NAG – Nawa Asha Griha, Home of New Hopes, is a home for street children in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Your donation to NAG means that you will provide a safe home and education for about 200 children and the opportunity for about 250 children from poor areas to attend school daily. The home and school is run solely with your support and your contribution will be used everywhere it is needed – whether it is to organize school supplies for everyone or food for over 450 people each day.

Thank you for helping the children to have an independent and self-determined future!

NAG – Nawa Asha Griha, Home of New Hopes, is a home for street children in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Your donation to NAG means that you will provide a safe home and education for about 200 children and the opportunity for about 250 children from poor areas to attend school daily. The home and school will be run solely with your support and your contribution will be used for whatever is needed – whether it is to organize school supplies for everyone or food for over 450 people each day.

Thank you for enabling the children to have an independent and self-determined future!

NEWS

Funny and exciting stories from NAG’s everyday life

Teacher Training on the road to success

March 11th, 2024|

The NAG Teacher Training Project is running at full speed. This year, teacher training has already taken place at four schools: in Kathmandu at the Saraswati School and the Manohara School, in Jhor at the Baudeshor School and in Dolpo. The training courses vary in length. In Kathmandu and the surrounding area they usually last 3 days, in Dolpo Jessica and Manjita were there for two weeks. The journey there is arduous and takes a long time. In addition, 16 year 12 students are involved in the NAG teacher training program. Nicole has agreed with them that all those who can continue their studies thanks to NAG will work for two months at one of the schools in the Teacher Training project in the time between their final exams and receiving their grades. They are now being trained by Myren Duval throughout the year. Since January 2024, 66 teachers have already benefited from Teacher Training, which makes us incredibly happy and shows how wide the reach of this project already is. Demand is high and we need to consider how we use our resources. The content of the training courses is very varied and tailored to the needs of the respective schools. At Saraswati School, for example, the focus on the first day was on the learning environment. How can you create pleasant learning environments and build a good teacher-student relationship? The second day then focused on collaborative learning and the third day on reading and reading instruction. Jessica and Manjita have [...]

Annual Letter 2023

February 15th, 2024|

Dear Friends of NAG - Namaste! The turn of the year 2022/2023 at NAG was quiet, the waves of the previous two years having definitely calmed down. In February the "crazy Cheib” (crazy guy) rode into NAG on his bike.  Ivo Schär, alias "Borderzibi", [...]

NAG supports 500 families affected by the earthquake

November 20th, 2023|

As part of our Teacher Training project, Ohm Thakuri traveled to the affected area shortly after the earthquake on  November 3, 2023 and also visited an area that was badly affected. Many of the inhabitants belong to the Dalit caste and are therefore very [...]

NAG’s environmental work

October 16th, 2023|

International World Environment Day took place on June 5, 2023, which was actively celebrated in NAG. We celebrated this day with all our students by carrying out a range of learning activities around the themes of environment, earth and nature. On this day, grades [...]

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