EDUCATION: SAMPLE PROJECTS
Vocational & Technical Training Scholarships
Organization: Minority Focus
Project Objective: to provide scholarships for youth from underprivileged backgrounds
In brief: Minority Focus is a Nepal-based, Nepali-led organization founded by Christian professionals committed to helping needy youth pursue education in the technical fields. Founded several decades ago, Minority Focus is experienced and qualified to screen applicants, secure scholarships, channel funds for tuition and fees, and monitor student progress. Sponsorships are sourced both locally and from abroad. Since our partnership with Minority Focus began in 2022, DDHCFN has helped to educate over a dozen deserving young people. Samples of their degrees include: health assistant (3 yrs); civil engineering (3 yrs); animal health science (18 mo).
“Our Study Place” After-School Centers
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Organization: Console Mission
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Project Objective: to motivate rural children to remain in school, and to assist those who lack academic and emotional support
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In brief: Console Mission, a Nepali charitable organization registered in 2010, serves underprivileged children and their communities. This long-time DDHCFN partner works in rugged South Lalitpur, where many families struggle to pay the minimal costs required to keep their children in school. Often the burden is too much, resulting in daughters married off early or sons dropping out of school to work. DDHCFN has partnered with Console Mission for years to provide children’s scholarships, as well as to address the issue of lack of parental help at home with schoolwork. Console Mission conducts a unique project called “Our Study Place,” establishing community-based after-school sites where volunteers (often older students) offer tutoring and assistance to children in need, helping to keep them in school.