OUR APPROACH
Inner-city poverty presents unique challenges for our girls and their families. The range of social services and support we provide is vital to each girl’s ability to gain the most out of her sponsored education. By forging strong bonds between our staff and our girls, along with their mothers, we can affect lasting, beneficial change. Working in concert with a girl’s valued sponsor, the rewards can be truly life-changing.
These nurturing relationships begin when our girls are very young, often by the time they're in kindergarten. Building solid trust is a major factor toward encouraging lasting change. Most of our sponsored girls are day students, rather than boarders. This helps preserve the family structure and bolsters family engagement with education. By circumstance, though, some of our girls attend boarding school.
Our social work team in Kathmandu operates within a case-load system to make sure all our sponsored girls are carefully monitored with individual mentorship and ongoing guidance. They make routine home and school visits so that at least every girl whose family lives in the Kathmandu Valley is visited at least once a month. This home connection is invaluable as we partner with mothers to help girls gain the most from their education and solve difficult family situations.
Our social work team in Kathmandu operates within a case-load system to make sure all our sponsored girls are carefully monitored with individual mentorship and ongoing guidance. They make routine home and school visits so that at least every girl whose family lives in the Kathmandu Valley is visited at least once a month. This home connection is invaluable as we partner with mothers to help girls gain the most from their education and solve difficult family situations.
Some girls need psychosocial counseling which we organize as needed. We’re constantly trying to foster partner relationships with social welfare organizations in Kathmandu with whom we can consult and get help from on a case by case basis. If a serious family problem exists and no other alternative appears viable, we place girls into a trusted boarding school with the family’s approval.
Helping transform the lives of our girls is a generational shift that requires vigilance, careful guidance, patience and the love needed for raising children. To overcome and alleviate the devastating problems that stem from deep-rooted poverty is a daunting task not only for U.S. staff half a world away from Nepal, but also for our dedicated team in Kathmandu.
Most important is that we imbue the critical thinking skills needed for our young women to navigate the rigors of adolescence in the midst of poverty. To make good choices that help them avoid child marriage and early pregnancy. To successfully stay in school and on track, prepared for a 21st century workforce. Ultimately, we aim to help our girls and young women navigate their difficult path from childhood to successful women with decent jobs, financial independence and solid self-esteem. To become the movers and shakers and dynamic leaders of Nepal’s tomorrow.
Helping transform the lives of our girls is a generational shift that requires vigilance, careful guidance, patience and the love needed for raising children. To overcome and alleviate the devastating problems that stem from deep-rooted poverty is a daunting task not only for U.S. staff half a world away from Nepal, but also for our dedicated team in Kathmandu.
Most important is that we imbue the critical thinking skills needed for our young women to navigate the rigors of adolescence in the midst of poverty. To make good choices that help them avoid child marriage and early pregnancy. To successfully stay in school and on track, prepared for a 21st century workforce. Ultimately, we aim to help our girls and young women navigate their difficult path from childhood to successful women with decent jobs, financial independence and solid self-esteem. To become the movers and shakers and dynamic leaders of Nepal’s tomorrow.
