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Scholarship Programs for most deprived children
from the poorest families of Kirtipur

Concept:

Primary Education Program
(PEP)

PEP-Konzept

Study Support Program
(SSP)

SSP-Konzept

Annual Scholarship
Program (ASP)

ASP-Konzept

Higher Secondary
Scholarship (HSS)

HSS -Konzept

Visitors to Nepal encounter poverty at every turn, especially in the remote rural areas. It cannot be overlooked that despite the busy atmosphere in the capital Kathmandu and close to tourist attractions, the country's average annual per capita income in Nepal is only around US $ 1,000, adjusted for purchasing power around US $ 3,000 (as of 2018). Many visitors to the country are then inclined to help spontaneously with a little money at short notice, without being aware of the sustainability of their support.
The effect of well-intentioned financial aid in supposedly acute emergencies is always the grateful look of the needy, but usually subsides before the foreign visitor has reached his home country. As almost everywhere in the developing world, it is therefore better not to offer help out of pity, but only if a sustainable effect is ensured. Unfortunately, those who think they can help poor children out of emotion and love of people by quickly reaching into their wallets often do the opposite: children's alms become a matter of course in children's consciousness, aggressive begging becomes the norm, and this money children begged for is withdrawn from adults anyway.
As in most poor developing countries, children in Nepal often suffer the most from the economic situation in families. Despite the fact that compulsory schooling for 6 to 11 year olds was introduced years ago, the international statistics of the world organizations show that up to 25% of children are still unable to attend school for economic reasons. In total, less than two thirds of girls can go to primary school, and schoolgirls from rural areas in particular make up the lowest percentage of class attendance. The school enrollment rate in elementary schools is currently around 85% for boys and around 75% for girls, but only around 50% of all elementary school students across the country actually complete the 5-year 'primary level'. In families, especially when there are several children, there is often a lack of money for the obligatory school clothes, books and writing materials etc. Instead, the children are often used for the most difficult child labor in domestic carpet factories, in weaving mills, in agriculture and in brick factories.

The best help we can give to the children of Nepal
is support for better education, to open to them
the conditions and opportunities
for a better future!

Therefore in 2008 set itself the goal of promoting the education of a limited number of particularly disadvantaged children from the poorest families in Kirtipur in the long term and sustainably, from entry into a state/municipal primary school to graduation after class XII and then qualifying graduates for a Bachelor's Enabling study at a college or university.

From the outset, the private aid initiative was based on a concept that dispensed with a widespread, but ultimately unsustainable and inefficient distribution of available financial aid. Instead, the vision of the founder was and is to support a selected and limited group of boys and girls in the long term with targeted and, above all, reliable support from the 1st grade of elementary school to a university degree, thus creating a group of qualified young people who can serve their country particularly efficiently in their future professional activities.

The scholarship covers all essential costs for attending school. We relieve the families of the financial burden of school fees, school uniforms, books, writing utensils, etc., and enable the children to have a financially worry-free education, which in many cases would otherwise not have been possible to start or complete in the first place.


Bald in die Grundschule oder. . .	. . . Kinderarbeit in der Ziegelei??	Große Freude mit kleinen Dingen!

Chronology of the scholarship-programs:

April 2023	Higher Seondary Scholarship Program, Start in 2023
	As a further supplement to the long-term funding in PEP and SSP, since April 2023 we have been supporting 30 qualified graduates of the SEE exam (intermediate school leaving certificate, grade 10) from particularly precarious families who cannot afford to continue attending school until they are ready to study (grade 12). . These 30 girls and boys will each be supported for another 2 years in our “Higher Secondary Scholarship Program”.
	Annual Scholarship Program 2023
	9 students leave the support program according to the rules. The scholarships are awarded to selected younger students from grades 1-5 (including preschool)
March 2022	Annual Scholarship Program
	In addition to the long-term funding in PEP and SSP, we launched another "annual scholarship program" (Annual Scholarship Program ASP) in February 2022 to support up to 60 primary school children (including preschool) from families with particularly precarious ones. 60 girls and boys (primary school grades 1-5 or preschool grade) were selected from all PEP schools with the help of the 14 school principals and will each receive an annual scholarship until they complete grade 5..
	Study Support Programm
	Interim result February 2022: 53 girls and boys are promoted in SSP (8 of them in medical studies such as nurses, pharmacists etc.)
	Primary Education Program
	8 students are still in secondary classes XI and XII and are therefore still supported in the PEP program. 13 students did not continue their training after completing class XII or were not able to qualify sufficiently for further studies.
2021	In the school year 2077 BS (April 2020 AD to March 2021 AD) and 2078 BS (April 2021 AD to March 2022 AD), the scholarship funding has mostly come to a standstill. For almost a full year, regular classes and, above all, the intermediate and final exams at schools, colleges, etc. have largely been cancelled. Isolated online lessons, especially for the secondary levels of state schools, were only able to compensate to a small extent, especially with regard to the poor network quality and availability of means of communication (computers, smartphones, tablets).
March2020 /April 2020 (Results delayed until summer 2020)	Study Support Programm
	38 girls und boys are supported in SSP
	Primary Education Programm
	8 PEP students are taking their SEE exam with a delay due to the pandemic. The rest switch to the Higher Secondary Classes XI-XII. 23 students (+4 repeaters) will take the board exam
March 2019 (Results delayed until summer 2019)	Study Support Programm
	From 2019, after successfully completing the SLC exam after class 12 (so-called +2 exam), we will enable qualified PEP graduates to study at a university or college of their choice up to a bachelor's degree with our study support program. "SSP". One of the girls starts training as a nurse. 11 girls and boys are preselected for study support in SSP.
	Primary Education Programm
	19 PEP students take their SEE exam. An above-average overall result was achieved in the 60 SEE exams to date.
March 2018 (Results summer 2018)	Study Support Programm
	2 girls decide to train as nurses/medical assistants after SEE exams and are supported accordingly by the study support program, which is still in preparation.
	Primary Education Programm
	23 students passed the SEE exam with above-average success. 2 scholarship holders do not continue their education. A girl dies after a serious accident at home
March 2017 (Results summer 2017)	18 PEP students take their SEE exam (NEW: Secondary Education Exam) with above-average results and switch to the Higher Secondary Classes XI-XII.
November 2016	Extension of the program to support classes XI and XII, Higher Secondary Level, completion of "Board Exam" with "SLC" according to the new school system in Nepal
September 2013	Extension of the program to classes IX - X (Secondary Level) with the degree "SLC" (School Leaving Certificate = intermediate maturity)
April 2012	Final expansion of the program to now a maximum of 75 children up to Class VIII (Lower Secondary Level)
October 2010	Extension of the PEP program to grades VI to VIII
April 2009	Due to the great response from donors, the PEP program was expanded to include 55 children

April 2008

Primary Education Programm, Start April 2008

Start of the PEP program with 40 selected disadvantaged children for support at the "Primary Level", (grades I-V).

Since 2008, we have enabled a total of 74 selected children from particularly poor and disadvantaged families in the Kirtipur community to attend school from class I (primary level).
up to Class XII (Higher Secondary Level) in our “Primary School Scholarship Program” PEP.

Selection of "our" children at the beginning of the program in 2008:

The children for the scholarship program were selected with great care among the most needy families by my 7 helpers with the support of the headmasters and teachers from 14 governmental/community schools in Kirtipur in the interest of the greatest possible efficiency of our help. During my travels in 2008, 2009 and 2010, I visited all 75 families in their sometimes miserable accommodations and convinced myself of the need

The stipulation that at least 2/3 of all scholarships must be awarded to girls at all times in the programs is seen as a small contribution of to counteracting the prevailing discrimination against women and girls in Nepal. Up to and including Class X, e.g. scholarships that had become available due to families moving away from Kirtipur were continuously filled with children of the same age who had been selected. Currently, at the beginning of the school year 2079 BS (Nepal calendar) or 2022/2023 AD, the remaining 63 scholarships after a total of 14 years of support and regular school leaving are being awarded to 44 girls and 19 boys

Exemplary insights into the living environment of the children:

Accomodation:

The family of Raj

The gifted Rujina lives here with
her mother and sister

Sailu's father can not work because
of one Disease

Asmita: Mother is a washerwoman

With sick brother and parents
in one room

Prashant also lives with the mother, the unemployed father and the little one
Sister in a single room

Leeja's mother is a day laborer
on the construction

Puja is picked up by her mother and
younger brother from school

10 sqm for three sisters and mother

Jesan's family

Bunu's disabled mother shares the right half of this mud house with
another family

School

Many children from the distant Villages have a long way to school	A morning before class: Appeal with national anthem and gymnastics!	Closing school at Kirtipur Secondary school
First graders in the Indrayani primary school	After school breaks it says Stand still before you continue!	Tables are not common in traditional families, school work on the ground!

Child labor:

Despite the hard work in the brick factory, the children smile when they see the strangers	Many children earn extra income for the family by selling souvenirs.	Maybe in the dump something usable !?
Teaching lesson of the mother in stone tapping for the production of crushed stone in the quarry!	What looks easy is still difficult: Get water from the distant well	A popsicle sweetens that hard life as a young monk in the Tibetan monasteries in the Kathmandu valley


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