Who are we?

The Nepal England Education Support charity was established after our founder Joanna Luscombe-whyte, visited Vinayak Shksha Niketan School, in the village of Thimi in Nepal and volunteered at the school to help children learn English.  Joanna started to sponsor some poor children in the village who could not afford to go to school and when she returned to the UK she persuaded her friends and family to do the same.  As the sponsorship grew it became clear that the group needed to form as a charity to support growth of the sponsorship program under a more formal set of guidelines.  Together with the original Trustees Joanna founded a charity called Nepal England Education Support to promote the sponsorship.  Several of our sponsors and Trustees have visited the school over the years since then to see for themselves the impact that a small amount of money could have on the future of children. 

Over the years since then the school has grown into a vibrant place for education and safety for the children of the village, it has established itself as a center for the community and the charity has expanded into other smaller projects to support the village and its close-knit community.

Each sponsor becomes a pen friend to the child they support and receives annual school reports to monitor progress, some of our sponsors have continued to support the children after they leave school, helping them to finance a place at college and later even through medical school and nursing college.  The young people who have benefited from this support have gone on to be professional adults, contributing to the future of Nepal and their village, school and family.