Population
24 million
Capital City
Kathmandu
Leadership
Prime Minister
Sher Bahadur Deuba
King
Gyanendra Bir Bikram
Shah Dev
Religion
90% Hindu
5% Buddhist
3% Muslim
2% other
Nepal
Ambassador
to the
U.S.
Ambassador
Royal Nepalese
Embassy
2131 Leroy Pl.
Washington, DC 20008
Phone: (202) 667-4550
BIO
Many poor children in Nepal, especially from the remote villages, will never have a chance of an education,
since all schools in Nepal have to charge fees. Some kids will
labor in the fields all day long, unable to read and write; some
may be exploited from an early age in a factory; and some girls
(thousands every year) will be sold into the sex-trade in India.
But
now there is hope for these children through the Solidarity
International Academy, a Christian school
where poor and
needy children are educated through the
generosity of inter-
national sponsors.
If you participate in our sponsorship
project, your regular
financial giving makes you a partner in educating a special
child. You have a unique opportunity to pray for the child you
sponsor. You can send cards and letters and presents for
birthdays and Christmas. And you receive periodic letters
from
CSW reporting on the progress of the school and your
sponsored child.
The vision of the Founding Principal of the Academy - Rishi
Acharya - is to rescue and to love the needy children, to
edu-
cate them and give them a faith for life. It is to give back to the
remote rural villages fresh young leaders who will help
develop literacy, health care and craft cooperatives. 100
children from remote villages attend the school as boarders
and live together in a remarkably happy family atmosphere.
There is a hostel on site, with a kitchen and dining
room,
several bedrooms and dormitories, with showers, toilets and
laundry facilities attached.
Over
300 children have already been sponsored as pupils.
They are graduating and going into their
communities to be a
light in the darkness, sharing what they've
learned with others
and providing Christian leadership in this
Hindu nation.
This
program is operated from our UK partner office. Please
contact Martin Dore, Nepal Project Officer at
martindore@csw.org.uk or Andrew Jacobson, International
Projects Director at andrewjacobson@csw.org.uk or
call
011 208 942 8810.
For an information pack, you could write to CSW, PO BOX 99,
New Malden, KT3 3YF, United Kingdom (extra
postage
required for international mail)
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