for children and youth in collaboration with # Eltham Rotary Club Australia, #Aussie Action Abroad, #Global Action Nepal and other collaborative partners.
It is not only within the compound of Learning Centre but utilizing Community-based Learning hub as well. The Centre acts as a facilitating umbrella organization for a number of community learning hubs which have set up in rural settings for the facilitation of adult and lifelong learning education. It also has linked with community-based outreach skills learning hub like wood carving ( Bungmati ), Pottery ( Bhaktapur) agriculture, livestock and making bricks for skills-based learning for national and international visitors