Kathmandu, Mar. 27:A French national Fabrice de Villeneuve has provided educational support to 24 children of poor and backward families of Buddhi Village Development Committee of Kapilvastu district.

The French national has decided to bear all the costs of 24 students for their education upto secondary level.

Now those 24 students are studying in Residential Boarding School in Buddhi VDC.

The students who are being supported are aged between five and ten.   Fabrice has already announced to provide support for about 100 students in   that village within a period for one year.

Fabrice, a French businessman, decided to support poor and backward children’s education when he visited Nepal last year.

He also said that he would seek more funds for school sponsorship to other children, as well and expand this programme to other villages.

Students were selected for school sponsorship on the basis of financial position and social background of their parents.

Mahendra Shrestha, who is coordinating the sponsorship programme, said the objective of the school sponsorship programme is to encourage the poor and backward community in the Buddhi village of Kapilvastu district to send their children to school.

Buddhi VDC is one of the backward villages of Kapilvastu district where majority of the people are poor and illiterate.