Humanist Education Radio Programme in Nepal<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

In 1998 IHEU funded the Research Academy for Humanism RAFHAJ to help it establish a presence in Nepalese society, and to produce resource material on Humanism. As a result, the organization was able to set up two branch offices: one in Nepalgunj and another in Jhapa, and also create promotional materials which further enabled the RAFHAJ to apply for funding from other donors. RAFHAJ draws its inspiration from the Nepalese Humanist thinker Jai Prithvi. Jai Prithvi established a Humanist club in Bangalore in 1929, and corresponded with the American Ethical Union.

RAFHAJ has now obtained 8000 US Dollars in funding from UNESCO which will be used to produce 26 brief weekly transmissions on Humanism. The programme will consist of opinions, interviews, music, humanist songs, radio drama and children and youth programme. A team of Nepalese Humanists led by Min Bahadur Singh act as the advisory board. The organization is now seeking funding to purchase FM broadcasting equipment, and efforts are also on to spread Humanism through community Humanist clubs.