A Christmas Message from the NAFA President Dear NAFA Supporters, Deb and I have recently returned from a two-week NAFA Executive visit to Nepal. In my role as President, and with Deb's focus on Project and Program Research and Evaluation, we are always excited to see the progress being made by NAFA-funded initiatives. I [...]
While NAFA is no longer being directly affected by COVID, our new normal is not the same as it used to be - again, no annual fundraising dinner and few market stalls. At least I was able to visit our projects in March. As was the case in the COVID years, NAFA continued to [...]
The third and likely final year affected by COVID – though our new normal is not the same as it used to be: again, no annual fundraising dinner and few market stalls but at least Deb and I had visits to Nepal during the year, though in the second visit in late 2022, we [...]
Another COVID year, but again, thanks to wonderful support from NAFA’s donor network and generous donations from loyal philanthropists NAFA continued to support its ongoing health, disability, education and childcare commitments, as well as fund important one-off projects. In March 2022 senior executive officers were able to visit most of NAFA’s funded projects in [...]
A second year affected by Covid we had hoped for a return to normality but again no annual fundraising dinner, only a couple of market stalls and no visits to Nepal by NAFA executive officers. However, like 2020, we were still able to continue to support our Nepali funded partners through Covid, fund our core [...]
Govinda Raj Pahari is Director of the Butterfly Foundation (BNF) in Pokhara. In this post Govinda provides an update on the distribution of aid packages to people with a disability. Govinda is a deeply passionate man with a long history of helping the disadvantaged in his community, including the establishment of two childcare centres [...]
After celebrating our 30th Anniversary at our Annual Fundraising Dinner in May 2019, little did we know what lay ahead in 2020 – a year like no other, due to Covid-19: no annual fundraising dinner - only a couple of market stalls and except for a short visit by the President in late January 2020 [...]
After celebrating NAFA's 30th anniversary at the Annual Fundraising Dinner in May 2019, little did we know what would lie ahead for 2020. In a year like no other due to Covid-19, there was no annual fundraising dinner, only a couple of market stalls and, except for a short visit by the President in [...]
In this post we are delighted to share some insightful updates in the form of two videos and a written report presented to you by NAFA's partners and beneficiaries in Nepal. Bijaya Rajbhandari – NAFA’s volunteer Coordinator in Nepal. Bijaya provides a particularly insightful overview of how Covid-19 has impacted Nepal. In his video [...]
NAFA is excited to share this video message prepared by Shovana Rai, Executive Board member and head nurse for Sungava Home in Kathmandu. Sungava Home aims to provide both residential and day care for young women with intellectual disability. Services include the provision of health care, life skills training and both educational and vocational [...]