About 10 years ago some twenty Spokane UUs began to sponsor the education of a Nepalese child through ANSWER. The program is designed to educate the next leaders of Nepal. We wrote letters to our students twice a year and received back art work, grade reports, and letters in English. In 2017, Dan and I visited our first student, Smirti, when she was about to graduate from high school. She independently pursued a nursing career. While we were there we started to sponsor another girl, Aashsharya, who is now in high school in Pokhara. Communication is much easier with email! On our trip we also met another vibrant young woman, Pabitra, who was starting law school as an ANSWER student sponsored by other UUs from Arizona. This spring Pabitra received an award for having the highest ranking in her law school class from the Prime Minister of Nepal!

More sponsors are needed at this time. Please visit www.answernepal.org to read about Pabitra’s success in the news section and to see the other future leaders of Nepal who also need support.