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Father is a driver and drives school bus .
Mother is a housewife and helps in the family.
He has an elder brother and his grandparents are potters in the family
business.
The extended family live in Thimi 8 kilometers from Kathmandu .
He is in class Skg of our school, he is a nice boy and he likes games.
His favorite subject is English. His parents go to the Temple to pray
every morning..
Royal Prajapati lives in the village of Thimi which is traditionally
where pottery, mask making and farming were the main employment. Potters
have their wheels outside their homes and dry the pots in the sun; when
there are enough they surround them with straw and ash making a “
haystack”. This is then lit and the mound smolders for three to four
days to fire the pots. Farming is another occupation; vegetables and
rice are grown in the very fertile soil and the farmers get the early
morning bus to sell their produce to the market in Kathmandu or to big
hotels. As machine pots are now sold cheaply and not so many pots are
sold villagers are making furniture and looking for other employment.
There are two carpet factories in Thimi and the owners are doing their
best to give workers a healthy environment to live in with medical aid
when needed.
Your sponsorship allows Royal to be educated in English, Maths, Science
and Computer Studies and enables his to stay in education until his 15th
birthday which is very important as sometimes in Nepal the child leaves
school at 12 years of age to look after other siblings or grandparents
and they therefore does not get the opportunity to have successful
employment or go on to further education. Some of our children have
already completed high school education and become lawyers and doctors
as well as engineers and teachers.
As well as schooling we sponsor a Goat Project donating a goat to a
family who are then able to mate it and create their own small herd of
goats. They are able to sell the milk, cheese and meat giving them an
income. We are very proud of our Nepalese culture and traditions and
make sure that students participate in religious festivals and
traditions wearing their traditional dress. We are proud that we are
able to admit children with minor disabilities to our school and we work
closely with the disabled school in Thimi. We are keen to look after our
village and undertake projects like “Keep Thimi Tidy “ when our students
went round the village collecting all rubbish, sweeping the streets and
talking to people about environmental issue.
I enclose a list of donation items should you or your friends be
interested and a scale of fees that would be required to educate a
child. Not only does this sum pay for the child’s schooling but it also
pays for a school uniform and their exercise books.
Our school works closely with the local health centre to improve health
care and we are doing our best to improve conditions in the local carpet
factories. |