The Sarswati Foundation
Subhash Ghimire has accomplished a great deal in a very short time, being the youngest of our Strategic Partners. Subhash is a senior studying political science at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, USA. He also writes on south Asian issues for the Huffington Post and is a regular columnist for My Republica, Nepal’s national daily. Subhash aspires to catalyze youth-led movements in education, health, democracy and human rights issues in Nepal.
He is the founder and executive chairman of Sarswati Foundation. Subhash was awarded a grant of $10,000 from the Davis Peace Initiative in the summer of 2009 to carry out a summer camp for war affected children in Arupokhari, a remote village in western Nepal. He also established a library with more than 1,600 books and two computers in Darbar Secondary School in Arupokhari where he started his education.After having spent four months in helping war affected kids in Arupokhari, a remote village in western Nepal, he started the foundation to further the cause and help war affected kids attend school. He worked with Today’s Youth Asia, another one of our partners, in Kathmandu Nepal from 2003-2006 and started school representative media training for school students in 2003 which is now running successfully in its sixth year. Subhash brings to the Sarswati Foundation a replicable model of community development through youth involvement.
His list of awards and recognition is impressive:
l ACI McGraw Foundation Emergency Scholarship, 2007-08.
l Datatel Scholars Foundation Scholarship, 2008-09
l Hawkinson Peace and Justice Award, 2009
l Best Delegation Award in American International Model United Nations, 2007
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The Sarswati Foundation is a youth-led organization to bring youth into action in transforming societies crippled by war, violence and poverty. Their primary focus lies in education, poverty alleviation, peace and justice in Nepal.The foundation brings out stories from the Nepalese hinterlands. People in these areas live a harsh life with very little access to basic needs, let alone modern luxuries. Students have to walk a couple of hours to reach school every day, many housewives walk an hour carrying heavy water-pots just to fetch drinking water, (and unfortunately, the water is not even clean). The Foundation , comprised of responsible young people, face the daunting challenge of nurturing their country..The Sarswati Foundation brings together the youths who have the courage to dream big and strive for positive changes in education, health, democracy and human rights.
To learn more about this dynamic group of young people, go to their Sarswati Foundation web site. If you'd like to donate to Sarswati, go to our Contact Us page, give us your info and note in the message box that your donation is for Sarswati.
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Subhash Ghimire and Lindsay Feldmeth were recipients of grants from the prestigeous Davis Peace Initiative. Subhash, one of the graduates of Today's Youth Asia, provided solar-powered computers and led a fun and educational youth camp in his village in western Nepal. The children attending the camp had at least one parent killed by violence during the Maoist-led civil war. To learn about Lindsay's project, the Kathmandu Music Festival for Peace, click here.
