Mitrata Nepal Foundation for Children, Inc provides shelter, medical care and educational opportunities for underprivileged children in Nepal. This is accomplished by fundraising activities, linking children in Nepal with sponsors and operationally supporting a group home for children in Kathmandu run by the Mitrata Nepal Foundation (an NGO in Nepal). We are dedicated to supporting these children into adulthood, assisting them in becoming healthy, economically independent, educated Nepali citizens who have the opportunity to pursue happiness in life. Our organization provides direct financial support, utilizing unpaid volunteers in the USA, who are committed to keeping marketing, advertising, management and fundraising expenses to a minimum (15%) or less.
Stark Statistics on the state of children in Nepal
More than 50,000 children die in Nepal each year, with malnutrition as the underlying cause for more than 60 per cent of these deaths (Source: UNICEF)
Nepal is going through a sensitive and fluid political situation. The decade-long Maoist insurgency has taken a toll of about 13,000 lives. The conflict has hampered the delivery of basic services, restricted development assistance and caused a breakdown of family and community networks. Its heaviest impacts fall on women and children. (Source: UNICEF)
The Journey of Mitrata
Although Mitrata-Nepal Foundation for Children, Inc was established n 2005 in the United States, the seeds of Mitrata-Nepal Foundation for Children, Inc were sewn in 2002. Mitrata, which means friendship in Nepali, was born out of the deep connection between Nanda Kulu from Nepal and Dr. Christine Schutz from the USA, people of different cultures but with the same heart. Traveling together in the mountains outside Kathmandu, they found a homeless girl and decided to bring her into the city and care for her. With only a few hundred dollars that Dr. Schutz had brought from friends’ donations in the USA, they opened a children’s home in Naya Bazaar, Kathmandu. Mrs. Kulu, who had originally founded the NGO in Nepal in 2000, had always had a dream to establish a good home for underprivileged children. With the help of Dr. Schutz in the USA, this dream became a reality.