Nisha Tamang Memorial Fund for Scholarships

PHASE’s staff nurse Nisha, who died last August, was hardworking, sincere and committed to serving the poor and needy people. She had left an easy job of instructor in a medical college to work with PHASE Nepal in remote Sirdibas VDC, Gorkha district that was badly affected by the earthquake that hit Nepal in April 2015. On 8^th August, 2016 Nisha was on duty accompanying a young mother named Preeti and her 5 day old baby on their journey to hospital: The women had a serious postpartum infection and the baby had a fever. Both were being airlifted to Kathmandu for further treatment. Three other family members of the new mother were also on board. Tragically, due to bad weather and poor visibility, the helicopter crashed and all the passengers including Nisha died in the crash.

Nisha always gave importance to education and had promised her younger brother to put him through college. To honour Nisha’s memory, PHASE Nepal decided to set up a fund to commemorate her commitment, sincerity and dedication towards education. The fund will be utilized to educate under privileged and needy children from Nisha's home village or from the village in which she was working. All of the staff at PHASE Nepal donated one day of salary towards setting up the fund which amounted to Nrs 260,305/ (US $ 2600).  $675/ has been raised from GlobalGiving and Virgin Money Giving in the UK has raised 1752 pounds. PHASE Nepal hopes to collect US$25,000/- which will enable under privileged children to gain education. But even after 9 months, sufficent fund has not been raised to fulfill the objective. PHASE Nepal has planned to donate 100,000/- (Nepali Rupees) to Laxmi daughter of Preeti, lactating mother who died in the crash for her education and the decision on utilization of remaining fund will be done in the immediate future. PHASE Nepal is still expecting additional fund and requests all the generous donors to kindly donate towards a noble cause of educating under privileged children in memory of Nisha.