educational sponsorship

benefits of your sponsorship

Creates a unique bond between you and a girl living in profound poverty.

Encourages you to witness and be an integral part of the caring social network that Hands in Outreach creates in Nepal.

Fosters a meaningful relationship through letters and e-mails to build an enriching cultural network that encourages global community.

Provides children and families with the educational tools for a better life and a viable path away from an endless cycle of poverty and hopelessness.

​Inspires a young girl to believe in her ability to stay in school and gain the confidence to one day go to college and become a self-reliant woman.

Jossy Nebenzhal, a long-time HIO supporter, with two young women she sponsored: Kanchan Chauhan, a Duke University graduate, and and Sabita Santori, who is finishing her Masters in Microbiology in Nepal.

Sponsor a Nepali Girl's Education

For over 25 years, HIO has paired poor, low-caste, inner-city girls with sponsors who underwrite their long-term education from kindergarten through high school. Our sponsors currently underwrite the education of 150 girls and young women.

We encourage direct communication between our sponsors and the girls in Nepal, in order to foster global community. Over time, a lovely, ongoing relationship can develop that's very special and rewarding for everyone involved.

HIO's program of individual sponsorship has resulted in a 98% success rate for student retention. The majority of our girls begin with HIO in kindergarten and go through college, with several now in graduate school studying medicine, dentistry and law. We have a small, dedicated staff, Ram Adhikari and Palmo Tamang, who tirelessly crisscross the city making daily home and school visits. This type of outreach makes our program unique in its approach and implementation.

Our strength lies in building strong, lasting relationships with our mothers, girls and partner schools. By actively engaging with families and schools, we encourage our girls to remain in school, avoiding early marriage and pregnancy, or dropping out to take low-wage, menial jobs.

​Life for our families in Nepal is a daily struggle. Our girls and their mothers are smart, strong and brave. They’re resilient and grateful. Your help is vital for keeping many poor children off the streets. Your support makes ALL the difference and will truly change lives! 

A yearly donation of $890 covers tuition, books, uniform, healthcare and emergency family relief for a girl in one of our partner schools in Kathmandu, from kindergarten through 12th grade. A yearly donation of $500 allows a sponsorship shared with another donor.

Periodically, you'll receive progress reports, letters and updated images of your sponsored girl, and have the opportunity to correspond with her and her family via hand-delivered letters and e-mail.

We provide the care, mentoring and guidance essential for keeping a young girl on track to get an education and a pathway to a better life.

For more information about the structure and administration of HIO's sponsorship program, see About Sponsorship.

​WOULD YOU LIKE TO BECOME A SPONSOR?

Please call or send an e-mail to Ricky Bernstein, HIO Executive Director, for more information.
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ricky@handsinoutreach.org
​413.229.7993

Through the sponsorship of a girl, lives are truly changed forever.