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The Nepal Project:
Empower Nepali Girls
It is important for our scholarly work to make an impact on the community. Empower Nepali Girls, is an example where one of our PhD graduates, Dr Kiran Regmi, and her UNE supervisor, Professor Jeffrey Kottler, became involved in improving the life circumstances of women, and in particular disadvantaged girls in Nepal. Below is their story about how their project is assisting young girls by providing them access to education.
If you would like to know more about the Nepal project please feel free to contact Professor Jeffrey Kottler.
UNE Health Professor Jeffrey Kottler Supports At-Risk Girls in Nepal
'Ten years ago, one of my Ph.D. students at UNE, Kiran Regmi, was doing research in Nepal on maternal mortality. While supervising her qualitative interviews in the field, I learned of the 12,000 girls each year that were disappearing into sex slavery because of poverty and neglect. Kiran and I decided to collaborate beyond our research to begin a foundation that provides educational scholarships for at-risk, lower caste girls in remote regions of the country. We began by sponsoring one girl and the project has since grown to support 103 girls in 8 villages around the country. The youngest scholarship recipient is 5 years old and our eldest, our first girl, is now attending university and hopes someday to become a professor.
'Most of our volunteers and team members come from all throughout Australia and North America, including staff and students from UNE.'
Jeffrey Kottler
Learn more about our project at www.EmpowerNepaliGirls.org