For Education Foundation

Had our annual lunch with the kids, women, and girls today 😊.

Right now, we're helping four children stay in school by supporting their education and providing school supplies. This year, due to funding challenges, we had to pause the ration distribution, but we’re not giving up. We're focused on keeping these kids in school and working closely with their moms to ensure they have jobs and stability.

There are days when what we do makes no sense, but then a small win happens, and it's a beautiful reminder of what we’ve been able to achieve together with your incredible support.

We may not post as often as we used to, but our gratitude remains endless. Thank you to everyone who’s been with us for the last decade and beyond. Your support has made the impossible possible.

Stumbled upon this video on Instagram wherein Education Minister Sumana Shrestha is talking about how education brings awareness and how awareness changes our society and stresses on the fact how important is it for every individual to play an active role to ensure that the kids in our family, neighbourhood & our surroundings go to school and stay there.

In the last 10 years of running For Education Foundation, we might not have made a significant impact in terms of the number of our beneficiaries but we are immensely proud that at least these students who were so vulnerable and ready to drop out of school went to school, stayed there and graduated high school successfully.

Do your bit. Send kids to school. Donate. Help. Influence. Empower.

म आज जहाँ छु शिक्षाकै कारण छु। शिक्षाले मात्रै चेतना ल्याउँछ र चेतनाले मात्रै समाज बनाउने हो। सफलताको सपना शिक्षाले देखाउने हो। अहिले विद्यालयहरूमा नयाँ भर्ना खुलेको छ। मन्त्रालयले विद्यार्थी भर्ना गर्न र विद्यालयमा टिकाउन थुप्रै कार्यक्रमहरू सञ्चालन गर्दै छ। बालबालिकाहरूलाई विद्यालयसम्म पुर्‍याउन तपाईँ, हामी सबै जना खट्नुपर्छ। अभिभावकत्व लिएर हुन्छ की, छात्रवृत्ति दिएर हुन्छ की, आफ्नो कथा र सफलताबाट प्रेरणा दिएर हुन्छ, तपाईँले विद्यार्थी भर्ना अभियानमा आफ्नो ठाउँबाट सहयोग गरिदिनुहोस्। #अबसिक्छनेपाल #enrollforfuture

We have been supporting Laxmi and her family for almost a decade now. Laxmi appears for S.E.E. this year and hopefully will pass with flying colors.

Currently, we are looking for someone to sponsor Laxmi and her family for the next two years of high school. We are confident that in these two years, Laxmi will be able to groom herself personally and professionally to be able to provide for her family thereafter.

If you know someone who would be interested to sponsor, please share or feel free to get in touch with us with your queries.

Every small donation counts.

10,000 for a whole month of essential supplies for 4 families.

Go ahead and make someone's start of the year a very happy new year 🎉🎊🎉🎊

Thank you Spoonful of Wishes for your kind support and donation of NPR.50,000.

🙏❤️😊

FUND APPEAL

At FEF, we believe every child has a right to quality education, nutritious food and safe shelter. Currently, we are supporting three families and six children who live near Pashupati Mandir. We provide them a monthly ration that includes rice, cooking oil, daal and other snack items from a small shop in Pinglasthan.

Apart from that, we have been supporting Laxmi by paying for her living cost for a small room that she shares with her mother.

We give these children and their families a hope for a brighter and better future. Help us build that life for these children in need.

Check the comment section for for the bank details.

FUND APPEAL FOR LAXMI AND HER MOTHER

Laxmi and her mother live in a small room near Gaushala area and FEF has been supporting them for the last few years by providing them with the rental costs. Laxmi is currently studying in Grade 10 and we are certain that life ahead is going to be better for them.

We appeal to our friends and supporters to please donate whatever amount you can to help Laxmi stay in school and for her to have a roof over her head. The monthly rental cost is NPR. 5,000.

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We invite all our well wishers and supporters for the charity dinner being held at Attic on 21st May, 2022.

Includes live musical performances with good meal.

Dm for payment options 😊

Part 1/2. Laxmi's Story

The last time when I worked I was making ‘Potey’ for a shopkeeper . I gradually got  better at it and could manage making around three a day. I’d make as many as possible and deliver them at the end of the week. I’d make Rs 12 per piece which isn’t a lot but is definitely something and allows me to stay home and study. I miss being able to go to school though, talking to my friends and walking around. We used to learn a lot from each other but now it is just my mom, me and the phone. 

Once I had a job at a clothing store where the day would end late. I used to enjoy my work but I’d really get stressed out as the sun would start to set. Before it got dark most eateries would have a lot of men hanging out and ‘drinking’. Although nothing terrible has happened, there are always these ‘what ifs’. It was scary and I’d ask one of my relatives to walk me home on some days. I don’t believe that gender determines one’s worth or ability but certain situations do become more challenging. Although safety, movement and facilities in general seem to be compromised if you are a woman. I would really like for myself to be able to provide for my mother as a child should, like a ‘Son’ would.

Mom has her problems and so does our life together but we feel we have a fairly good life. Life is not perfect but it is better than before, I am an educated and capable person. I do not have an impulsive nature nor do I have any bad habits like many of my cousins nor have I chosen marriage. I think the opportunity to go to school really made me understand what education really meant, it has enabled me to design a life that is full of possibilities. I like studying, in fact I am pretty good at it but it is really hard to learn, especially math. There are so many of us and such little time for questions with online classes which makes it harder. I try to be as attentive as possible but even then, it is not that easy. I will soon be done with the 10th grade but I still have three  years until I can start working full time and support my family.

Sarala's Story

I do some house work in the morning, like doing the dishes and cleaning our place. After that I walk to my cousin’s place in Boudha. She is 15 years old and I’m 14. Both of our mothers’ work throughout the day so we give each other company. We spend the whole day sitting in the sun and chatting about random things. After spending the day there, I walk back home before it gets dark. 

I don’t have many memories from my childhood but I remember us spending the whole day at  a day care center for street children.. Our parents would be away working, I started to do well with studies and got good marks  too. My experience in my last school wasn't very good especially because of this one teacher. I feel like I was being targeted for my shortcomings and weaknesses more than necessary. It was especially bad because she would broadcast them in front of the class. She would call me ‘Dirty’ and make comments about how I didn’t look presentable.

I find it really difficult to express myself and interact with people ever since. It has affected my schooling and learning experience in general. She might not be a bad person but she is a little too harsh and will never change so I am going to change my school. I have found another school just nearby. . I don’t know the name but it is a public  school and opens for admission on ‘Saraswati Puja’.

I don’t know what the future holds for me but I would love a small house where I am able to experience peace and freedom. It would be nice to maybe become a teacher. I wish I had a more structured plan but I feel nothing in life is really guaranteed, our aspirations and dreams change with time and grow with us. Just like life, aren’t we constantly evolving as human beings?

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Part 3/3. Samir's Story.

I can’t recollect much of my childhood but I definitely know that I transformed into a new person when I came to the city. The world started to look big and so did Life. I started to understand the real meaning of things not just as they are but also as they possibly could be. I do have good memories from the village but I don’t think I am made to stay there my whole life. A week-long stay is just about enough. Most of the people I grew up with are either married with children or have become the kind of people I wouldn’t even want to associate myself with. With not much to do and lack of any opportunity to grow in life alcoholism seems to have become a problem too. Maybe some TV and the Internet would bring about some positive changes. The one thing that could definitely promise growth would be a chance at employment, that really could be the cure for so many problems.

I have always been curious about things and liked figuring things out. I am pretty good at understanding the technicality of things and how they work. Understanding the process just gives me such satisfaction that nothing else does. Study gives me a similar sense of joy especially when I am able to understand what is being taught and get my assignments done right. I am having a hard time understanding math though but I know I can do it, anyone with a brain should be able to understand it anyway. It is a little frustrating but I look at it in a positive way and use it as a push. Thankfully, I have my sister who is there to help me.

If I am able to continue my life the way it is moving now with guidance from people around me I’d be able to make everything better for me and my family. I am confident that it will be a life full of possibilities and progress.

Part 2/3. Samir's story.

Before I came to Kathmandu, I lived with my grandmother and sisters in the village. Life was slow but it was fun too, moving around with no care for the world or my sisters. People in the villages are traditionalists, therefore discriminations seem to always exist in the way that they just look normal. Both men and women work there but once done with their designated work men seem to take off. However, the women are either on the farm or taking care of the family but they are always working. Although men are popularly thought to be stronger, I do not subscribe to it because I don’t feel like I am the ‘strongest’. In my understanding and observation women have done way better for themselves and their families while the men struggle even just to care for themselves.

I respect my mom a lot, she has always supported us emotionally and financially. She loves us and has done everything she could for us but she is very innocent. She almost doesn’t have a filter and forgets that the world isn’t very kind and ends up sharing everything with people around us. It upsets me and I try to explain things to her and I end up being harsh. Such times are really difficult but I tend to always correct myself and things work out.