Posted by: C..Ronaldo November 22, 2011
Why we tend to overburden ourselves for education instead of taking student loan from Nepal like Indians?
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One of my best fren's cousin is here in states and he was such a talent guy, at school in SLC, he was expected to be in the Board. He was from near by my town and we all used to be told to get motivated by him. When I came to the states, one of the person that I contacted was him and I could hardly remember anything beside he was giving me an advice to try to be fluent in speaking English which will be easy to get the job. I think we never had a contact as I knew him as he was my fren's cousin. Couple of years ago, everyone was shocked as he quit school. Imagine a person who never used to be involve in anything rather than studying, quit the school. No one knew. My fren back home didn't knew the reason also. But as far my friend believe that he didn't had the fund to continue school. May be he had asked money from back home and he didn't get that. You can go 1 semester, 2, 3, 4 but not anymore if you have no source of money. May be his school was one of the expensive one like ofcourse like as it is normal to be the cost annually around 14 - 20 grand. His parents was from a good middle class family who had a good business, could simply afford sending atleast 20 thousand dollar, and he is the only son beside may be he has couple of sisters.

I met his brother in law last time when I was in Nepal and he asked me, "Did you ever asked money from you dad to support you?'
I said; Yeah 2 times already 4 lakh each and I told him, I worked as long as I could and this was beyond my capacity and there was no option to get support from home or either to quit school.
He replied; "hamro falna le ni chadyo padhai, khoi kina ho, sayad paisa chaheko thyo hola, padhna pugena hola, ghar ma vanna sakena hola ki buda le pathaediyena hola, tehi  vayera hola."

I told him, yeah it could be the reason. I would  also have to quit my scholl if I didn't got money from Nepal. Yes, it was true that I couldn't finish seriously. And I was not in intension to go to Minnesotta or where my collegue that I met at Michigan had finished from Birghimon University, where you gotta proclaim your self as a christian in-order to join the college and the annual fee was only 3000$. I went this time Nepal too and my friend dad told me that as I finished my school and have been in Nepal 3 times but his son is never back almost in a decade as he had quit school.

I don't know what could be the excat reason that such a smart guy quit the scholl but financiall factor must have played a huge factor. 
So basically I am trying to prove that we certainly need to educate our parents in back home and our community that we do need some financiall support in order to finish our school. 
when i asked money for the 2nd time, my mum told me that the guy from other town had sent almost 20 lakh so far. I told my mum, can you give me his no, let me calll him and ask him how the hell he had send that amount of money and going to school. I called him and found that he was studying Nursing and he was about to get his RN from community college. Now just imagine, he is paying 5000$ a year in community college and I am paying 20,000$ a year at university. In 2 and a half year, I paid 50,000$ to graduate from university and he paid 12500$ from communiyty college. I paid 37500$ extra compared to him over 2 n half years. 
I told my mum so n so was the case.
 

Alright to all those students, it is reall tough but no matter what don't give up schooling. There are 100's of door's opened after your school.
I have one wish, a plan, that 1 day I will be able to open a banking center where we could let the students like us who suffered so much at the time of school to get loan so that will provide atleast something to add up in paying the tuition fee.
My present city, collected 1 million dollar to build so & so. Imagine if we can raise 1 million dollar to build so & so, why can't we rasie 1 million dollar to create a banking loan where the needy students can borrow some loan  and they will pay back and the cycle goes on. Imagine only 2000$ loan to one people means 500 students can borrow 2000$ to support his school. That is just a simple idea that I have in my mind. Hopefully, I will try my best to do something for the students to be able to take some loans ... .. ..  

alright guys, our society is like this in back home, falna ko chora le ta 60 lakh pathayo re, wo wosko chori le ta mahina ma 2 lakh kamawocha re. . . . kamawoni vayo ni DV parera gayepachi vannu vanda aru wopaya k cha ra daju bhai

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