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Name :
Timila Prajapati
Birthday :
18/10/ 1993
Class :
Seven
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Father is a casual worker.
Mother is a housewife and casual worker.
She has one sister but no brothers, her grandmother lives with
the family.
The extended family lives in Thimi, 8 kilometers from Kathmandu.
She is in class six of our school, she is a nice polite girl and
she is a guide and likes games. Her favorite subject is science.
Her parents go to the Temple to pray every morning...
Timila Prajapati lives in the village of Thimi which is
traditionally where pottery, mask making and farming were the
main employment. Potters have their wheels outside their homes
and dry the pots in the sun; when there are enough they surround
them with straw and ash making a “ haystack”. This is then lit
and the mound smolders for three to four days to fire the pots.
Farming is another occupation; vegetables and rice are grown in
the very fertile soil and the farmers get the early morning bus
to take their produce to the market in Kathmandu or to big
hotels. As machine pots are now sold cheaply not so many pots
are sold so villagers are making furniture and looking for other
employment. There are two carpet factories in Thimi and the
owners are doing their best to give workers a healthy
environment to live in with medical aid when needed.
Your sponsorship allows Timila to be educated in English, Maths,
Science and Computer Studies and enables her to stay in
education until her 15th birthday which is very important as
sometimes in Nepal the girl leaves school at 12 years of age to
look after other siblings or grandparents and, they therefore
does not get the opportunity to have successful employment or go
on to further education. Some of our sponsored students have
already completed their secondary education and are studying at
university to become lawyers and doctors as well as engineers
and teachers.
As well as schooling we sponsor a Goat Project donating a goat
to a family who are then able to mate it and create their own
small herd of goats. They are able to sell the milk, cheese and
meat giving them an income. We are very proud of our Nepalese
culture and traditions and make sure that students participate
in religious festivals and traditions wearing their traditional
dress. We are proud that we are able to admit children with
minor disabilities to our school and we work closely with the
disabled school in Thimi. We are keen to look after our village
and undertake projects like “Keep Thimi Tidy “ when our students
went round the village collecting all rubbish, sweeping the
streets and talking to people about environmental issue.
I enclose a list of donation items should you or your friends be
interested and a scale of fees that would be required to educate
a child. Not only does this sum pay for the child’s schooling
but it also pays for a school uniform and their exercise books.
Our school works closely with the local health centre to improve
health care and we are doing our best to improve conditions in
the local carpet factories. |
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