Sherpa Education Project

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Our Mission

The Sherpa Education Project provides the educational costs for Sherpa girls in the Solu-Khumbu (Mount Everest) region of Nepal and support for the Sherpa community with “special donor projects”.

Girls Education

Since its founding in 2010, the Sherpa Education Project has provided financial support for educating village girls in the remote Solu-Khumbu (Everest) region of Nepal. We serve families who are unable to pay the school fees, and in doing so, these girls can now receive a solid education through 12th grade.

In total, we have helped 17 students since 2010.

As in many villages in the developing world, girls are usually the last to be sent to school and at best for a few years, if at all. Yet a girl who receives an education is better prepared to get a job, to vote, and to be involved with her community.

Our girls learn to speak English as a part of their education. English is necessary for Sherpa girls to work with tourist that visit Nepal as well as provides a skill that most job opportunities require.

Education for the Sherpa girls helps an entire village by passing on what they learn to their parents (most have never been to school), to their siblings, and eventually to their own children.

When Sherpa girls receive an education, they are less likely to be subjected to sex trafficking, forced labor and youth marriage.

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Supporting Healthy Communities

The Sherpa Education Project has found additional ways to help Sherpa communities. One of our long-term projects has been providing secular education for the student monks (“tawas”) in a Buddhist Monastery in the very small and remote village of Mera. We have also stepped in to help this village and others with environmental projects such as building a consistent water supply, co-sponsoring a health clinic, and rebuilding schools and trails after devastating earthquakes.