Since 2016, Narayan Baral has been the Principal of Motherland Secondary School, Pokhara, Nepal. He has been teaching accountancy at Motherland to grades 10, 11 and 12 for 23 years as well. He is an Advisor to Kindness Club Motherland, a school club, and a Founder of Kindness Club Pokhara.
 
Narayan is currently a PhD candidate at Singhania University, Jhunjhunu, India. He has earned both his MBA and Bachelor of Commerce from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
 
Narayan has had a 20-year long career with Himalaya Eye Hospital, Pokhara. In 1995, he started as an assistant in the finance department. By 2006, he had been promoted to Hospital Administrator. For many years, he served as the hospital’s head administrator while teaching at Motherland.
 
In 2019, Narayan met with Dave and Durga Maya Andersen to discuss kindness. The topics included kindness story time, establishing a school kindness club and the acute need to teach kindness in schools. He has done his “level best” (as he frequently puts it) to implement all three initiatives discussed at that first meeting. In 2020, both story time and Kindness Club Motherland were established. Kindness curriculum is in development. Currently, as of 2023, there is a dedicated Kindness Teacher and three paid assistants teaching SEL competencies to 38 classes, grades 1 through 8.
 
About kindness Narayan wrote, “A little act of kindness can make a huge difference not only in the life of a person, but society as a whole. Work for spreading kindness in every possible way.”