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28 Mar 2017 | Blog

Scholarship helps girls get an education

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Scholarship holders with ICIMOD staff and school teacher

“Nearly 75% of our students are from poor and marginalized families. Some of these families migrated to Kathmandu after the devastating earthquake of 2015,” says Shyam Kaji Mahat, headmaster of Jana Vikash High School, a government-run school in Lalitpur.

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