For many in Nepal, a good education remains an unattainable luxury. And despite a rapid expansion of education facilities in recent decades, adult literacy is still less than 50 per cent. Nepal has over seven million students enrolled in primary and secondary school education, but only one in four children reach the 10th grade.
Despite spending 17 per cent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) on education, government school facilities in Nepal are poor and dropout numbers are high, especially among girls.