Education Campaign by Akkal Tamang
In 2012, Tamang started another campaign in the education sector as "Education for All" . Under this campaign, hundred of children who were deprived of formal education have got an education so far . Currently, a total of 128 students of different level are getting a scholarship to study at a different level under this campaign . Now, the government has also made school level education compulsory with the policy of taking guardianship  from well -off people for the education of children from poor families . Tamang has also helped to establish libraries for the schools where children of poor families use to study . Besides, Tamang who is also the chairperson of the Nepal chapter of the International volunteer association is also conducting free health camps regularly in remote villages of Nepal inviting international health volunteers to the country . Currently, under the self-employment campaign . Tamang is providing skill development training free of cost to unemployed poor women and youths and assisting them to run their business . Currently, Tamang's organization is providing skill training related to garment, soap production and bakery . Recognizing Tamang's  dedication towards social works, Budhanilakantha Municipality Kathmandu is providing land to establish and run "Women Entrepreneurship and Employment Centre".  Moreover, as a campaign to reduce poverty . Tamang is currently running a developmental store through a cooperative in new model which provider buyers from the 50 per cent profit of the business . He opined that one of the major challenges to reduce the poverty of poor families was their compulsion to spend a large part of the income for daily consumption due to the large size of the family . Therefore, the model of making poor families the owner of the business from their essential spending can be an effective tool to reduce poverty , be added .
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So far, more than 1000 families have been a member of store and the cooperatives is planning to expend its business in new locations. Akkal has been able to do these all social works in line with his trekking and mart business . Recently, he has purchased a private school in which he had given a scholarship to 128 needy students from poor families . Tamang has also the support of his good friends from abroad mostly from South Korea to manage the finance and logistics required for his social works . Beyond the self-satisfaction he receives by serving people in dire need, Akkal has received various awards and felicitation from national and international level for his social works .He has been conferred by the decoration "Samaj Sewa Ratna" from the government on the occasion of Constitution Day . He has also been awarded from the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Health and population and Ministry of Forest and Environment for his social works and campaign . Besides, Tamang has been honored by various international awards including the volunteer of the year Award from South Korea and the Humanitarian Award from America .  

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