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Removing Barriers to Education for Girls in Thulipokhari, Nepal

a project of Soroptimist International of Truckee Meadows, Sierra Nevada Region, SIA

In partnership with the people of Thulipokhari, Nepal, SITM helped build and now maintains a dormitory for girls who previously had to walk two to four hours one way to reach classes at the Janata Sudarsham Multiple Campus. Funds are raised through SITM’s semi-annual garage sales and through donations of members and others to provide room and board and school tuition for the girls.

Highlights

  • In August 2001, 20 girls became the first class to occupy the dormitory.

  • Since 2002 almost 300 girls have received an education through SITM's ongoing program. Many seek further training with computers and teaching. They are employed as teachers, social workers, or work in projects such as bringing clean water and sanitation to their villages. They are educated and active contributors to their communities.

  • In 2003 SITM began an animal assistance program which to makes loans to villagers to purchase bee hives, chickens, goats and water buffaloes

Want to Help?

Annual sponsorships for the girls are $30 month/$300 year for dormitory room and board, plus school tuition. Additional, scholarships for girls needing tuition only is $15 month/$150 year. To donate, contact SITM by email sitruckeemeadows@hotmail.com or write to us at P.O. Box 20125 Reno, NV 89515.

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The dormitory/hostel, named Purna Guyan (which means “whole knowledge”), can house a maximum of 36 girls in nine dorm rooms, a full-time “house mother”, plus a communal room for dining and studying.

Solar panels on the roof provide lighting in the rooms, making it the only electrically lighted building in the region
 
Three girls study together in one of the dorm rooms. Each room is approximately 9-feet by 14-feet and designed to hold up to four girls. As one student wrote, “There are not words in my language to express my joy for this opportunity to receive an education.

A Nepali couple is employed to buy food from local villagers and prepare meals for the girls. Their daily diet includes vegetables, lentils and rice, however, once a week the girls are served a portion of meat, a rarity in the diets of remote Nepalis.
 
   
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