SSMK Bags Junior Challenge Award and 25000 euro at Italy

Youth program, Saathi Sanga Manka Kura Won the "Global Junior Challenge award 2007" promoted by Digital World foundation amid a program held at Rome, Italy on dated 5th of October 2008. The award includes a purse of 25000 euros. Six hundred projects from eighty countries competed in the competition. Italian president Giorgio Napolitano felicitated SSMK at the presidential Palace in Italy. '

Devendra lal Shrestha "Sushil" recieving the awardThe Global Junior Challenge is a global ward funded by the municipality of Rome and six major ICT companies in 2007. The awards aims to identify and reward the best practices related to the use of new technologies for the education and training of young people.

The grant award of 25000 euros will be use to open up multimedia Tele-centers in remote areas of Nepal. On behalf SSMK, Devendra lal Shrestha "Sushil" from SSMK participated in the competition.