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An initiative for the most least advantaged and most vulnerable children.

Scholarships

An initiative for the least advantaged and most vulnerable children

We have established a scholarship initiative with Budland School, in appreciation for the new building.

Our first three official scholarship children are in the school.

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Scholarships

Building Budland School will not be the end of the project. We are very pleased to tell you that we have a written legal agreement on condition that if when we\’ve built the school, the managing directors of Budland have agreed to support their own village and neighbouring villages by offering a free scholarship program to the most underprivileged children. This initiative will also help us directly assist the most vulnerable families, and as a way to give something back, it was met with genuine optimism and excitement by the school directors.

Furthermore, due to the tragic circumstances of a few families, with your growing support and our hard work developing the project and the land; we have managed to start early. We passionately believe this innitiative is the heart of our Budland School project.

Since we first informed you about our Chair trustee David\’s vision for the project, through his previous and current journeys here in Nepal, while personally sponsoring Monisa, we now have our first three official scholarship children in the school, Raju, Sapana and Anissa.

Raju, our first scholarship child, who has now been on our initiative for two years, has become a great example of the good that is coming from this project, directly as a result of your generous support. With Sapana and Anissa now joining the initiative recently it shows further exactly what the scholarship will offer. This scholarship not only gives them a free education, it provides their family life with more consistent structure and stability after such personal tragedies and vulnerabilities. Due to Raju’s family issues since the earthquake for instance, we were able to offer them an economic house which was completed one year ago and which you can see in his profile below.

There are many more children like these, that could benefit from a free education at Budland, due to their caste and lack of family education or tragic circumstances. We will be assessing more people’s situations within Baluwapati Village and the surrounding areas as this project develops.

We will continue to update you with any information as soon as we pick more children to receive this benefit, allowing you to learn more about them and also the realisation of this program, through your help and support.

Let us tell you a little bit more about how this initiative helps local children with family and social issues every year, by telling you a little more about Anissa, Sapana and Raju and why they are on the scholarship.

Scholarship Program
Scholarship Program

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Scholarships

Building Budland School will not be the end of the project. We are very pleased to tell you that we have a written legal agreement on condition that if when we\’ve built the school, the managing directors of Budland have agreed to support their own village and neighbouring villages by offering a free scholarship program to the most underprivileged children. This initiative will also help us directly assist the most vulnerable families, and as a way to give something back, it was met with genuine optimism and excitement by the school directors.

Furthermore, due to the tragic circumstances of a few families, with your growing support and our hard work developing the project and the land; we have managed to start early. We passionately believe this innitiative is the heart of our Budland School project.

Since we first informed you about our Chair trustee David\’s vision for the project, through his previous and current journeys here in Nepal, while personally sponsoring Monisa, we now have our first three official scholarship children in the school, Raju, Sapana and Anissa.

Raju, our first scholarship child, who has now been on our initiative for two years, has become a great example of the good that is coming from this project, directly as a result of your generous support. With Sapana and Anissa now joining the initiative recently it shows further exactly what the scholarship will offer. This scholarship not only gives them a free education, it provides their family life with more consistent structure and stability after such personal tragedies and vulnerabilities. Due to Raju’s family issues since the earthquake for instance, we were able to offer them an economic house which was completed one year ago and which you can see in his profile below.

There are many more children like these, that could benefit from a free education at Budland, due to their caste and lack of family education or tragic circumstances. We will be assessing more people’s situations within Baluwapati Village and the surrounding areas as this project develops.

We will continue to update you with any information as soon as we pick more children to receive this benefit, allowing you to learn more about them and also the realisation of this program, through your help and support.

Let us tell you a little bit more about how this initiative helps local children with family and social issues every year, by telling you a little more about Anissa, Sapana and Raju and why they are on the scholarship.

Anissa

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Anissa, age five has received our most recent scholarship. Anissa’s story is another one rooted in negative family cycles and neglect, with an ignorance rooted in a lack of decent education, along with a few other serious social issues. The father left his parental responsibilities when he remarried and has essentially been absent from her life. Although the father’s physical proximity is not so far, he is physically and emotionally unavailable. Anissa is currently only being cared for by her fifteen-year-old sister.  Purna introduced us to her situation, which seems unlikely to change and by all accounts has been going on for a while. The mother left to get better work and sends a little money back when she can, essentially leaving the children to fend for themselves. They are also struggling out of a single room of corrugated tin, currently unsure when life will get better and having to grow up faster than they should have to while they are forced to take more responsibility for themselves than children should ever have to do. They are severely vulnerable without the further support which we will now provide, while monitoring them, through the scholarship initiative with Budland School.

We will also now be continuously monitoring this area of dysfunction and increasing the scholarship admissions, with the school project’s success, to make sure we help the most vulnerable children when we finish the school building as part of our real founding project. We will be happy to share all good news of the work Budland School will be doing with us for their community in the future.

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Scholarship Program

Sapana

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Sapana, aged 6, is the oldest daughter and the second of six siblings in her family. The oldest sibling is a severely disabled boy called Buddah-Rai (we are currently looking at ways to help him). Her parents; desperate for a healthy boy; essentially kept having children until they had another boy. Sapana’s parents are uneducated and both work hard on the rice fields for little money while having a lack of understanding of the responsibilities they created for themselves with the position they are in. It is through this we saw the vulnerabilities in her situation.

She will have a lot of responsibility as she grows up and we want to help her to get the best life she can with the added security of our support, as we monitor her progress whilst connecting with her family. She seems thoroughly happy at Budland School, with one of the biggest smiles we have seen whenever I have visited, and seems to be doing very well by all account since starting earlier in the year.

our first scholarship child, and why it was crucial we rebuilt his home.

Raju Tamang

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Whilst beginning our School rebuild and development project in the small village of Baluwapati, in Nepal; we came across a family of two, critically suffering since the 2015 earthquakes.

The boy, Raju Tamang, has now been accepted as the first scholarship child inside the Budland School, thanks to your growing support for our Budland School rebuild project; however, both mother and son were suffering greatly due to two huge losses in their lives after the earthquakes.

Raju’s family\’s life was turned upside down, his home was seriously damaged beyond repair.  Raju then tragically lost his father less than two years later. These losses put a further large strain on the family, and the burden of these events was too much for them, already suffering poverty. Raju’s mother had never had the fortune of an education growing up and has really struggled since her husband passed. When we visited to assess their situation, although physically healthy, it seemed they were still very much lost in the darkness.

Every structural point we saw at their original home was weakened. The load bearing walls were cracked deeply at the corners of both the building and windows, from the ground up to the roof, rendering the property uninhabitable and dangerous. Originally the building would have had another story that now ceased to exist. The house next door had an open wall where the two houses were once adjoined upstairs. This could quite easily be a serious additional hazard for them if it was also to fall down. Their single room was only just standing and sheltered by old leaking tin sheets that didn’t particularly do justice to their purpose!

We strongly felt that as part of our larger school project, and seeing the physical condition of their home, whilst also worrying about their mental health, confirmed to us that we should be doing more for this family outside the scholarship.

With your generous support we managed to fund a small additional side project that has greatly eased their stress and helped their mental health. They had been struggling relentlessly together for a long time, all on their own. A little help from us has lifted them up to a much more stable, sustainable, secure and hygienic life with a little bit of comfort.

The local community had grown very worried about this family and are all extremely happy they have finally got the support they needed. We are very grateful to everyone that supported our mission to help them.

Raju and his mother are also extremely grateful to everyone who has helped change their reality for the better. They have been amazing company whilst we built them a new home, as they were very good hosts on site and are now dear friends also.

Please check out the video at the top of the page to see our journey constructing their new home.

Scholarship Program
Scholarship Program

Raju Tamang

Whilst beginning our School rebuild and development project in the small village of Baluwapati, in Nepal; we came across a family of two, critically suffering since the 2015 earthquakes.

The boy, Raju Tamang, has now been accepted as the first scholarship child inside the Budland School, thanks to your growing support for our Budland School rebuild project; however, both mother and son were suffering greatly due to two huge losses in their lives after the earthquakes.

Raju’s family\’s life was turned upside down, his home was seriously damaged beyond repair.  Raju then tragically lost his father less than two years later. These losses put a further large strain on the family, and the burden of these events was too much for them, already suffering poverty. Raju’s mother had never had the fortune of an education growing up and has really struggled since her husband passed. When we visited to assess their situation, although physically healthy, it seemed they were still very much lost in the darkness.

Every structural point we saw at their original home was weakened. The load bearing walls were cracked deeply at the corners of both the building and windows, from the ground up to the roof, rendering the property uninhabitable and dangerous. Originally the building would have had another story that now ceased to exist. The house next door had an open wall where the two houses were once adjoined upstairs. This could quite easily be a serious additional hazard for them if it was also to fall down. Their single room was only just standing and sheltered by old leaking tin sheets that didn’t particularly do justice to their purpose!

We strongly felt that as part of our larger school project, and seeing the physical condition of their home, whilst also worrying about their mental health, confirmed to us that we should be doing more for this family outside the scholarship.

With your generous support we managed to fund a small additional side project that has greatly eased their stress and helped their mental health. They had been struggling relentlessly together for a long time, all on their own. A little help from us has lifted them up to a much more stable, sustainable, secure and hygienic life with a little bit of comfort.

The local community had grown very worried about this family and are all extremely happy they have finally got the support they needed. We are very grateful to everyone that supported our mission to help them.

Raju and his mother are also extremely grateful to everyone who has helped change their reality for the better. They have been amazing company whilst we built them a new home, as they were very good hosts on site and are now dear friends also.

Please check out the video at the top of the page to see our journey constructing their new home.

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Monisa Nepali

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Monisa has not had the easiest childhood. Her family has a history of being uneducated and are a very low caste in their society. This combination does not offer much opportunity or future, which too easily can end up becoming a hereditary cycle.

Monisa lost her mother last year, before the earthquakes. Then the earthquakes came and shook the nation, killing many and disturbing thousands of lives further with injury and homelessness. Monisa\’s humble family house, was also badly damaged in the earthquakes, taking the little they had. Over 90 percent of her village, like many in the Kavre district, lost their homes. Due to Monisa\’s family being too poor to own land, it left them with great emotional stress and anxiety.

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Monisa has not had the easiest childhood. Her family has a history of being uneducated and are a very low caste in their society. This combination does not offer much opportunity or future, which too easily can end up becoming a hereditary cycle.

Monisa lost her mother last year, before the earthquakes. Then the earthquakes came and shook the nation, killing many and disturbing thousands of lives further with injury and homelessness. Monisa\’s humble family house, was also badly damaged in the earthquakes, taking the little they had. Over 90 percent of her village, like many in the Kavre district, lost their homes. Due to Monisa\’s family being too poor to own land, it left them with great emotional stress and anxiety.

David was in Nepal after the earthquakes with his friends Marie and Julie. They had some left over donation money after delivering tin sheets together for disaster relief. With the monsoon season coming to an end, they weighed up their options, deciding they could do something more permanent, even if only on a small budget. They made some assessments and started a project to help Monisa\’s small family with more secure living conditions. It was clear this family was in the most serious need of help, and due to their low caste, least likely to get the help they needed.

Whilst volunteering on the house building, they quickly realised that Monisa was not in education. This young girl had effectively missed two years of education already. They also realised she had a very strong natural curiosity to learn, actively wanting to join in with simple tasks from the start. It was this active drive and curiosity which led to David constantly finding small and safe jobs for her to do. She constantly surprised them with her dedication, strength and co-ordination, even though she was still only a very small six year old at the time.

Ultimately, due to being in such close daily proximity, the team started to grow close to the family. Together they could not ignore this injustice, the question of why she was not in school, soon started to burn in their hearts. Monisa didn\’t seem to be socialising with the other children in the village. A likely consequence of having no school activity and of being at the bottom of the caste system.

They tried their best to communicate to the father, Ram. Being an uneducated man himself, it was incredibly difficult for him to understand the value of school. He was fearful he would lose his daughter if she became educated; that she would in time, forget about him and move away. Initially distrustful of David, their relationship grew closer as they relaxed after work in the evenings. A bond between them formed. This enabled them to work together with the family\’s best interests at heart, and finally she started going to school. After one full year at Budland, Monisa is successfully catching up in small classes. She has made many friends is now approaching her third academic year in April 2017. This one, small, Nepali family is finally recovering its\’ lost structure, giving them both more stability as a result, and the future is looking more promising indeed.

Scholarship Program
Scholarship Program
Scholarship Program

David was in Nepal after the earthquakes with his friends Marie and Julie. They had some left over donation money after delivering tin sheets together for disaster relief. With the monsoon season coming to an end, they weighed up their options, deciding they could do something more permanent, even if only on a small budget. They made some assessments and started a project to help Monisa\’s small family with more secure living conditions. It was clear this family was in the most serious need of help, and due to their low caste, least likely to get the help they needed.

Whilst volunteering on the house building, they quickly realised that Monisa was not in education. This young girl had effectively missed two years of education already. They also realised she had a very strong natural curiosity to learn, actively wanting to join in with simple tasks from the start. It was this active drive and curiosity which led to David constantly finding small and safe jobs for her to do. She constantly surprised them with her dedication, strength and co-ordination, even though she was still only a very small six year old at the time.

Ultimately, due to being in such close daily proximity, the team started to grow close to the family. Together they could not ignore this injustice, the question of why she was not in school, soon started to burn in their hearts. Monisa didn\’t seem to be socialising with the other children in the village. A likely consequence of having no school activity and of being at the bottom of the caste system.

They tried their best to communicate to the father, Ram. Being an uneducated man himself, it was incredibly difficult for him to understand the value of school. He was fearful he would lose his daughter if she became educated; that she would in time, forget about him and move away. Initially distrustful of David, their relationship grew closer as they relaxed after work in the evenings. A bond between them formed. This enabled them to work together with the family\’s best interests at heart, and finally she started going to school. After one full year at Budland, Monisa is successfully catching up in small classes. She has made many friends is now approaching her third academic year in April 2017. This one, small, Nepali family is finally recovering its\’ lost structure, giving them both more stability as a result, and the future is looking more promising indeed.

Your help really makes a difference! Building Budland will enable us to continue  helping many more vulnerable children like these.

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All Photos  taken on site in Baluwapati at Budland School have been legally consented by the parents and guardians of the children for this projects publicity. 

Photos and videos shot by Sushil Babu Chhetri. Contact at whitebutterfliesmedia@gmail.com

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