Will you please contribute to bring Nepali children back to school?
We are facing the biggest hunger and education crisis in history. For Nepali children it is dire.
Already struggling in poverty and lacking infrastructure, school is difficult to access on a normal day for families in rural areas. Day-laborers and migrant workers from remote villages are left without food for their families to survive.
The majority of the students come from families who rely on subsistence farming and fall well below the poverty line established by the Nepali government living on less than $2 per day.
Villages in this area lack internet connection, and in person learning was canceled for roughly one year as Nepal endured their second wave of Covid. This has left education out of reach for children in the region, which already had the highest percentage of students out of school in the country.
The Humla District, is Nepal’s most impoverished district with one of the lowest female literacy rates (24%) in the world.
Food is a strong incentive for families to send their children back to school, especially for girls. When a child could spend their time working or caring for siblings, the choice isn’t always easy. But continued education and improved nutrition have a direct effect on the overall wellbeing of individuals, families, communities and countries, further equipping them to break free from the poverty cycle.
Simply put, children cannot learn if they are hungry and malnourished.
Middle World Alliance (MWA) aims to provide three meals, seven days a week, for 50 children at the Siddhartha School.
To meet this basic necessity, $8,000 (USD) is needed to provide 50 children with:
Lentils
Rice
Milk
Eggs
Potatoes
Vegetables
Roti (Bread)
Small Amount of Chicken or Mutton
“Please help our children to return to school.”
— Lal Bahadur, Main teacher of Siddhartha School
The sooner we reach this goal, the sooner children can return to school!
Food is a basic human right
Thank you!
Heidi Harding
Co-founder and President of MWA