Salleri Girl’s Hostel
In the remote Everest region of Nepal, seven out of ten girls drop out of school after grade 10. Other than for reasons of poverty, the prevailing cultural view in Nepal favors sending boys to school and keeping the girls at home to take care of household chores. As a result, the literacy rate of women is just 23%.
At The Small World, we envision a world where every girl and boy has equal access and opportunity to attend school and receive an education. To realize this dream, and to end the gender gap in education in remote villages of Solukhumbhu, we built the first of its kind Girls’ Dorm for higher education. This provides guardianship for girls to have a safe place as well as tuition fees, uniforms, and books. Several Women’s Leadership Programs help them to push their personal limits with a goal of future role model leadership for their community. This helps to assure both girls and women and future generations that girls also can be teachers, doctors, leaders, social workers, successful business women, or anything they can dream of for their future.
Every year, The Small World provides 40 girls from the Solukhumbu with safe lodging, clean water, school tuition, fees, uniforms, books, school supplies, additional curriculum (such as computer classes) at the Girls’ Hostel for Higher Education in Salleri, Nepal. This program supports girls in grades 11 and 12.
We strongly believe the investment we together making on girls education is best investment to breakdown the poverty because better educated women tend to be healthier, participate more in the formal labor market, earn higher incomes, have fewer children, marry at a later age, and enable better health care and education for their children, should they choose to become mothers. All these factors combined can help uplift households, communities, and nations out of poverty.
Annual sponsorship costs are $1,500 per student per year for the Salleri hostel. Sponsor a student in full or partially by donating today.
Girl’s Bachelor Education Initiative
The Small World USA then comes along girls as they graduate and look into a University Education in Kathmandu. We provide scholarships for girls as they move onto to live out their dream of a degree. You can help change a life by helping to sponsor and motivate young women, helping them continue their education in courses of study including nursing, engineering, public health, business management, social work and more.
Bachelors education scholarships vary depending on course work they want to pursue and can range from $3,000 and above for each girl attending college. Currently we provide scholarships for 120 girls.
To provide a scholarship to one of these amazing girls and to learn more details please reach out to us at usainfo@thesmallworld.org
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