The Gurkha Army is a British (there is also an Indian) Regiment greatly respected around the world for the valor in which many Nepalis serve proudly to this day. Yet, there are as many as 15,000 Nepalis who have been recruited by the Russian Army to fight their war against Ukraine! How can Nepalis be...
ANSWER’S 2024 Spring tour will be April 12-27. We apologize for the lateness of this announcement as a number of considerations had to be factored in, not the least of which is that a delegation of board members and volunteers about to visit Nepal as well as a party of trekkers headed by one of...
MBBS refers to “Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery,” in other words, medical school. In Nepal medical school is a 5.5 year program that can begin after Grade 12. In order to enroll in MBBS, students need to pass a very difficult entrance exam, and ANSWER students must score high enough on the exam to...
Student letters will be mailed to sponsors in early September. The dates on your student letters will vary depending on when the Nepal staff were able to visit them, so please understand by the time you receive your letter it may have been written a couple months ago. If you have not received an envelope from us...
This is a story about the power of ANSWER! One fall day in 2010 we had a fascinating speaker at our Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Phoenix, Arizona. After the service, my husband and I (Dave and Bonnie Cunningham) rushed to the back of the sanctuary to meet ANSWER Founder, Earle Canfield and select this card...
We hope it is user friendly and answers any questions you may have. Please give us your feedback on the layout and content. We have two wonderful volunteers (Chris in the USA and Arman in Nepal) who will be maintaining the website and updating the content. You can view photos and videos from Nepal, find...
During the past 3 years of the covid pandemic, despite school closures, virtual classes, postponed exams, job loss, and family crises, our ANSWER students have persevered by attending virtual classes using their parents’ cell phones since they lacked computers and Wi-Fi in their homes! While those in the primary and secondary classes advanced year by...
For years we have been lauding plaudits on our students. In fact, considering that all of these students are from highly disadvantaged backgrounds, I have maintained that no other charity or organization anywhere can match our success rate. Finally, I asked our co-director Sanoj Mali in Nepal to start tabulating results, so all can know,...
Six sponsors from Eastshore Unitarian Church in Bellevue WA are coming to Nepal in late March. The Delegation is led by Doug Strombom as well as Barb Clagett, both of whom have visited Nepal with ANSWER before. Most will spend a week in Nepal meeting their students, traveling to Pokhara, and visiting a few...
The Western or Gregorian calendar that we use today was introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII to address the shortcomings of the Julian Calendar. However, it still took England 170 years to sign on to it! Today, only four countries have not adopted the Western or Gregorian calendar: Afghanistan and Iran (which use the Solar Hijri calendar),...
