Facts and Stats according to UNICEF 2001:

The average person is 19.7 years old.
91 children and babies per 1000 under the age of 5 die.
Life expectancy at birth is 59 years.
Women have an average of 4.6 children each.
38% of the population live on less than $1.00 per day.

Facts and Stats according to The World Fact Book:

86.2% of the population is Hindu, 7.8% is Buddist, 3.8% is Islamic while Christians are listed in the remaining 2.2%.
27.6% of women over 15 years of age can read and write compared to 62.7% of men.

Asian Aid's Role

Asian Aid began sponsoring children from Nepal in the 1970s which involved sending them to schools in India. Sponsorship in Nepal began in the mid-1990s with the establishment of an ADRA funded school at Banepa ( no longer funded by ADRA ) and later with the establishment of the Asian Aid orphanage in 1998. Unfortunately the Seventh Day Adventist Church closed its only school in Nepal, resulting in Asian Aid taking over and fully funding Zenith Academy for the sake of our orphans.

To date 860 women have received corrective operations for third degree uterine prolapse, a terrible condition in which a woman's uterus hangs between her legs, inside out, with disastrous medical and social complications.

A mobile health clinic is also funded through which our staff conduct primary healthcare and referral services to poor villagers in remote areas.