Students Reunion & Picnic
For some refreshment for the staff, reintegrated children and the current resident children of Namaste Community Foundation, a reunion picnic program was organized on 27th April 2019 inviting all our children who formerly lived with us. Although the weather was not to our side in the very last hour, we managed to enjoy the picnic
Self-Defense Classes
We would like to thank Miss Ruthie and her sister from USA for their 2 weeks self defense classes to our children at the children’s home. They taught various self-defense techniques to our children and they enjoyed learning those lessons.
Celebration of Nepali New Year
Nepali New year has always been very special to every Nepalese living inside and outside the country. This new year is special for us as well because this new year is the start of a new beginning and a new hope. The NCF-Family celebrated this new year with lots of joy and happiness. At the
Water Project for Ramchedevi Basic School
After realizing the need for a source of safe drinking water to the students and staff of Ramchedevi Basic School Syangja, we decided to support the school with all the basic requirements for the easy availability of drinking water. A contract was signed in between Namaste Community Foundation and Ramchedevi Basic School, Tallachaur, Fedikhola-4, Syangja
Scholarship Distribution Program
As in previous years, this year on 26th April 2019 a scholarship distribution program was organized for the very few but deserving students. This could be the last time we will be distributing scholarship from home because we have planned to distribute scholarship/school materials to the students in a cluster way i.e. we will select
Dental Camp in our home
A bi-annual dental check-up camp was organized by our very good friends and a well-wisher of NCF-Nepal Mr. Kantosh Gurung and Pritam Gurung from Riverside Health Center. Our sincere thanks to him and his team for showing us such a love and care all the time. Altogether 30 children and 5 staff benefited from the
Congratulations to Lok Maya Marasini
A huge congratulations to our child Ms. Lok Maya Marasini for passing her Bachelor of Business studies 1-year exam. Although she was not feeling well during the time of examination she managed to pass the exam. We are very happy for you and we wish a very prosperous future.
Celebration of 16th Anniversary
We recently celebrated our 16th Anniversary on 10th June 2019 together with our children, in our lakeside home. During this ceremony, we remembered with appreciation, each and everyone of you (well-wishers, friends, donors, sponsors, volunteers, partner charities and board members, advisory group, etc.) for you helping hands in supporting us and assisting in our continued
Partner Charity’s monitoring visit
We are happy to welcome our partner charity (IBSH) Director – Josh Porteous and Country Representative – Rishi Acharya all way from Australia in our house in lakeside for a regular monitoring visit. During this trip, they managed to spend some time with children including one day hiking to stupa. We also had few meetings
Women’s Empowerment Center
We have successfully completed the 8th batch of training in the last 4 years (2014-2018), providing essential job-oriented skills in our Women’s Empowerment Centre, Ghachowk, Kaski, Nepal. for about 200 single women living under the poverty level. Most of these women have already been empowered by becoming successful small business entrepreneurs and others have been
Renowned singers visit NCF Nepal
The best female singer, Miss. Sherya Sotang (Image Award 2018), and singing idol, Mr. Santosh Lama (Nepal Tara – 2), managed to visit our children at NCF Nepal during their Christmas Concert in Lakeside, Pokhara, Nepal. They sang a couple of songs in our house for our children, spent some time with them, and distributed
Classes run by elder brother
One of the elder children, Mr Durga Bhandari, who completed 12th grade last year, has started to offer computer classes for all of the children living in our house. Each child gets 4 hours of computer class each week to learn basic computer skills. Some of the children are learning very quickly and then supporting
Children’s achievements and art creation
Some of our older girls were able to achieve their best performance during the high school level sports meet. Out of various games like: English Eloquence, Basketball, Nepali Eloquence, Table tennis, etc; Pragya, Anita, Deumaya and Moti BK secured the best positions. All of us in the NCF Nepal family would like to congratulate them
Monitoring visit by GDG, Australia
We were happy to welcome and share our humanitarian work with Lauren Palma, and Kelly Chislom, two officers from Global Development Group, Australia during their “Project Monitoring Visit, December 2018”.
Warm clothes for the poor children
We organized a distribution ceremony for winter clothes (school sweater, cap and trousers) and sports materials for each of the 45 students studying from playgroup to grade 5 in “Ramchadevi Basic School” Tallachaur-4, Syangja, Nepal During this program; Miss. Arshiya and Aaryas Raj Paudel (children of Visma Raj Paudel) also donated some financial support to
One of the happy moment
Our Founder/Director Mr. Visma Raj Paudel is extremely happy to meet 2 girls in Sydney, Australia who were rescued and taken care for 8-12 years in our children home in lakeside, Pokhara until they completed their 12th grade. These girls are pursuing their bachelors level education in Sydney, Australia now. After acquiring necessary skills and
Completion of 8th group of training
Today we organized a small closing ceremony of our 8th batch of Women who were selected and completed 3 months full TAILORING TRAINING in our Women Empowerment Center, Ghachowk, Kaski, Nepal.
Celebration of biggest Hindu festivals
Dashain and Tihar is the biggest festival of Nepal and was celebrated again this year with much joy and happiness together with our Founder Visma Raj Paudel and former chairman Mr Govinda Bikharchi Sharma in the presence of our partner charities, in our lakeside home with the children who were not able to visit their
Celebration of 10 years of partnership in the humanitarian field
A joint movement in the humanitarian field with Wind of Change International has now reached a new milestone of 10 years. We celebrated this joy at the Dancing Boat Pub with our children, staff and board members during the director’s Nepal visit.
Winter trousers and books
Winter in NEPAL has already started. Days are getting colder, and the Nepalese people are seen wrapped in their winter clothes. We highly appreciate Mr. Michael Hindhaugh for sending some money through his son, Travis, to buy winter gifts for the children. The gifts (trousers) were distributed by Joshua, Adam, Tarvis and James (Australian Boys).
