Meet our scholars:
We are currently empowering 6 young women and helping make their dreams come true by providing scholarships to cover their college tuition costs. Their annual tuition costs are listed below their bio’s.
Unlike the United States, in Nepal their are no Pell grants, no government student loans, no merit scholarships and no athletic scholarships. You can help by making a donation to help with college tuition for these ladies and the many others that we want to help.
Kopilla Gautam
Tribhuvan University
Kopilla is Samjahana’s older sister and has been supported by EO for ~2 years. Her favorite subject is math, she likes children, her favorite animal is the horse and she love visiting new places. She finished up her 10+2 at Lincoln College and passed her university entrance exams and is now studying for a Bachelors in Business Administration (BBA) at Tribhuvan University.
Tuition and book costs = $1,000/year
Samjahana Gautam
Tribhuvan University
Samjahana is following in her older sister, Kopilla’s, footsteps and getting a college education. Samjhana is from Chainpur, a municipality in Sankhuwasabha District in the Kosi Zone of north-eastern Nepal. She is currently enrolled in 11(+2) and is attending Lincoln College and studying humanities with a dream of getting a degree in Social Work. Her annual college costs are $340 USD.
Reshman
Reshma – Reshma is from the Chepang community. The Chepang have often been characterized as the poorest of Nepal’s poor. Forced teenage pregnancies are common. Chepang men and women are basically egalitarian and no social ranking exists as it does in caste Nepalese society. Resma has no information regarding her family. Her dream is to be a business woman and contribute to her community’s people. Reshma’s college costs are only $700/year.
Balkumari
Balkumari – Balkumari is originally from Khurkot Sindhuli. Her mother died when she was 8 years old and her father is partially deaf. She was abducted when she was 13 years old and was eventually rescued by Maiti Nepal, a non-profit program that rescues girls from sex trafficking. This year she completed her SEE (Grade 10) will be studying 10+2 in Management in Kathmandu. Her annual college costs are $600 USD which includes tuition, uniform, and text books.
Rajkumari
Rajkumari – Rajkumari is the first SEE (Secondary Equivalency Exam) female graduate from her indigenous (Majhi) community from the Ramechhap District of Nepal. She is from a poor Majhi indigenous family and both of her parents are fishermen on the Sunkoshi river. She wants to study for a Diploma in Civil Engineering in Sindhuli. We believe she will be the first female to be an engineer from the Majhi community in Nepal. Her annual college costs are $ 1,200 and includes tuition, uniform and text books.
To learn more about the Majhi indigenous community https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/13231/NP
Barsha
Diploma in Engineering
Barsha is from Kolikot. She is intelligent and determined, Barsha will be able to achieve everything she undertakes. Barsha passed her SEE (Secondary Exit Exams) and studied engineering and just received her Diploma in engineering. Barsha’s annual college costs were $1,300.
Debit
Diploma in Engineering
Debit – Debit needs our help. Debit is from Ilam located in eastern Nepal, Debit did not have a father and was living in another home as a helper when he was 6 years old. He has been a top student in school and scored an A+ on his SEE’s. Now he wants to study Civil Engineering in his home district, Ilam. His host family will pay for his room and board and EO will be covering his 3 years of engineering tuition, books and fees. His annual costs for engineering are $1,300/year
Lalit
Hotel Management
Lalit – Lalit was a street child and with the support of police and children welfare boards he was found and provided housing. Now, he has completed the SEE and wants to study 10+2 in Hotel Management with the dream of becoming a hotel manager. Lalit’s annual educational costs are $790/year.
Amrit
Education
Amrit – Amrit is from Golanjor Rural Municipality of Sindhuli. He is from the poor and untouchable caste family. He is a 1st generation to complete grade 10. Amrit is not an orphan but his parents don’t have any land for farming nor a job. They work in other villagers’ homes as domestic worker and get some food and little cash. Since 4th grade he has worked on a farm before and after school for money to help his family. Now he joined 10+2 in education in Gaumati Higher Secondary School in Sindhuli. In the future he wants to be a math teacher. His annual tuition costs are $880/year.
Binod
Hotel Management
Binod – Binod is from Palpa district of western Nepal and is from the untouchable (Dalit) caste. He worked as a laborer in one of the hotels in Lumbini and the owner allowed him to attend school. He completed his SEE with good grades and now we are supporting him for his 10+2 in Hotel Management from St Joseph College Lumbini. In the future he wants to start a hotel in Nepal. His annual tuition costs are $790/year.
Harsid
Diploma in Engineering
Harsid is studying Civil Engineering which is a 3-year diploma program totaling $4,000 USD for the 3 years. One of the big benefits of a Diploma in Engineering in Nepal is that it will get a GREAT job and he will be independent. Harsid’s annual college costs for engineering is $1,300 USD.
Kamal
Diploma in Hotel Management
Kamal – Kamal is from Kalikot district far-western development region of Nepal. He stayed at New Nepal society Nepal orphanage home located at Baneshwor and completed his school leaving certificate. After the age of 18 and completion of S.E.E and he had to leave the orphanage home. Kamal contacted us from Kalikot and asked us for help and we now invited him to Kathmandu where he is living in our dorm/hostile and preparing for his CTEVT exam for a Diploma in Hotel Management from Madan Ashram Collage. His tuition and living expenses are $1,300/yr.