About Our Scholarship Girls
Our Scholarship Girl Mingma Chhotin Wanted to Share a Song:
Bibasha
Meet Bibasha, she is 11 years old and studying in grade 6. At the age of four, her father divorced her mother and started living separately with his second wife. The following year her mother also eloped and never came back. She has since been living with her widowed grandmother in one of the very remote village of Mid-western Nepal called Kapre, in the Lamjung region. She walks 2 hours one way every day to reach her school. She needs to cross a river and walk through the jungle to make it to school. Bibasha is also responsible for preparing lunch and dinner for her and her grandmother every day as her grandmother is busy taking care of the animals and the farm. Her grandmother’s financial condition does not allow them to move to closer to the only school in her region.
Even in the midst of these hardships, she is one of the top three students in her class. She has continued to secure her position in the top three every year. She is keen to pursue her education at any cost. Her teachers are always amazed with her zeal to learn every day at school. ENG is eager to support her so that she may keep up with her dream and witness her success one day.
Kalpana Tamang
Meet Kalpana, she is a 9 year old girl studying in grade four. She is living with her mother and her elder sister in Kathmandu, though her family is originally from Eastern Nepal. Her family with her father and grandparents previously lived together, but the living environment was not good. Her mother experienced a frequent and intense amount of domestic violence from her father and from her grandparents. About five years ago her mother was able to flee with her youngest child to Kathmandu. Kalpana and her mother moved in with her aunt where they lived together for four and half years. Her elder sister was left with the grandparents and the father. Recently a few months back her sister also had come to live with them. After her sister arrived, they moved from their aunt’s house and now living in a rented room.
Her mother is now raising two girls on her own. It is difficult for her to take care of everything at home as every day she works as a manual laborer at construction sites. She also serves as a house maid to employers in the morning and the night around this work. She is all alone to raise the girls and meet their needs. Kalpana, as young as she is, helps her mother in household chores like cleaning and cooking. Kalpana has a genuine love for school and learning but would be unable to access any level of education without outside support. We are glad that ENG found her in the midst of her mother’s helplessness and Kalpana is continuing her education without any financial worry.
NIDHI
“Hello. My name is Nidhi and I am in 9th grade at Rising Rays School in Kathmandu. I am very happy that I was selected to receive support from Empower Nepali Girls. I never thought I would get this chance in life and this opportunity to pursue my dreams of becoming a doctor. There are so many other Nepali girls like me who want to stand on their own legs and prove to the entire world that women can do everything that men can do. I will study hard and reach my goals. I hope that many other Nepali girls will also have this opportunity.
Thank you!”
RAJNI SUNAM
“Hello. It’s me, Ranji Sunam, one of the Empower Nepali Girls Scholarship Students. I am studying for a Bachelors in social work at Nesfield College in Lalitpur. I am very proud of Empower Nepali Girls. Without your support, I would not reach my dreams. Thank you for helping me.”
A POEM BY NHUJEN WANGMU, 8th GRADE STUDENT OF HIMS SCHOOL, KATHMANDU
Do They Have a Chance?
Innocent girls being sold
the truth they are never told;
What like will the world be
Only the darkness they can see
They are tortured to death
Till they lose the faith;
They give up their dreams
No one hears, no matter they scream
They are involved in worst of things
And ruin their life as the time swings;
Every day they struggle to live
Nothing they receive only they give
Their dignity and pride all gone
All those lonely nights they cry;
Waiting for a last chance
The happiness at a glance.