Hello all, Greetings! For the 2019-2020 school year, we are funding 56 private-school scholarships for Dalit (“Untouchable”) caste children from two villages in Nepal. Since Nepal is one of the poorest of countries, these low-caste kids are among the neediest of the needy. Since government schools are notoriously dysfunctional in Nepal, a private school education […]
To Our Contributors and Other Interested Folks: On behalf of our board, here is our yearly Himalayan Village Fund update. Forgive me if I include some familiar factual information: this message may go out to some recipients who know little about us. This is our seventh year of funding private school scholarships for Dalit (untouchable) […]
To our donors: In line with our intention to stay as directly and personally involved with our projects as possible, we want to provide an update on how your donations have been spent. In April of 2016, we added 4 new students in each village. The 2016 Dhital School Scholarship Class. The 2016 Kaskikot School […]
To our donors: In an effort to stay as involved with our projects as possible, two HVF board members, Greg Thoma and Milton Burke, made a trip in December 2015 to Nepal to take a close look at our scholarship programs in the two villages there. (We traveled at our own expense). We never could have […]
