Nepal Earthquake Relief and Recovery Fund

We are pleased to announce that GlobalGiving and GlobalGiving UK awarded 36 grants to organizations working to rebuild Nepal after the April and May 2015 earthquakes. GlobalGiving prioritizes local nonprofits and those that work hand-in-hand with local community members.  Every organization that is supported through GlobalGiving’s Nepal Earthquake Relief and Recovery Fund is fully vetted and nearly every project funded was visited by a GlobalGiving representative in 2015. Below is a list of the much needed efforts that your donations are supporting:

• Aura Freedom International: To open and run five Female-Friendly Spaces in Kathmandu Valley, Rasuwa, and Dhading districts.
• Build Change: To design and complete a mobile training unit to supplement the government of Nepal's standard builder training curriculum and deliver training via a mobile training unit in at least 12 villages averaging 500 families each.
• Children's Medical Aid Foundation: To provide clean water, solar light fixtures, and refill eroded earth from six schools in Naya Gaon, Kavrepalanchowk District.
• Concern Worldwide US: To help earthquake-affected farmer families build a better future through a targeted livelihood support approach.
• DCWC Nepal: To repair and rebuild schools and temporary houses in Nagre Gagarche, Kavrepalanchok District.
• Edge of Seven: To rebuild four permanent schools (Kalika and Pawe Secondary Schools, and Tsinga Kedi and Dudkosika Lower Secondary Schools) in Solukhumba District, serving 800 students.
• Educate the Children: To build five classrooms in temporary learning centers in three primary schools in Lapiland, Lamidanda, and Babare VDCs in Dolakha District.
• Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness: To support earthquake-affected communities in Kavrepalanchowk and Lalitpur districts for better education, health, and economic opportunities.
• Esther Benjamin Trust: To rebuild schools, provide community training in education management, advocacy and school participation and install the first lending library in each new school.
• Friends of UNFPA: To run three Female-Friendly Spaces with a case manager, psychosocial counselor, and linkages with health and legal services in Ramechhap, Dolakha, and Rasuwa districts for six months.
• Global Family Village: To provide housing medical care, psychosocial and education support for earthquake survivors in nine earthquake-affected districts.
• Global Reach International: To construct one primary school in Kavreplanchouk and one 23-room high school in Dhading District.
• GoodWeave International: To build permanent homes for 40 weaving families in Hagam VDC, Fulpungkot VDC, and Dupachour VDC in Sindhupalchowk District.
• Green Tara Nepal/Karuna Trust: To conduct a post-disaster health promotion project targeting 10,000 people in three VDCs in Dhading.
• Himalayan HealthCare: To rebuild five schools in northern Dhading.
• International Disaster Volunteers (IDV): To construct, furnish, and provide supplies to six schools in Sindhupalchowk and providing training and support to local partner NGOs
• IsraAID: To provide psychosocial support, launch a 'life stories' program, and expand the 'honeyAID' livelihoods program.
• Journey Home Foundation: To provide clean drinking water to more than 4,000 people in Laprak village in Gorkha District.
• MADRE: To reconstruct 30 houses and conduct income-generating activities for 90 people in Sundrawati VDC, Dolakha District.
• Nepal Youth Foundation: To build three schools in Sipakhori VDC, Sindhupalchowk District.
• One Heart World-Wide: To build one maternity waiting home in Dhading District and one in Sindhupalchok District.
• Our Sansar: To support 200 families with training, animals, and small-business training and 400 children with education support in Dhading District.
• Partnership for Sustainable Development: To support the reconstruction of ten schools and two orphanages in five districts.
• Peace Winds America: To construct three community centers in Khokana.
• PHASE Nepal: To rebuild and support teachers and students at Siddhartha Primary School and Kalidevi Primary School in Hagam VDC in Sindhupalchowk and to support the retention of high-quality staff and provide some compensation for those who worked during the aftermath of the earthquake.
• Real Medicine Foundation: To construct four prefabricated houses for orphans cared for by the Nepal Children's Organization.
• Room to Read: To construct 10 classrooms in Nuwakot District.
• Samrakshak Samuha Nepal (SASANE): To support the repair or reconstruction of homes for 187 SASANE paralegals.
• Tewa: To support 25 long-term local volunteers in six earthquake affected districts in Nepal.
• The Advocacy Project: To support Care Women Nepal to organize health camps for earthquake survivors in Dhankuta District.
• The Global Fund for Children: To support three grassroots Nepali organizations rebuild earthquake-affected communities.
• The Mountain Fund: To provide new sources or water, restore housing, repair volunteer housing, and make homes earthquake-resistant in Mankhu and Goganpani villages in Dhading District.
• The Nepal Trust: To rebuild a six-room and provide all furniture and equipment at Shree Gorkhanath Primary School in Helambu VDC, Sindhupalchowk District.
• The Santi School Project: To provide specially designed classroom furniture and read-aloud training for 30 teachers in classrooms damaged in the April 2015 earthquake.
• Tributaries International, Inc.: To build 23 houses for families in Gorkha and Nuwakat Districts.
• Women LEAD: To rebuild the Women LEAD training hall, which was damaged in the earthquake.

Thank you again for funding this important work.  You are making a difference in the lives of so many in Nepal.