Provide loving homes for homeless Nepali children

Summary

This project provides homes, high-quality educations, clothes, medical care, food, and all other needs for children in Nepal who have no one else to take care of them. progress reportread updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $5,500 was raised for this project.

Received $5,500 from 13 donations from people like:

Asian Collection
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Sumin Seo
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation runs J House (for boys) and K House (for girls), which are two of the best children's homes in Nepal. Each holds only 30 kids. The children that are rescued are the most vulnerable in the country. Some are orphans or were abandoned by their parents, some were child beggars, and some are disabled. Many of them have endured more suffering at a young age than some of us experience in a lifetime, but have found ways to triumph over their difficulties.

Activities

NYOF provides not only all living, educational, and medical expenses, but love and personal attention. NYOF commits to the children for the long term, through college, and provides what is usually the first real sense of security in their lives.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $5,500

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $5,500.  The original project funding goal was $5,500.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

NYOF provides these children, many of whom are from low castes, with opportunities to excel in any career they choose. This contributes to breaking down the caste barriers in Nepal.

Project Message

"These children are solid 'miracles of transformation' from outcasts at the bottom of the social ladder to loving, responsible, and accomplished citizens. NYOF is the vehicle of their opportunity."
- Donor, Visitor to J and K House

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Olga Murray,
President and Founder of NYOF
3030 Bridgeway, Suite 123
Sausalito, California 94965
United States
415-331-8585
Email:

Project Sponsor

Marketplace 2005

Organization

Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation (NYOF)
3030 Bridgeway, Suite 123
Sausalito, California 94965
United States
(415) 331-8585
http://www.nyof.org

Learn more about Nepalese Youth Opportunity Foundation (NYOF) and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Nepal and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Nepal, read the Human Development Report on Nepal or the Wikipedia entry for Nepal.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 09, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on October 05, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

The children at J and K House continue to thrive

By Janis Olson - Executive Director, July 09, 2007 05:31 PM

Two Full Circle Success Stories

Dinesh lived on the street with his infant sister when he was about five or six years old. They were eventually admitted to a not-very-good government orphanage, where they spent their early years. After identifying his academic talent, the government asked that Dinesh be admitted to the J House.

Fast-forward to today and Dinesh is married and the CEO of an excellent new school that J and K House kids attend! A full circle – the former street child overseeing the education of kids at the home where he grew up and which gave him the opportunity to evolve into a whole, happy, and successful adult

The second story is a success story in the making. Raju was born with a condition called extrophy – he had no bladder, his intestines were exposed, and his hipbones were not joined. His mother could not afford to care for him, and because of his condition he was kept home, unable to attend school.

Today, years after a miraculous surgery in the US and being taken into the J House, Raju is a law student who with a group of other students just successfully filed a case in the Supreme Court of Nepal against child labor.

Click below to read the full success stories of these J House boys!

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