Father is a carpet weaver and works at the local carpet factory.

Mother is a housewife and helps with carpet weaving at the same place.

She has one brother and her grandparents live in a remote village.

The family live in Thimi, 8 kilometers from Kathmandu.

She is in class one of our school, she is a nice polite girl and likes games. Her favorite subject is English. Her parents go to the Temple to pray every morning.

Sima Lama lives in the village of Thimi which is where pottery, mask making and farming were traditionally 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 take 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 Sima to be educated in English, Maths, Science and Computer Studies and enables her to stay in education until her 15th birthday which is very important as sometimes in Nepal the girl 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 sponsored students have already completed their secondary education and are studying at university to 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.