Entries Tagged as 'language'

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Bindhaya: The First Little Sister

Yesterday we visited with and briefly interviewed one party to the Creation Story of the Little Sisters Fund.
It’s a sweet story that I don’t want to spoil here, but Bindhaya was the first girl that Trevor Patzer was introduced to after he asked Usha Acharya how he might help the country of Nepal.
We had met [...]

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Language Arts

Most of the formal education in Nepal takes place in English–this is true (we understand) whether students are in government schools or private schools. Nepali language study is the lone exception.
The Little Sisters Fund girls are all products of this system, and for the most part, the older ones particularly can communicate reasonably well in English. [...]