An indelible inspiration, a champion and a hero

Usha was born to illiterate parents and at the age of nine, she walked six days from her village to Kathmandu to serve as a companion for an older cousin’s child bride. Usha was allowed to go to school during the day where she thrived. The first girl from her district to graduate college.

Usha’s keen academic and intellectual capacity qualified her for a scholarship from the Government of India. She went on to  pursue her master’s degree in economics at Delhi School of Economics and her master’s in philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Usha studied Women’s Studies at Columbia University and International Human Rights at Harvard University

Before founding LSF with Trevor in 1998, she worked at the Central Bank of Nepal, Save the Children and The Asia Foundation. Usha has authored two books and several articles on the subjects of trafficking girls in Nepal and Nepal’s educational system.

Usha oversees all the Little Sisters Fund activities in Nepal, as carried out by Education for Empowerment Program, which operates LSF programs on the ground in Nepal.