Child sponsorship - Tsering's story

ASIA works in child sponsorship to help the poorest children, to give them the chance to grow up without forgetting their own cultural roots. Child sponsorship creates a real exchange of emotions through letters and drawings between the child who is helped and the donor. Tsering is one of the children, today a woman, sponsored by ASIA and who thanks to the help of donors has managed to become an adult aware of her own abilities.

Tsering is 22 years old and is attending the last year of Business Administration; she is also doing an internship in a bank in Kathmandu. She is very diligent, active and intelligent.

The life of Tsering and her family is not very easy: at 16 she lost her mother and had difficulty accepting this bereavement. The economic conditions have always been very humble, since her father spent all the savings to treat Tsering's mother and her younger sister.

At present her father suffers from depression and cannot walk well, he needs to take medicines constantly. Tsering's sister takes care of her father and also of their uncle (her mother's brother).

Tsering attended the Manasarovar school (Kathmandu) and is sponsored by a generous ASIA donor who has been helping her for 13 years.

Following the 2015 earthquake Tsering lives with her father and sister in a temporary dwelling.

As soon as she graduates this young woman will go to work, she has already sent two applications and there are good chances that she will get a job in a bank because her average marks are very high.

Tsering would like to continue her studies but being the elder sister and having an ailing father, she has to worry about providing economic support for her family. She wishes to guarantee her father the best possible care and for her family she would like a real home.