Ms. Kabita Shrestha
Acting Executive Director
She joined READ Nepal as Head of Admin and Finance from August 2020. She is a Chartered Accountant with extensive experience of 12 years in statutory/internal audit, financial advisory services and various special assignments like formulation of financial & monitoring policies, risk assessment and evaluation of internal control systems, due diligence for various sectors INGO, NGOs, Insurance Companies and Bank and Financial Institutions, Public & Private Companies in Nepal and India.
She holds a Masters’ Degree in Economics from Tribhuwan University in Nepal.
Mr. Chinkaji Shrestha
Deputy Director
Chin Kaji is READ’s longest serving employee and is currently the Deputy Director! He has been worked various roles with READ Nepal, and most recently served as Head of Field Operation since January 2017. He served as Program Officer from January 1, 2015, as the Field Officer from January 2009 until the end of December 2014, as Field Coordinator from 2004 to 2008, as an Assistant Field Coordinator from 2002 to 2004 and as volunteer for more than four years since 1998. Since then, he has been working with rural communities advocating the READ model and finding suitable communities for constructing READ libraries. He is responsible for mobilizing communities; providing support to the Library Management Committees (LMC) throughout the entire lifecycle of program implementation and setting up of the READ center. He is also responsible for operations of READ Nepal, training the local communities on Library Science Management, facilitating on resolving if conflict arises at community level, carrying out READ programs at field level and support on hosting donors during READ Nepal visit.
