What is ANSWER?

American-Nepali Students’ and Women’s Educational Relief was founded in 2001 after obtaining excellent results with out own little “street girl”, Uma, whom we placed in a private school in Kathmandu. After 3 years, she had become fluent in English, had made up for being placed back two years initially, and was obtaining top marks. From wanting to simply learn to read and count, she began to feel she wanted to be a doctor. Today, Uma is in nursing school along with other young women in our program. Nine years after founding and many refinements, we have over 500 children in 100 schools and colleges all over Nepal. All of our children are college bound. To date, ALL (80 for 80) of our children who have taken the High School Graduation (SLC) exam have passed with flying colors and gone on to college and into careers.

ANSWER is a nonprofit, non-partisan, non-religious organization that believes in empowering low caste children by introducing them to quality education. Education for us does not mean literacy nor basic education, but 12-15 years of education through college with careful academic and career counseling (which we alone provide–an otherwise unknown entity in Nepal). Our mission is to educate children from the lowest castes and provide them with real lifelong careers so that they will be come the vanguard for real change in Nepal. They will be the ones pushing for universal, compulsory education and government scholarships, etc.