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illiteracy and poverty in Nepal, by allowing some of the
poorest children to get an education. Read these pages,
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to watch a short video about the work of Namaste Banepa.
Anita is 13 years old and
is in class 3 of Shree Swoiat Ganesh Primary School, where
here brother younger brother also attends school. Being very
poor, Anita’s father works as a farm labourer to make
ends meet.
Although neither of her
parents went to school they started sending Anita when she
was 10 years old. However, the financial burden was too great
especially when her younger brother also wanted to go and
they were planning to withdraw her when Namaste Banepa stepped
in.
As Anita wants to
be a teacher when she completes school she knows she will
have to study hard in order to make up for the years of education
she has lost. Encouragingly her teacher reports that Anita’
s favourate subject is English and that she is an excellent
student who is top of her class.
"The
Convention on the Rights of the Child
adopted by the United Nations in 1989 reaffirms
that all children have rights that must be respected,
protected and promoted. Article 28 states that
"All children have a right to education".
In some places around the world, this just does
not happen."
