Sarswati Foundation |
SUBHASH GHIMIRE FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN
Subhash is the founder and executive chairman of the Sarswati Foundation. After having spent four months in helping war affected kids in Arupokhari, a remote village in western Nepal, he started the foundation to further the cause and help war affected kids attend school. He worked with Today’s Youth Asia, a youth-led organization in Kathmandu Nepal from 2003-2006 and started school representative media training for school students in 2003, which is now running successfully in its seventh year. Subhash brings to the Sarswati Foundation a replicable model of community development through youth involvement.
Subhash won the Clinton Global Initiative Outstanding Commitment Award in 2010 to build the first peace school in Arupokhari, Nepal. He is also the founder of Sarswati Peace School. Subhash won the prestigious Davis Projects for Peace grant of $10,000 to carry out a summer camp for war-affected children in Arupokhari, a remote village in western Nepal in 2009. He also established a library with more than 1,600 books and two computers in Darbar Secondary School in Arupokhari where he started his education.
Subhash is graduated from St. Olaf College in Minnesota, USA in May 2010. He also writes on south Asian issues for the Huffington Post. He is also a senior fellow at Humanity in Action (HIA) and was part of the Berlin 2010 HIA SUmmer Fellowship Program.Subhash aspires to catalyze youth-led movements in education, health, democracy and human rights issues in Nepal.
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Subhash won the Clinton Global Initiative Outstanding Commitment Award in 2010 to build the first peace school in Arupokhari, Nepal. He is also the founder of Sarswati Peace School. Subhash won the prestigious Davis Projects for Peace grant of $10,000 to carry out a summer camp for war-affected children in Arupokhari, a remote village in western Nepal in 2009. He also established a library with more than 1,600 books and two computers in Darbar Secondary School in Arupokhari where he started his education.
Subhash is graduated from St. Olaf College in Minnesota, USA in May 2010. He also writes on south Asian issues for the Huffington Post. He is also a senior fellow at Humanity in Action (HIA) and was part of the Berlin 2010 HIA SUmmer Fellowship Program.Subhash aspires to catalyze youth-led movements in education, health, democracy and human rights issues in Nepal.
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