20 students from a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses and 5 staff from our department will be going in a few weeks to Nepal to support orphan children in Kathmandu Valley. 

Apart from the food and the stationery that they are hoping to take with them, the staff and students from Hallam will try to engage them in an educational / interactive game to learn English through coding, VR, AR, photogrammetry and documenting their stories on camera. 

Lucas Jedrzejak who is one of the members of staff going on this trip, recently connected with the national radio in Kathmandu FM and is hoping to link us live with BBC Sheffield through Sile Sibanda, either while we are in Himalya’s Tibetan refugee camp or back with Kathmandu’s mayor and his TEDeX speaker deputy back in the city.

There are many amazing stories coming out including teaching Nepalese how to play cricket and lower caste women learning from our filmmaker students to produce stories.

All part of British Council WOW initiative https://www.britishcouncil.org.np/programmes/arts/wow-2022#:~:text=The%20WOW%20festival%20takes%20place,virtually%20in%202020%20and%202021.

One of our contributors is our SHU alumni Manish Harijan, who comes from lower caste in Nepal, but he graduated from Fine Art in SHU. He has an exhibition currently at Arts Space at 5pm with some Sheffield United football celebrities in presence.

Arts Space Gallery next to Site on Paternoster Row.  https://artspace.org.uk/our-artists-makers/manish-harijan/