By Jacqueline Frost | Development and Communications Manager
Keeping families together and allowing children to grow up in their own communities is the right thing to do.You help to make that possible through your support of Nepal Youth Foundation’s Kinship Care program.
Thousands of children were uprooted from their families after the devastating earthquakes and risked ending up in orphanages – or worse.
To protect these children, NYF expanded its Kinship Care program and is now caring for 682 vulnerable children through this program. NYF provides their extended families with a stipend for school expenses, clothing, food and healthcare, allowing the children to remain in their communities, attend school, and live with loving extended family members.
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, 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.
Thank you for helping us to keep these vulnerable children with loving family members. Namaste!
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