PENNY FOR NEPAL TO HELP CHILDREN

Youths in Reading, United Kingdom have launched a programme “a penny for Nepal” with a view to providing support in education and health for the poor children of Nepal.

Altogether 14 Nepalese youths living in Reading have established the “child-focussed development organisation with no religious, political or governmental affiliations” to work with children, their families and helping to implement projects in Health, Education, Water and Sanitation in Nepal.

The charity has been registered in the UK and they have launched the website It says: “Its objectives are to relieve poverty and distress and advance the education and health of the children of Nepal by the provision of financial assistance and a sponsorship scheme and by such other charitable purposes for the benefit of the children as the trustees shall in their absolute discretion from time to time determine.”

Bal Krishna Dahal, one of the founders of the charity, said members of the charity have launched massive campaign for fund raising and have distributed nearly 400 “a penny collection pots” in Reading, Aldershot, Farnborough, Plumstead, London and other areas where a large number of Nepalese live, and members have donated certain amount of fund for the needy children of Nepal.

“We will collect the necessary amounts once we get proposal from Nepal,” Dahal said. “Our main target is rural remote areas of Nepal, he said, adding that those who are living under the burden of poverty and have not been able to get basic of the basic rights like education, health and sanitation.

The youths’ vision is to live in a world in which all Nepalese children have the opportunity to realise their potential in societies, which respect people's rights and dignities.

The ambitious goals of this charity say the founders, is to relieve poverty and distress and advance the education and health of the children of Nepal by the provision of financial assistance and a sponsorship scheme.
The initiative of the Nepalese youths has been well appreciated by other youths and Nepalese communities in the United Kingdom.