LIDO Scholarships for 480 Orphan and Disabled Students
Lumbini Integrated Development Organization (LIDO) has distributed scholarships equivalent to NPR 8 million to 480 orphan and disabled students to increase access to schooling and support their studies.
Scholarships have been provided to poor and talented orphan and disabled students under a social responsibility programme with the support of Qatar Charity. Executive Director Sunita Belbase stated that scholarships have so far been provided to 305 orphan and disabled students.
Students between 3 and 18 years of age have received scholarship amounts ranging from a minimum of NPR 5,661 to a maximum of NPR 16,984. She informed that the scholarship amount is being provided on a trimester basis. A total of NPR 8,010,442 will be distributed as scholarship support.
On this occasion, Chief of the District Coordination Committee, Baburam Acharya, and Officer of the Education and Coordination Unit, Kapilvastu, Arjun Kunwar, were also present. On the occasion, Coordination Committee Chief Acharya stated that this scholarship programme will be beneficial for increasing access to schools and improving educational outcomes. He noted that among various reasons, poverty has led many students to drop out of school, and expressed that this scholarship support will help address that situation.
He said that rural municipalities should also support poor and underprivileged orphan students. Programme Coordinator Ram Naresh Chaudhary stated that LIDO has been providing scholarships to orphan and disabled students for a long time. The scholarship recipient students stated that the support has made their studies significantly easier.
