Our Mission
The Nepal Youth Foundation offers hope and opportunity to Nepal’s most impoverished children by providing them what is every child’s birthright: vital healthcare, education and a safe environment
Our goals
Increase access to education for children in Nepal
Improve the quality of education available in the country
Improve the health of children throughout Nepal
Empower Nepali youth to achieve their potential
Enable girls in Nepal to receive equal treatment and education
How we achieve our goals
We take a highly personal approach to the children and families we serve, even when that takes more time and energy.
We emphasize the development of personal and social responsibility in the children we support.
We support only children who have no other opportunity for education or a better life.
We deeply admire and respect Nepalese culture and society, and strive to promote them in the children.
We protect and promote the family unit wherever possible.
We serve Nepalese children and hire staff without regard to caste, religion, disability, ethnicity, or political affiliation. We actively foster tolerance and diversity.
We are non-proselytizing and unaffiliated with any religious group.
How we develop and implement programs and commitments
We take seriously the trust that a dependent child places in us. We ensure that we have the necessary financial and logistical stability before we take on children who will depend entirely on us. We will not abandon these children once they enter our fold (they have been abandoned enough in their lives).
Likewise, we ensure that we have sufficient logistical and financial support in launching programs before making promises to Nepalese communities.
Since we cannot do everything, we do thoroughly what we can do – whether a small act or a major program – from inception to completion and follow-up.
We manage NYF’s growth carefully, developing programs in the context of local need, potential, and participation – not in terms of organizational ambition. We favor “slow but sure” growth that involves Nepali communities and organizations.
At the same time, we value our nimble ability to cut through red tape and act quickly – and strategically – exactly when needed.
We prioritize interventions that can make significant, enduring improvements in children’s lives. For this reason we emphasize education, the only way an orphaned or poor child in Nepal can break out of the cycle of poverty.
We creatively “bundle” our interventions with sustainability measures. For instance, while we restore a malnourished child’s health, we teach his or her mother how to prepare locally available foods to prevent future malnourishment. We also train mothers to share this valuable information with other families back at their villages.
