The Small World

Please help raise $5,000 to support 40 girls from rural villages of Nepal with housing and education support each year.

The Small World's mission is to empower girls, women and communities in the Himalayan regions of Nepal. The organization supports girls from small, remote communities to provide girls resources and support they need to complete their education. Every year, the Girls Dorm for Higher Education in Salleri, Nepal serves 40 girls in grades 11 and 12. The girls come from some of the most remote villages in Nepal's Solukhumbu region and travel to reside at the dorm to access these grade levels of school, which are unavailable in their home villages. In the areas we work, up to seven out of 10 girls drop out of school after the 10th grade. The dorm provides a safe space for the girls to live and learn together. In addition to their traditional education, girls residing at the dorm take extra classes, such as computer education, to prepare them for potential employment in the future.

Funding received for this project will cover the costs associated with sending 40 girls to grades 11 and 12, including their lodging, bedding, school uniforms, books, supplies and tuition, as well as health care and access to empowerment programming. Operational costs include staff salary for the resident chaperone (a graduate of the program), and a teacher, in addition to fuel and power.

Project costs per girl are as follows: School tuition fees = $480/year Stationary and books = $90/year Health Care = $150/year Two sets of School Uniforms and One Pair of Shoes = $70/year Mattress, blanket, pillow and bed sheets = $35/year Kitchen Utensils = $45/year

We believe the investment we make together on girls education is the best investment to break down the cycle of poverty in the area, because when women have access to a quality education, they tend to be healthier, participate more in the formal labor market, earn higher incomes, have fewer children, marry at a later age, and enable better health care and education for their children, should they choose to become mothers. All these factors combined can help uplift households, communities, and nations out of poverty.