Help a Nepali child remain with a loving family

Namaste!

It was another challenging year for Nepal and children and families we serve.

Just months after two major earthquakes devastated the country, political unrest and a prolonged blockade at the Indian border brought Nepal’s recovery efforts to a near standstill.

Petrol, cooking fuel, food, medicine and building materials were in short supply and prices more than doubled, causing even more suffering.

The crisis slowed us down, but it couldn’t stop NYF’s dedicated staff from doing everything they could to care for some of Nepal’s most impoverished children.

They rode bicycles when there was no petrol. When the cooking fuel ran out, they built outdoor fires to keep the community kitchens operating. They worked 16-hour days to help people who had lost everything.

We are so proud of what the NYF Nepal team accomplished in face of these hardships. We could not have done it without your friendship and support.

Thank you and dhanyabad!

With warmest wishes for the year ahead!

Nepal Youth Foundation

Thirteen-year-old Anjali lost her entire family – father, mother and younger brother – in an instant during the earthquake on April 25, 2015. While collecting fodder for their animals, a landslide rushed in and buried them.

When NYF’s team visited her village in the Dhading District, they met with her impoverished and elderly grandparents who are now taking care of Anjali. They assured the family that NYF will provide for Anjali’s education, living costs, health care and wellbeing, until she graduates high school.

Thousands of children like Anjali were uprooted from their families after the earthquakes and risked ending up in orphanages - or worse.

To protect these vulnerable children, Nepal Youth Foundation expanded its Kinship Care and welcomed 743 children into the program. NYF provides with a stipend for school expenses, clothing, food and healthcare, allowing the children to in their communities, attend school, and – like Anjali – live with her loving grandparents.

Some families will only need support for one or two years, as they rebuild their homes and livelihoods from the devastation of the earthquakes.

For others, like Anjali, NYF’s commitment may last eight or more years – until they finish high school and are able to live on their own.

Many of the children in Kinship Care have lost their parents and suffered severe trauma. As part of the NYF “family,” specialized psychological support is available to them through our Ankur Counseling Center.

Keeping families together and allowing children to grow up in their own communities is the right thing to do, and NYF’s Kinship Care helps make that possible.

Thank you for your support!

Links:

• Nepal Youth Foundation