Alain Rouveure reads with children in front of a painted mural wall at a school in Nepal, one boy holding a ruler and another holding a new exercise book

Education & Health

Education is the way out of poverty.

In Nepal, even government schools expect a family to pay for uniform, books and pencils. For families already struggling to eat, school is the first thing to go.

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School isn’t free, even at a government school.

Every school in Nepal, including government schools, expects a child to arrive with their own uniform, books, notebooks and pencils. In rural areas, where most families are already struggling to survive, education ends up last on the list of priorities.

ARNF steps in directly: paying for schooling, uniform and stationery so that cost stops being the reason a child is kept at home.

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vulnerable children given security, full education and health support

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orphans from rural Nepal that ARNF mentors

A boy grinning at the camera, a tika of rice and vermilion on his forehead
One of the children ARNF sponsors at school in Kavre District.

There’s no National Health Service in Nepal.

Sickness in the family can be a financial catastrophe. Without state healthcare, many families sell their land and their home just to pay a medical bill.

There are now laws against child labour, but hardship still pushes children out of school and, in the worst cases, towards trafficking. Keeping a family solvent is part of keeping a child safe.

A father and mother stand with their young son and baby daughter inside their home in Nepal
A family in Kavre District. One illness, without insurance, can cost a family its land.
A girl in a red and blue Namo Buddha school uniform, wearing her school ID card, standing in the school yard

Namo Buddha Higher Secondary School

Alain Rouveure is Health and Education Adviser to this school, set in rural Kavre District, two hours from Kathmandu.

Many of the disadvantaged children ARNF sponsors study here, because the school provides hostel places in a healthy, secure environment.

3rd best grades for education excellence, out of more than 400 schools in the district

What you give, what they get

  • £10

    Black leather school shoes, or a school bag

  • £20

    Basic school uniform for a government school

  • £25

    Books, notebooks and stationery items

  • £90

    Repaint a whole classroom

  • £95

    One set of school bench and desk, for 4 students

  • £190

    One set of bunk beds, including 2 sets of linen

The difference you make

£1,000/year

Or £84 a month by standing order. Pays for one child’s education as a Day Student, including all books, notebooks and pencils.

£1,450/year

Or £121 a month by standing order. Pays for one child’s education as a Boarder Student, including all stationery.

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