Nepal Orphans Home Inc.
Mission Statement
- Nepal Orphans Home (NOH) attends to the welfare of children in Nepal who are orphaned, abandoned, or not supported by their parents. NOH provides for the children's basic needs of food, shelter, and clothing, as well as schooling and health care, and administers to their emotional needs with love and compassion, allowing them to grow up in a nurturing environment. Our mission is not just to rescue children from abject poverty, but to enable the children to develop and realize their potentials.
Focus Areas:
- Children, Education, Health, Poverty, Gender & Equality
Countries Served:
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Nepal
Background:
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Date Founded: 2005Number of Staff: 40Description of Services:
- Nepal Orphans Home provides shelter, food, clothing, education and health care for children and young adults in our Papa's House and college transition house in Dhapasi, near Kathmandu. Nearly half of the children are former Kamlaris, rescued from indentured servitude. Through grade 10 the children attend a nearby English-medium school. Older children who have achieved their School Leaving Certificates attend college. Volunteer Nepal, our affiliate, draws compassionate people from around the world and identifies placements throughout Nepal that will benefit from the volunteers' services. The Chelsea Education and Community Center provides academic enrichment and life skills training to our children and adult education to local women.
History:- Nepal Orphans Home (NOH) was founded in 2005 by Michael Hess. As a volunteer in Nepal in 2004, Michael was moved by the plight of the children he witnessed living in poverty. He vowed to help. Selling his home in Florida and investing his savings, Michael returned to Nepal and established a children's home, Papa's House, in Dhapasi, where he has lived since. Each year the mission has expanded to help more people.
Accomplishments & Progress:- In 2019 Nepal Orphans Home began its fifteenth year of operations, providing for 41 young girls in Papa's Harmony House and 4 young boys living at the Chelsea Center, as well as supporting 14 college girls in grade 11 living independently in Papa's Sanctuary House and 4 college boys living independently in the Chelsea Center, and three dozen young adults from Papa's House enrolled in grade 12 college preparatory and Bachelor's programs. The Chelsea Education and Community Center began its seventh year of academic enrichment and life skills training for the older Papa's House children and its fifth year of literacy classes to local women in the community of Dhapasi. NOH Outreach provides assistance to the less fortunate in Nepal.
Additional Background Information:
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Nepal Orphans Home is a 501(c)(3) public charity incorporated in North Carolina. Nepal Orphans Home is listed on Guidestar, earning a GuideStar Exchange Seal, demonstrating its commitment to transparency. The NOH profile includes recent Annual Reports and 990 forms, available as public record. None of the members of the NOH Board of Directors receives compensation. a) Hess, has lived at Papa's House in Dhapasi, Nepal from the outset.
NOH has made a significant difference in Nepal...one child at a time, each one special. NOH Outreach continued to provide assistance to the less fortunate throughout Nepal.
Nepal Orphans Home is listed on Guidestar, earning a GuideStar Exchange Seal, demonstrating its commitment to transparency. The NOH profile includes recent Annual Reports and 990 forms, available as public record. None of the members of the NOH Board of Directors receives compensation.
Quality Check:
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Financial Information Verified Year 2014 2013 2012 Total Revenue: $378,960 $369,657 $316,806 Expenses: Program Services Expenses: $290,175 (100% of total)$307,111 (100% of total)$263,293 (100% of total)Management & General Expenses: $0 (0% of total)$0 (0% of total)$77 (0% of total)Fundraising Expenses: $1,054 (0% of total)$100 (0% of total)$532 (0% of total)Total Expenses: $291,229 $307,211 $263,902
Officers and Board:
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Board of Directors and Board of Advisors:
- BOARD OF DIRECTORS: Carola Drosdeck (Vice President), Michael Hess (Founder and Director of Operations Emeritus), Peter Hess (President), Tamara Chant, Rajesh Trivedi (Treasurer), Antonia Thomson, Hillary Bernhardt, and Ted Seymour; BOARD OF ADVISORS: Suresh Acharya, Elizabeth Early, Liz Early Jr., Marie-Cecile Caillet, Tyler Drosdeck, Anne McCadden, and Michael Triozzi.
Contact:
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Address: P.O. Box 1254
Davidson , North Carolina 28036
United States
Phone: 704-892-9647 Fax: Web: http://www.nepalorphanshome.org
Photos:
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Enjoying the Day View Full Size Homework View Full Size Volunteer Teaching Science at Dolpa View Full Size Papa's House Study Hall View Full Size Peace from Papa's House View Full Size CECC Computer Class View Full Size Papa's House Book Club View Full Size Volunteer Nepal Teaching a Class View Full Size Papa's House Heart View Full Size
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