Shreeram Lama
Sport: Wheelchair Basketball
Teams: Wheelchair Basketball Association, (W.S.A male)
Shreeram has been involved on wheelchair basketball since many years and he has always been associated with W.S.A., one of the oldest teams in the country. He deserves a lot of credit because with him, W.S.A. female team won the first two editions of the Turkish Airlines ENGAGE Empowering League. Shreeram has already completed his bachelor studies in literature and journalism, achieved a master degree in literature but if this were not enough, he is currently study law and he wants to become a lawyer. On the top of everything, Shreeram is also working part time as accountant/administrator in a local mountain bike academy. He shares "ENGAGE has played a vital role to promote disable people through different programs. It has been a great influence in many people, especially in us, the ENGAGE Sport Coaches". We love Shreeram's professionalism and commitment, with high degree of personal accountability and this matters a lot.
Ishan Dhaugoda
Sport: Wheelchair Basketball
Team: Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Center ( S.I.R.C Male Team)
Only 18 years old, Isham recently completed high school in Banepa in the Kavre District. Together with his buddy Srijan, Ishan has been doing an amazing work to bring his team to a new level and we saw big improvements in the second edition of the League. Despite his young age, Ishan has been always accountable and he embraced wheelchair basketball coaching enthusiastically. In addition to coach his team, Ishan recently started helping ENGAGE in carrying out a study on wheelchair basketball coaching and license system. The study will help bring to a new level our coaching program. Ishan is very passionate about ITC and he sees himself as a future programmer. We bet he will be really a great programmer and he will work very hard to ensure S.IR.C. Team will become more and more competitive.
Sajja Maharjan
Sport: Wheelchair Basketball
Teams: Jawalakhel Wheelchair Sport Club (J.W.S.C. female)
Sajja is one of the newest ESCs and she joined four months ago. She is not only one of the newest but also one of the youngest and she is really doing an awesome job with J.W.S.C. She proved herself very accountable and sensitive too and very committed. She coaches with his peers Avi and Diya and immediately she bonded with all the team members. Sajja recently completed her high school with a specialization on science. In a very short span of time, Sajja has become very passionate about disabilities and she is now preparing herself to pursue bachelor level studies in Health Education. Sajja also helped a lot ENGAGE during the awareness programs of the League and she showed leadership skills and a big commitment towards the cause. She shares about ENGAGE: "I am really thankful to ENGAGE. It has been giving a huge platform and I am learning new experiences thanks to coaching".
Avi Shrestha
Sport: Wheelchair Basketball
Team: Jawalakhel Wheelchair Sport Club (J.W.S.C. male Team)
Avi is also one of the youngest ESC and he recently completed his high school and he joined ENGAGE very recently but he already made the difference, contributing greatly to have the team reaching a new level. He also coach J.W.S.C male team in their victory in the Pokhara Tournment held in April 2017. With him and the colleague coaches Sajja and Diya, the team did also extremely well in the second edition of the League with the male team coming very close to be the champion while the female team won a very respectable 3rd place. Avi is currently doing an internship with ITC focused organization, working to create new solutions to raise the quality of education in Nepal. He shares "I absolutely love the game of basketball and I am driven to empower my society and help people in need. Since I am able to achieve doing these two things, I adore wheelchair basketball and my team".
Kabita Kingring Magar
Sport: Wheelchair Basketball
Team: Wheelchair Basketball Association, (W.S.A female Team)
Kabita is together with Avi and Sajja one of the newest ESCs. She is 21 years old. Kabita slowly grew a passion with wheelchair basketball and she started informally supporting Shreeram at W.S.A. All happened because one day Kabita saw a wheelchair basketball game being played at her college. Here she counts her story: "During the college days. I saw a game of wheelchair basketball which was being played by the person with disabilities with their full of hope, energy, confident and effort similarly, some of the wheelchair basketball player brother saw me playing on the same court. From that day onwards, I was encouraged to be involved with wheelchair basketball and I was asked to be a coach of WSA. I got a chance to know about the disability and disability sports in Nepal respectively. I was totally inspired and motivated and I got a new sense of hope. I tried my best to help and support them with a huge of respect".
Srijan Dhagoda
Sport: Wheelchair Basketball
Team: Spinal Injury Rehabilitation Center (S.I.R.C Male Team)
Srijan is working hard with his buddy Ishan to bring his team to the next level and this was, to some extents, accomplished during the second edition of the League where SIRC playing was much improved. Srijan is also very young, he is just 19 years old and lives near Banepa in the Kavre District. Srijan is very passionate about agriculture and he would like to get focused on that. He shares with us "Even when you have played the game of your life, it is the feeling of teamwork that you will remember. You will forget the plays, the shots and the scores but you will never your team mates....” Great words!
Sandesh Tamang
Sport: Wheelchair Basketball
Team: Jawalakhel Wheelchair Sport Club (J.W.S.C. male Team)
There is no doubt that Sandesh is a great guy, after all like all the ESCs. Sandesh recently completed his Bachelor Studies in Social Work and he is very passionate about service and volunteering. In addition to it, again something in common with all our ENGAGE Sport Coaches, he really loves basketball. He is not only a good player but also coaches several teams in different schools. So here we have someone who is, on the one hand, deeply passionate about basketball and sport in general and on the other hand very focused on his social work career and his professional future. Sandesh put a lot of passion with coaching J.W.S.C and we love his smart way of doing things.
Bijay Lama
Sport: Wheelchair Baasketball
Team: Bodhisattva in Action (B.I.A. male Team)
Bijay simply loves one thing: SPORTS. At only 22, Bijay is not only a basketball fanatic but he is also a martial art champion with a specialization in Tekwondo with a four dan. Bijay has a very busy life as basketball coach and he is currently coaching several teams, including the National Army Team. Always super punctual, precise and very professional, Bijay is doing a lot to improve B.I.A. team performance and level of the games. Bijay is simply an amazing, very generous and super professional guy. We saw this during one awareness program in the school where he studied, he was amazingly acknowledged for his big heart and super positive attitudes. Sports playing is everything to Bijay and we see a big future for him in this area.
Madan Bhandari
Sport: Wheelchair Basketball
Madan has been with ENGAGE for three years, making this the senior most ENGAGE Sport Coach. Madan left for Australia in mid September 2017 but he is still very much involved at ENGAGE, even from far. He has been first coaching B.I.A. team and then for two years J.W.S.C. Moreover Madan has been working with ENGAGE to organize the 2nd Edition of the League focusing especially on corporate sponsorship and he was of big help, really. He loves basketball and he became really passionate about wheelchair basketball, something he will continue to pursue from Down Under.
Bina Giri
Sport: Wheelchair Basketball
Team: Bodhisattva in Action (B.I.A. female Team)
Bina is permanently from Rauthat district and currently lives in Sukhedhara Kathmandu. The new coach for the female team is Bina Giri, a high school student but extremely mature and serious. She studied at Relience School till grade 10 and now she is studying at +2 at Saipal Academy. She started playing basketball when she was in class 5 and she has been part of all her college teams and she is very good with the ball. Bina loves reading and writing poems.
Pushpa Bam
Sport: Wheelchair Basketball
Team: Bodhisattva in Action (N.S.C.I.S.A female Team)
Pushpa is young and energetic Basketball player. She lives in Sukhedhara Kathmandu. She studies in grade 11 in Saipal Academy. Her hobbies are to play Basketball and read biography of famous people. She has been part of all her college team of Saipal Academy. She recently join the ENGAGE as a ENGAGE Sport Coach.
Raju Bhujel
Sport: Wheelchair Basketball
Team: Bodhisattva in Action (N.S.C.I.S.A male Team)
Raju is studying in Triniti College in +2 in Management Faculty. Recently he joins the ENGAGE and this is his first experience working as a volunteer with person with disabilities. He came in ENGAGE with the motive of serving people. He has been playing Basketball since five years back. He is playing from Trinity College.
Sachin Thapa
Sport: Blind Cricket
Sachin is young and active, studying in Bachelor 3rd year in AIMS College, Lagankhel. Currently he is living in Jharuwarashi, Lalitpur. He is expert in search and rescue. He played the vital role in the 2nd Edition of Wheelchair Basketball Legaue as a volunteer. He is interested in Sports, Travelling and in social work.
Krishna Khatri
Sport: Blind Cricket
Krishna Khatri is from Dhapakhelvillage ward no. 4 lalitpur. He is young and energetic person who loves travelling and meet new people. He loves to do the volunteerism work, since 2nd Edition of Wheelchair Basketball League he is with ENGAGE and now he became ENGAGE Sport coach of Blind Cricket.