The Girls Education Project in Rural Nepal

The Girl’s Education Project (2014-2015)

We started the project from Bhagawatpur village panchayat and were providing the support to 21 girls only but now we are working with three village panchayats (Bhagawatpur, Mahadeva and Bathanaha) in Saptari district and providing the support to 91 girls.

This is what we have achieved during the year;

• 91 girls are in the scheme
• 81% of girls are attending school regularly comparing with last year’s 68% only
• 38 girls completed primary schooling
• 2 girls completed lower secondary schooling
• 14 Volunteers who are local people monitoring the girls in the scheme
• We are working with 12 government schools in the panchayats

Note: Regular schooling is 75% of school days or above, primary schooling (5-11 years) and lower secondary (11-14 years).

We believe, more local volunteers monitoring the girls locally and frequent family visits are the main contributing factors for this improvement. School dropout rate for girls in the community is also high and irregular schooling is one of the factors. Therefore NVF aims to achieve a 95% or above attendance in the years ahead.

Considering the number of people benefiting from the project’s activity and the money spent during the year, NVF is one of the most efficient UK based organisation working overseas. You should feel great to support such an organisation.

We encourage a donation of £4 a month which will keep a girl in school for a whole year.

[NVF’s Trustees annual report for the year 2014- 2015 will be available to read soon at http://www.nvf.org.uk/news-and-reports ]