School in a Bag (SIAB) is a UK-based educational charity that provides SchoolBags filled with essential learning materials to disadvantaged, disaster-affected and displaced children around the world.

A SchoolBag is a simple but effective solution, containing resources that enable a child to write, draw, calculate, express themselves, eat, drink, and learn with dignity. A typical SchoolBag includes pencils, biros, colouring pencils, a maths set, ruler, pencil case, six exercise books, a water bottle, lunch box or geometry box which ever is greater need, and a hygiene kit containing a nail cutter, hair comb, soap, toothbrush, and toothpaste etc.

HELP’s founder, Jimmy, was introduced to Luke Simon, founder of School in a Bag UK, through a mutual contact. Jimmy later met Luke in England while studying at the University of Sussex, which led to the establishment of the School in a Bag programme in Nepal.

Since 2012, HELP has worked in partnership with SIAB to deliver SchoolBags across Nepal using an in-country delivery model. SIAB provides the funding, while all SchoolBags and their contents are sourced and assembled locally in Nepal. This approach supports the local economy and maximises impact by avoiding international shipping costs.

SIAB focuses on children affected by poverty, natural disasters, food insecurity, and conflict. Each red SchoolBag helps children attend school regularly, learn with confidence, and feel included. For many children, receiving a SchoolBag is more than practical support. It provides motivation, dignity, and pride in going to school.