For 15 years, Nepal House Society has provided free therapeutic schooling, meals and provided girls and their families with parenting and support groups.
What we provide
With your generous support, Nepal House Society provides four pillars of care for girls and families in Pokhara — at no cost to them, ever.
An estimated 10,000–15,000 Nepalese girls are trafficked across the border each year. We give the girls at Nepal House School — and their families — a free, protected path away from that risk.
Since 2011 we've educated about 25 girls a year who would otherwise be left off school rosters. With 65+ graduates and counting, we keep funding tuition, uniforms, and shoes as they move on to regular school.
Culturally sensitive play, expressive arts, and talk therapy from trained Nepalese counsellors — helping children process trauma, grief, depression, and anxiety in one of the few therapeutic spaces in the region.
Free medical care, healthy meals, hygiene education, parent courses, support groups for mothers and fathers, and one-on-one counselling — so whole families can heal together.
Years on the Ground
Graduates Transformed & Mainstreamed
Free to Families
Our Story
Nepal House (Kaski) is a non-profit community social services agency in Pokhara, Nepal — a city nestled in the foothills of the Annapurna mountains. For over fifteen years, we have run a children's school and counselling centre, and provided parent education, training, resources, and community support.
Nepal is among the poorest and least developed countries in the world. The girls who come to us have often been left out of the formal school system entirely. Nepal House Society (Canada) raises funds for operating costs, supports our local Nepalese staff, and sends teachers and therapists to volunteer on the ground.
Every gift is a vote of confidence in girls the rest of the system has overlooked.
Our philosophy
From the beginning, we refused the model where funders overseas dictate how the work gets done. Our team in Nepal practices in a way that is culturally relevant, sets their own fair wages, requests the training and resources they need, and governs themselves day to day.
Nepal House Kaski staff make all day-to-day decisions about how the school, counselling, and community work is run.
Nepal House Society raises operating funds, sends volunteer teachers and therapists, and provides free clinical supervision.
Pokhara, Nepal
Pokhara is the tourism capital of Nepal — nestled in the foothills of the Annapurna mountains, home to three of the ten highest peaks in the world. Beyond the postcard, it is also home to one of the world's poorest and least developed countries.
Nepal House supports the at-risk children who would otherwise never set foot in a classroom.
The children we serve
01 · The context
It is a country riddled by poverty, natural disasters, political unrest, family trauma, high rates of abuse and a lack of community resources.
Many young children live on the streets and are at risk of trafficking due to these issues. Nepal House supports at-risk children who don't have the opportunity to go to school.
02 · Inside Nepal House
Our therapists use a combination of traditional healing practices such as 'mindful sound' and breath meditation, along with evidence based western approaches such as play, art and trauma focused therapy to effect change.
Our therapists provide a safe haven and hope for healing for those they work with.
03 · Family & community
This includes employment strategies for parents, nutrition, education about child safety (emotional and physical), safe housing and access to other community supports.
NHK staff also provide staff training and support at local orphanages. All this is offered free of charge to those who need it.
Our clinical approach
Our therapists combine traditional Nepali healing practices — like mindful sound and breath meditation — with evidence-based Western approaches such as play, art, and trauma-focused therapy. The result is care that is both clinically rigorous and culturally rooted.
Traditional Nepalese healing practices that ground children in their bodies and cultural roots.
Evidence-based modalities that let children express what words can't yet hold.
Western clinical frameworks adapted for systemic, intergenerational trauma.
Every NHK counsellor receives ongoing supervision from Canadian therapists at no cost.
Free of charge
Education, uniforms, meals, and therapy. Always — no family ever pays a rupee.
Meet the team in Nepal
The staff at Nepal House are highly experienced, professional counsellors and teachers with post-secondary training across health, education, sociology, rural development and the Montessori approach. They are passionate about supporting children, youth, families and the local community — with mental health, education, and emotional literacy at the heart of their work.
Counsellor, Director & Co-Founder
15 years with NHK
Counsellor
15 years with NHK
Counsellor
5 years with NHK
Teacher
12 years with NHK
Teacher
12 years with NHK
Teacher
12 years with NHK
Chef & Office Assistant
8 years with NHK
Liaison (NHK & NHS)
8 years with NHK
Parents & community
Lasting change requires the family. We run programs for parents navigating poverty, abuse, and inequality — and we train staff at local orphanages and rescue centres so safer environments exist long after a child leaves our doors.
Before you give
Childhood, care, and resilience
Give with confidence
Every dollar is tracked. Every gift translates directly into care, healing, and education.
Monthly support is the backbone of our work. Recurring donations let us plan ahead, hire dedicated counsellors, and know that each girl will have school fees covered year-round. They are deeply appreciated and provide the stability our children and families depend on.
One-time and annual gifts are equally valued and make an immediate, tangible difference — whether funding an emergency medical visit, replacing supplies after monsoon damage, or simply giving us the flexibility to respond when needs arise. You're welcome to give once or set up an annual gift, whichever suits you best.
Provides a girl with her school uniform, daily hot meals, and essential learning supplies for the month.
Funds weekly play and art therapy sessions, plus meals and supplies, for a child healing from trauma.
Sponsors a girl's full year of schooling — education, uniforms, meals, and ongoing therapeutic care.
Give a one-time gift of any amount. Every dollar funds care, healing, and education in Pokhara.
Where your money goes
Nepal House Society is run almost entirely by volunteers in Canada, so the money you give goes directly to the children, families and community we serve in Pokhara.
Teacher salaries, classroom materials, school uniforms, and learning supplies for every girl in our school.
Hot, nourishing breakfasts, lunches, and snacks served every school day — never a child sent home hungry.
Counsellor salaries, play and art therapy supplies, and regular medical, dental and eye checkups.
Workshops on parenting, child safety, nutrition, and employment strategies for families in need.
Rent, utilities, and maintenance for the school and counselling centre in Pokhara.
Ongoing professional development and free clinical supervision from Canadian therapists.
Our history
Two decades of small, deliberate steps — from one therapist's visit to a therapeutic school, an earthquake response, and a dream of Nepal's first mental health centre.
2005
Canadian children's therapist Ashwin Sharma is invited to work with children at an orphanage near Pokhara. His Nepali colleagues Basanta Subedi and Shiva Thipa become the first in Nepal trained to run a play therapy room.
2011
With seed funding from a 14-year-old American boy, Nepal House Kaski opens its Therapeutic School for Girls — one kindergarten class of twelve. It has since grown into a respected multi-year school.
2013
NHK begins supporting incarcerated boys, some as young as ten, imprisoned for crimes often rooted in poverty and untreated mental illness.
2015
After the devastating Nepal earthquake, NHS mobilizes funds for water, food and shelter — and rebuilds a village of twenty-six homes in the District of Gorkha.
2018
Counsellors begin extending support to parents of NHK students and any other adults in the community who need help.
2020
During COVID-19 lockdowns, with day-labour families unable to earn or buy food, NHS twice distributes rice, lentils, oil, tea and sugar to keep families fed.
2020
NHS hosts its first international Hike for Healing, raising $42,000 — enough to raise the salaries of NHK staff.
2023
NHS and NHK commemorate fifteen years of service to the children and families of Nepal.
Next
We are dreaming big — fundraising to one day build Nepal's first dedicated mental health care centre.
Your gift today funds the uniforms, meals, and therapy a girl in Pokhara needs to walk into school tomorrow morning.
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