Opening Ceremony @ WEP -13th Batch
The 13th batch at our Women Empowerment Centre: The EMPOWERMENT for another 16 women has been started today. This will be a 3 months free “Tailoring Training”, which will be creating opportunities for helpless women at our Women Empowerment Center, Ghachowk, Kaski, Nepal. After the successful completion, they will be provided some support to start
Celebrating Children’s Day 2022
“Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child’s life, we add light and healing to our own lives.” Oprah Winfrey Nepal has been celebrating National Children’s Day on Bhadra 29th every year on the occasion of
Celebrating Teej, Father’s Day & Birthday @ NCF
Today, we celebrated three special occasions at our children home, Ratnachowk, Pokhara, Nepal. This includes: a) Father’s Day: Father’s Day is also known as Kuse Ausi. This day Nepali people pay their homage to their father with their favorite food, clothing and other dad’s favorite stuff. While developing up, each little child wishes a superhero of
Congratulations SEE graduates!!!
We would like to CONGRATULATE our students (Jamuna, Monika, Alina & Rohit) for their outstanding results in their School Education Examination (SEE). They all have secured well-deserved success. We all Namaste Community Foundation Family, Nepal are proud of them. Likewise, over 100 of children under children home program and over 170 children from scholarship program
Celebrating 19th Successful Years of NCF
Today we celebrated 19th SUCCESSFUL YEARS of changing peoples’ lives through Namaste Community Foundation, Nepal with our children, staff and the board at our children home and office. On this auspicious occasion, we would like to thank all our partners, volunteers, sponsors, board members, staff, well wishers for their continuous effort and kindness from the
Graduation ceremony @ WEP
Today, we organized a small graduation (farewell) ceremony in presence of Mr Visma Raj Paudel (Founder/Chairperson) for 15 single women at our Women Empowerment Center, Ghachowk, Kaski, Nepal. They represent our 12th batch trainee, for successfully completing Tailoring Training. They are now eligible to receive seed funds (financial support) to start their own entrepreneurships. We
THE WEDDING OF OUR DAUGHTER
One of our daughter’s (Anita Goley) has recently got married with Pratik Pun and started her new journey. We all Namaste Family, Nepal would like to congratulate her and wish the couple a lifetime of love and happiness.
PARTICIPATE TO CHANGE
Without you and all other great hearts around the world; it would have been simply impossible to create positive changes for many underprivileged children and people of Nepal. We would like to make an APPEAL for your active participation to make a positive change and spread happiness through us. You can make a DONATION towards
FESTIVAL CELEBRATION AT OUR HOME
In last 2 months, we had an opportunity to celebrate few festivals in our home. This includes: Nepali New Year, small Dashain and Mother’s Day. We celebrated these festivals together with some of our reintegrated children, mummies and uncles. We ordered the cake and prepared delicious meals at our home. On 30th April 2022, our
COMPLETION OF FINAL EXAM
Our children up to grade 10 have recently appeared the final examination and most of them have done well. We are pretty sure that they will get good results. There is about 2-3 weeks holiday before they join the upper grade. So with full participation in making holiday program, we have made 1 program daily
GREATEST APPRECIATION BY LIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL
We all at Namaste Family, Nepal would like to CONGRATULATE our Chairperson/Founder Mr. Visma Raj Paudel for being greatly APPRECIATED by Lions Club International for his service under Lions Club Nepal. He has been involved in the club since 2008 as Chartered President of Lions Club of Pokhara Talbarahi. He was honored by Krity Award,
GIFT FROM UK
We would like to greatly appreciate Chris Neil and Dominic Partridge for their kind contribution through Lee Walker (Scotland) on 30th March 2022. This donation was utilized to buy kitchen utensils, rechargeable bulb, hair trimmer, slipper, cleaning goods and under garments for children.
SKILL TRANSFER TO 15 SINGLE WOMEN
After the Covid settlement, this is our second group of 15 women who have been selected for the skill transfer (2 months full time tailoring training) at our Ghachowk center. They will be provided free training, everyday meal, training materials and some counselling classes to empower towards financial independency.
PARTNERS MONITORING VISIT FROM NETHERLANDS
We were happy to welcome our partner M/s Hilde Bleijswijk from Namaste Foundations, Netherlands on 18th April 2022. She stayed here for 2 weeks with us and experienced the progress of last two years. We also managed to organize a re-opening ceremony of our Women Empowerment Center. It’s already 1.5 DECADE of GREAT PARTNERSHIP to
FESTIVAL CELEBRATION AT OUR HOME
The culture of Nepal is rich and unique in the world. The cultural heritage of Nepal has evolved over the centuries. This multi-dimensional heritage bounds the diversities of Nepal’s ethnic, tribal, and social groups and are expressed in various forms. In last two month, we were able to celebrate few festivals. This includes: Tamu Loshar,
CHILDREN OUTINGS
Due to covid circumstances and the risk of virus transmission; we were not able take our children outing for almost two years. But on 26th February, we were able to take them to Pumdikot and Peace Pagoda together with our partner Tuuli Vikstedt (WoC Australia). The viewpoint is a picturesque location at a height of
SUPPORTERS VISIT AND THEIR GENEROSITY
This year, we were also able to welcome Mr. Lee Walker from Scotland, who is very good friend of Mr. Visma Raj Paudel and well-wisher of NCF Nepal. During his visit, he managed to collect some donations and we were able to purchase new table tennis games, new school shoes, window curtains, school bags and
EDUCATIONAL GIFT FROM AUSTRALIA
We are thankful to all the supporters and especially WoC International (Australia/Finland) for appealing laptops & taking them all along to Nepal for our university going students. Altogether 4 laptops were provided to support their university education as well as distance learning activities. It would definitely give an opportunity to further spread their wings of
OUR FOUNDER’S LAWN TENNIS ACHIEVEMENT
We would like to congratulate Mr. Visma Raj Paudel (Founder/Chairperson) for being a “Beginner Kaski District Champion” organized by Kaski District Tennis Association at Pokhara Stadium on 22nd February 2022. He is also an executive board member of “Kaski District Lawn Tennis Association”. He believes that sports are important for health and mental well-being.
CHILDREN TOWARDS INDEPENDENCY
Some of our children, who gradually passed high school level of education, have recently been reintegrated back to the society. The reintegration is done after finding a paid job for their financial independence. Some of them are still supported partially to continue their university studies and continuous follow-up, guidelines and motivation will be provided for
