By
Maggie Hos-McGrane
Raj
Giri, '97 recently set up the SATHI Foundation
to help a remote Nepalese village called Saping,
located 65 kms north-east of Kathmandu. Saping
is a rather isolated village with no basic
services. The people depend on subsistence
farming and over 50% of the children never
finish elementary school, as they must help
their parents on the farms.
The
main aim of SATHI is to help young children
so they might see there are other ways of maintaining
their livelihood. This involves financial assistance
to needy children in order to help them attend
schools. Education is the only way forward
to bring about some positive changes in the
lives of the children. |
The
project assists financially deprived children
to get an education, sending the poorest children
who are eager to study to a nearby town school
in order to give them the opportunity to finish
their School Leaving Certificate. Long-term goals
include constructing educational facilities in
their own village.
Raj
recently contacted the ISA Alumni. "Besides
study," he wrote, "ISA also taught
me to become a responsible world citizen who
is concerned not only about himself but also
about other people. It was with this feeling
that I recently opened an NGO to help children
who are deprived of even the basic education."
Please
see Raj’s homepage: http://www.nepalsathi.org/.
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