Making a difference to thousands of Nepali children every year

Welcome to Nepal Youth Foundation United Kingdom

our mission

We focus our efforts on what matters most – 4 key pillars — creating lasting change for children across Nepal.  

EDUCATION

Education builds confidence, fosters innovation, and unlocks paths to financial stability. From kindergarteners in rural schoolhouses to medical students in Kathmandu’s universities, to tradespeople seeking new skills, we’re providing scholarships and career-building support to thousands of Nepal’s young people annually.

HEALTH

Growing bodies and developing minds require care. The smallest adjustments can transform the trajectory of an entire life. At our Nutritional Rehabilitation Home, New Life Center, and Ankur Counseling Center, we’re offering families and children support to build strength and engage curiosity to pursue their dreams.

SHELTER

Especially for children, shelter means safety: physically, emotionally, and psychologically. Loving shelter provides the foundation for healthy adulthood. Providing this holistic stability for children through Olgapuri Children’s Village or Kinship Care allows them to focus on the incredible work of becoming their full selves.

FREEDOM

Whether freeing girls from slavery or dismantling systems of oppression, NYF is breaking down barriers separating Nepal’s children from a prosperous future. Join us in connecting communities with healthcare and education, supporting careers that are building Nepal’s infrastructure, and helping the rising generation thrive!

how we make a difference

Swapnil's Story

At just two years old, Swapnil Bhattarai arrived at our Nutritional Rehabilitation Home (NRH) severely malnourished after several surgeries for an intestinal disorder.

Too weak to heal, he couldn’t undergo the next surgery he needed until he gained weight.

Within five weeks of care and nutritional therapy at the NRH, Swapnil gained 2.1 kg and new energy. His mother, Manju, finally felt hope,  and also learned how to keep him healthy at home.

The NRH gave them more than treatment, it offered a safe haven and a new chance.

Your support makes recoveries like Swapnil’s possible.

Krishna's Story

When Krishna lost his father at nine, his family fell into hardship.

With support from NYF’s Village School Scholarship, he continued his education and later joined our Vocational Education Programme, training in electrical work at the Balaju School of Engineering and Technology.

Within months of graduating, Krishna found employment — and just 18 months later, started his own business.

Today, he earns more than double the average Nepali income and supports his family with pride.

Your support makes breakthroughs like Krishna’s possible.

Our Children's Home

At Olgapuri Village, children who once faced the world alone – orphaned, abandoned, or living with disabilitiesarrive carrying fear and uncertainty. But the moment they enter this warm, purpose-built community, everything begins to change.

Here, they find a safe home, nourishing meals, education from school through college, and adults who believe in them.

With counselling and steady routines, emotional wounds slowly heal, confidence returns, and hope takes root.

Olgapuri becomes the family they never had.

Your support makes new beginnings for these children possible.

Priya's Story

At just 30 months old, Priya travelled to Kathmandu for life-changing cleft palate surgery, only to be told she was too underweight to qualify.

Her mother, Rani, a young woman from the Dalit community, had spent everything to reach the capital and had no way to return home and help her daughter recover.

At our New Life Center, Priya and Rani were welcomed and received expert care, and vital nutritional supportall free of charge.

Priya quickly gained the strength she needed, bringing her long-awaited surgery finally within reach.

Your support makes healing journeys like Priya’s possible.

Dil's Story

At just nine years old, Dil Kumari was sold for $40 a year and forced into exhausting labour from dawn until late at night.

She lived in constant fear for six years, without school, safety, or love.

NYF discovered her and with donor-funded support, she was freed, returned to school, and rebuilt her life.

Today, she is completing a university degree and has founded a Vocational Training Centre to help other freed girls.

As Vice President of the Freed Kamalari Development Forum, she now leads national advocacy ensuring no girl endures what she survived.

Your support made transformations like Dil ’s possible.

Our Former Therapy Centre

At NYF’s Counselling Centre in Kathmandu, children scarred by trauma, neglect, or discrimination finally find a safe place to heal.

Through gentle, child-focused therapy, our counsellors help them regain confidence, trust, and hope, turning emotional pain into resilience.

Alongside one-to-one and group counselling, we train teachers and caregivers across Nepal, expanding emotional support far beyond our walls.

Our satellite centre in Western Nepal ensures that girls freed from child slavery also receive the compassionate care they deserve. Every session helps a child take back their future.

Your support made new beginnings for these children possible.

our programmes

Our programs are designed and implemented by Nepal’s own advocates and experts.

Learn more about our different projects and how you can help.

Nutritional Rehabilitation Homes

Restoring severely malnourished children to health while empowering mothers with the knowledge and confidence to keep their families nourished for life.

Children's Home

Providing abandoned and vulnerable children with a safe, loving home, education, and long-term support so they can grow, heal, and thrive.

Vocational Training and Support

Equipping disadvantaged young people with practical skills, guidance, and job opportunities, helping them build independent, dignified futures in Nepal’s growing workforce.

Supporting Families Recovering From Medical Treatment

Offering children from remote villages a safe, nurturing place to recover after life-saving medical treatment, completely free for families in crisis.

about us

Nepal Youth Foundation (UK) is a UK registered charity  -1182261 – founded in 2013.

Nepal Youth Foundation (UK) now forms part of a growing global organisation with its Head Office in California, and Operations Office Kathmandu and three further offices worldwide.

In the decades that we have been working with children in Nepal, NYF has expanded not only in the number of children we support, which now reaches well over 50,000, but also in the ways in which we help them.

our latest news

Stay up to date with the latest from Nepal Youth Foundation.

Our Newsroom brings together inspiring updates, press releases and videos shared by our US office, showcasing the incredible impact we’re making in Nepal.

From new projects and success stories this is where you can see the difference your support helps create.

Explore the stories, meet the people behind the work, and follow how Nepal Youth Foundation continues to empower children, women, and communities across Nepal.

 

Every day, around 2,000 young people leave Nepal for foreign employment. Each year, NYF awards around 1,000 vocational training scholarships.
Over 100,000 children and young adults have been supported through scholarships, nutrition screening, malnutrition treatment, vocational training, healthcare, psychological counselling.

Another 110,000 adults have been reached through awareness programs such as nutrition awareness, nutrition training, antislavery awareness and awareness on child rights, HIV and Aids awareness, psychological trainings etc. Besides this, NYF has also reached thousands of children families through emergency relief programs and reconstruction (during 2015 earthquake, Covid-19 pandemic, and floods).

The programme for Empowering Former Child Slaves has now been phased out but we have been providing vocational training opportunities to some former Kamalaris and to children belonging to the formerly enslaved families. Psychological Therapy (Ankur) is now offered in the new Caste Equality Project in Eastern Nepal to the Dalit Community.

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your support will transform lives, empower families, strengthen communities, and embolden a new generation