Every year The Small World supports girls who reside in some of the most remote villages in Solukhumbu by housing them in our hostel. Along with the financial challenges, girls from these areas are even more impacted as the locations of schools after grade 10 become hours, and even, days walks away from the villages.

This hostel and tuition support make it possible for these girls to continue their education at the most critical time to prevent them from dropping out. It is our belief that change begins with these girls as they become role models and leaders for their communities.

The empowerment of education changes lives because educated women reinvest up to 90% of their income into their family and communities.

The students from the Putney Student Travel got the wonderful opportunity to be able to go and visit this hostel. There they were able to forge lasting friendships, experience the beauty of Nepal and create a memories that will stay with them for a lifetime. Because of the immense impact of the trip on their lives, they longed to help the girls they met and thus launched this fundraiser to support! We hope you join them in their mission!