Nepal Village Foundation (UK)

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Namaste (Hello) and welcome to the Nepal Village Foundation website, we are an independent, recognised UK based charity Supporting the poorest Nepalese communities, Dallits (untouchable) and individuals to improve their livelyhoods. NVFs projects are mainly involved in long term poverty reduction, girl’s education, gender equality, health education for mothers, sanitation, encouraging farmers to grow better crops and help to expand their fair trading market, social cohesion and promote eco-tourism.

Why Nepal? Nepal is the poorest country in the South East Asia Continent and more than half of population live under the poverty line, especially in the southern part of the country. 1000s children die every year from preventable diseases, due to the lack of literacy and poor health services. Unemployment is big problem mainly after the end of the farming season as majority of families rely on farming.   

Our commitment  

  Nepal Village Foundation will make sure that our partner organisations reach out to the most distant of the rural villages and work with them to provide the most basic things such as milk, bread, safe drinking water, mosquito net and shelter. Please make your contribution of at least £2.00 a week today to make it happen.

Money Values in Nepal

£1 equals Rs 130 Rupees, £100 pays a girls education expenses for the whole year, £3.00 buys a double size mosquito net, £0.20 buys a note book, £1.00 buys a study text book, £900 pays a girls education up to GCSE level, £20 to provide health & hygiene education to a woman, £35 buys a season’s seeds for small farm, £50 provides a bore hole for clean drinking water, £2500 builds a pukka (brick) house for a family, £6000 establishes a learning resource centre with first aid facilities and much more.

Project Pathway:   We adopt the most basic principals of livelihood development techniques and work hard to make it successfull.

NVFs route to rural development

Tourism in the Terai: When the wider world thinks about Nepal they normally think about Mount Everest, Himalayas, Mountains and Kathmandu but there is a huge subtropical, beautiful, flat landscape where 48% of total population live. This is known as the Terai and offers you surprises such as magical birth place of Buddha who was founder of Buddhism. visit tourism in the Terai web page for further details.

Few words from David & Pamela about tourism in the Terai 

Most people who visit Nepal concentrate on Kathmandu and trekking in the Himalayas and completely miss the Terai.  This is a wonderful area on the border with India with a completely different landscape, mainly low lying with wide rivers, extensive grassland and woodland.  We have just spent a great holiday in this area.  For anyone interested in wildlife and visiting a completely different way of life this area is a must.  We visited one of the most important birding areas in region, if not Asia, is found at the Eastern end – Koshi. The mixture of extensive wet lands, riverine forest and cultivated land attracts a wide range of rarities, migrants and birds on passage to and from northern and central Asia, as well as birds from the Himalayas during the winter.  We were not disappointed; the birding was tremendous seeing well over 200 bird species during our stay as well as Wild Water Buffalo and Gangetic Dolphin, Jungle and Fishing Cats. 

Further west in the Chitwan and Bardia National Parks,we found a different range of birds as well as Tiger, Great One-Horned Rhinoceros, Sloth Bear, Leopard, Wild Elephant and many other mammals.

Great wild life, very friendly and helpful people, who live a fascinatingly different way of life to the mountain dwellers, this is an area not to be missed. 

David & Pam Petts