In rural Nepal, an historic tradition, called Kamlari, permitted destitute families to sell their daughter's labor. Now, however, the Nepal government has banned the practice. Yet, many families still carry on the tradition, gaining little more than $50 a year for each daughter sold into bonded servitude. This program provides the family with a goat or pig as substitution for the daughter's wages, brings the girl home and ensures her access to education.

The Indentured Daughters Program is one of the most important of NYF's programs to help children in Nepal. This project rescues young Nepali girls who have been sold into bonded servitude by destitute families who need the income from their daughters' labor. NYF's humane answer to this horrible practice is to bring the girls home to be educated, while giving the family either a piglet or goat which, when sold at maturity, will provide a profit equivalent to what the daughter would have earned.

Fifty percent of Nepali children under five-years-old are malnourished. Among the consequences of malnutrition are stunted growth, increased susceptibility to disease and permanent intellectual damage. Malnutrition is the main cause of death for as many as 50,000 Nepali children each year. NYF's unique program restores health to a malnourished child while simultaneously educating the mother in proper childcare, hygiene, and nutrition. And all of this can be done with a donation of $260.

A remote outreach eye camp will screen between 1,000 and 5,000 patients and restore sight to approximately 200 to 800 people in Nepal, Tibet, China, Bhutan or Northern India through cataract surgery.

In Nepal's remote villages and rural countryside, many bright children simply don't have the opportunity to go to school because of their family's poverty. Yet, with an education, these children will be able to break the cycle of poverty for their families and themselves. Through Nepal Youth Foundation's Village Scholarship program, your donation of $100 is sufficient to provide a year of education to one of these impoverished though deserving children. Your gift will change a child's life.

This project assists orphanages and children's homes to provide orphans and abandoned children with a family, a home, education, and status in the community. (A family is a trained "mother," up to 8-10 siblings and community grandparents.)

This project is devoted to the rescue of the 250,000 trafficked and exploited child laborers in South Asia's carpet looms, and ensuring their access to schooling and social programs. GoodWeave educates consumers, partners with importers, and certifies rugs as child-labor-free, thus taking away the profitability and invisibility of child labor.

This project will run literacy classes for 156 women and activities for a total of 445 people, as a foundation for opening businesses, managing their own finances and forming community groups.

In Nepal, psychological counseling is only now beginning to be used to help children address and recover from trauma and the stresses of life. The Nepal Youth Foundation's Ankur Counseling Center (ACC) offers counseling to needy children. In addition, the ACC leads programs designed to teach professionals in education, medicine and social services how to provide these counseling services to children throughout the country.

Help blind, deaf, and physically disabled students escape the stigmas of their disabilities. Enable them to get an education, learn to take care of themselves, and give back to Nepali society.