Be part of the change you want to see.

Will you help a vulnerable girl like Izna* build a better future?

Girls born into poor families in Nepal face many challenges. Poverty, discrimination, forced marriage and domestic abuse. But for girls with disabilities, like Izna, who is deaf, life is even harder and the risks much greater.

It's not right, but it CAN change.

Donate today to help match a girl like Izna with a VSO expert volunteer for life-changing support. With your help, another girl who was forced out of school can receive the education she urgently needs to build a better future.

£10 a month could help provide specialist training to teachers so girls who’ve been forced to leave can go back into education.

Suraj Ratna Shakya

£15 a month could enable a VSO volunteer to work with a girl's community to tackle discrimination and achieve lasting change.

Volunteer with a girl with cerebral palsy, in a VSO provided wheelchair

Suraj Shakya

£25 a month could help provide a wheelchair or prosthesis so a girl with disabilities can access the classroom.

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Suraj Shakya

£25 could help match a VSO volunteer with a girl who’s been forced out of school to help her gain life-changing skills.

£50 could help provide a girl who is deaf with support to learn sign language and return to school.

Suraj Shakya

£100 could help teachers receive specialist training from a VSO volunteer so they can better support vulnerable girls.

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A volunteer teaches Inza, who was born with a hearing impairment, sign-language

Help vulnerable girls like Izna who are missing out on an education

In Nepal, girls from poor families are forced to leave school early without completing their education. For as many as 1.3 million girls**, the next step is marriage. It’s not their choice. Sadly, girls with disabilities like Izna often can’t enrol in school at all due to discrimination and insufficent support to meet their needs.

Izna was born deaf and has lived a deeply isolated life. She was enrolled in a school but was forced to leave because her teachers couldn’t communicate with her. Even though she is bright and eager to learn, she was forced to stay at home, cooking, cleaning and feeding the cattle. With no one to teach her sign language, Izna made up her own signs, but she was unable to communicate with anyone outside her family.

Izna could have continued living in complete isolation, but thanks to supporters like you Izna is now attending VSO volunteer led classes designed to help girls back into education.

Will you help another girl like Izna receive the education she needs to build a better future?

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*Names were changed to protect identity.

**https://www.unicef.org/media/88831/file/Child-marriage-Nepal-profile-2019.pdf

Here is how every £1 is spent

For every £1 raised, 85p goes towards tackling poverty and 15p towards raising the next £1

We value every gift that you give, and will always put it straight to work as quickly as we can. In 2023-24, 85p of every £1 you gave went directly towards tackling poverty worldwide.15p was spent on the day-to-day running of the charity and raising the next £1 so that we can help even more people this year.

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