‘Sponsor a Child’ Scheme informationNew Futures Nepal supports children living in the Hope Centre in Kathmandu, Nepal and Hornbeam House, Kalimpong, India. The children living in the homes are all disadvantaged and are either orphaned, abandoned or disabled. They are of Nepali origin and come from some of the poorest hill communities in the Nepalese and India Himalaya. Without our help they would have little hope for the future.
One of the best ways to secure a brighter future for the children is to ensure they receive an education, as this is their ‘ticket to a better life’, increasing their employment prospects as self sufficient adults.
Education in Nepal is not state funded, and therefore not accessible to everyone, only those who are able to pay the school fees etc are able to receive an education.
In order to help secure an education for the children we run the ‘sponsor a child’ scheme in which you can pledge to help sponsor a child’s education.
As little as £10 per month can help us to educate a child. The money is used to fund their education, provide their books and school uniforms.
  Our ‘sponsor a child’ scheme lets you choose the sex of the child you wish to support. After completing our ‘sponsor a child’ donation/standing order form we will nominate a child for you to support and send you information with a picture of the child you will be supporting. Following this, in the summer of each year, you will receive a written report from the manager of either the Hope Centre or Hornbeam House depending on where your sponsored child lives. These reports from Betty Thapa or Tilak Shrestha will tell you about your child’s progress, general well being, activities and health over the past year. Our sponsors love to hear how the children are progressing and where possible we try to include photographs.
We do not encourage direct contact with the child you sponsor as we have found this can cause inequalities within the home and we prefer sponsors to remain anonymous. However, when the child becomes an independent adult and leaves the home there will be the opportunity, if both you and the young adult wish, to make contact. At this point you will also be given the opportunity to sponsor another child or, if you prefer and it is appropriate, to continue to sponsor your young adult if they decide to enter higher education.
If you are interested in joining this scheme please;
So far the scheme has generated a lot of interest. However we continue to need new sponsors to ensure all of the children receive equal access to education.
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'Sponsoring a Child' can help dreams come true The children continue to work hard in their school studies and over the years have achieved good grades in their end of year exams. Many now have achieved high distinction grades. This is all down to the support they get from your donations and the work of the managers in both the Hope Centre and Hornbeam House homes.
This year, 2009, is an important year for the two older girls at the Hope Centre in Kathmandu. The girls were in the original group of children we found in such difficult conditions in 2002. They recently successfully passed, with good grades, their final year School Leavers Certificate which they took in April.
Tilak and Ram are planning with both girls for their future. We are in the process of investigating the cost for courses and college placement opportunities in Kathmandu.We will be working closely with the Hope Centre to seek appropriate ways to ease both girls into independent adult life and to facilitate achievement of their future careers and dreams, the very dreams that sponsoring a child can help come true.
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