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Hope Acts:
HOPE Initiative,
Nepal, is a dynamic, all volunteer charitable organization devoted to
bringing HOPE through education, food programs, scholarship funds, animal
husbandry, an orphanage and a health initiative to the under-privileged of
Nepal, a beautiful but desperately poor country wedged between India and
China, at the foot of the Himalayas. Every penny donated to HOPE goes
directly to the poor. 100% of all overhead is underwritten by the HOPE
Board and by fundraising, allowing every dollar to go toward funding our
programs and our children. With HOPE, you always know where you donation
went. It went to the children.
Hope Implements:
Most charitable
organizations working in developing countries partner with local
organizations to implement programs on the ground, which can limit their
effectiveness and flexibility by building in additional bureaucracy and
distance. HOPE Initiative is intimately involved with all program
development and implementation in Nepal to ensure the best transfer of
practices and knowledge, while being cognizant of the need for local
capacity building. Projects are always undertaken in collaboration with
target communities to address their unique needs and concerns.
HOPE Believes:
Education is the key to escaping the cycle of poverty. HOPE unlocks the
potential in every child and in each family by nurturing the body, mind,
and spirit.
HOPE Focuses:
On investing early through food and animal breeding programs, offering
shelter and health care, and bringing innovative educational programs to
the people so they may cultivate self-learning and problem solving. We are
dedicated to inspiring life-long creative curiosity and independence by
eliminating disease, starvation, and despair.
HOPE’s Mission:
Through the
lifelong gift of education, we strive to empower individuals to effect
substantive change in their own lives, and with our help, but through
their own efforts, escape the twin plights of poverty and dependency.
HOPE’s Methods:
To bring those caught in the cycle of poverty, hunger, and disease into
the classroom, keep them there and ensure they have the support they need
to succeed. To bring those that are ill, health; to bring those that are
hungry, food; to bring those that are orphaned, a home; to bring those
that despair, HOPE.
HOPE Enables
THE POOR TO STEP OUT OF
DESPAIR AND INTO A BRIGHTER FUTURE BY
Establishing
Community Centers
After years of preparation, we opened our first center in 2004 in a
village in Midwestern Nepal, laying computer lines across rice paddies and
banana groves to connect the people to the world. Since inception, our
local computer staff has trained over 300 students from 14-48 years of age
in computer literacy, provided free internal access, helped students move
into meaningful employment, and aided in revitalizing communities by
reducing youth migration.
The Community Center is helping to bridge the poverty chasm by providing
the indigent
• Access
to the benefits of technology to improve their quality of life. Local
villagers now use technology in a variety of innovative applications to
enrich their lives and expand their opportunities.
• Means
to obtaining critical health, social, and education information
• Contact
with potential buyers in cities saving time and money and creating markets
where none were before
• Communication
for families torn apart when members seeks work overseas reunite through
email, often for the first time in years
• Teachers
who now make interesting
and complex handouts and posters that usually enrich only the classrooms
of the wealthy
• Discovery
of a world of knowledge
Our Centers are currently implementing new educational programs including
free tuition, educational outreach, and health education programs. Please
look at our programs page for a detailed description of our specific
programs. Our programs are many and varied and address the multiple needs
faced by nation that is the poorest in Asia and the 10th poorest in the
world.
Read on. Help us create HOPE, one child at a time
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