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Heart of Nepal

Indrawati, Sindhupalchowk · Est. 2020

Dalit and Janajati familiesdeserve more than survival.

Exclusion has worn many names — poverty, neglect, invisibility. At Heart of Nepal, we're rewriting that story alongside the people who already practice resistance, survival, and care. One meal, one mother, one child at a time.

Dignity. Justice. Belonging.

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A grandmother holds her grandchild on the porch of their home in Indrawati, neighbours seated behind.

Founded 2020 Indrawati, Nepal UN Young Leader 2025

How we work

Built by local hands, sustained by shared purpose.

Three pillars run alongside each other in Sipapokhare Ward 7 and Bhimtar Ward 12 — chosen by the women and children of Indrawati, not by us.

Educate

Classrooms that hold children

Six tuition centres, scholarships, and teacher training keep Dalit and Janajati children inside the school day — and inside their own futures.

1,500+ children

Nourish

Annadan — the mid-day meal

Mothers cook a school-day meal twice a week, using vegetables from school and home kitchen gardens. Care that the community already practices, formalised.

730,000+ meals shared

Empower

Women decide, then build

Twenty women's self-help groups run savings circles, livestock livelihoods, and home enterprise. When women hold the rupees, the village changes shape.

500+ women leading
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Impact in Indrawati
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Dropouts (2024–25)

Reported 2024–25 · co-audited with Foundation CIAO KIDS

From the field

A kitchen, a classroom, a savings tin.
WSHG members gather as the elected secretary writes the day's savings entries in the group ledger, Bhimtar Ward 12.

Story · Savings group

Maya's ledger.

Maya keeps the meeting minutes for her WSHG. She was elected secretary three rotations ago and has held the position by acclamation since. Her ledger entries are the village's audit trail — and the reason a goat loan in Ward 12 gets repaid on time.

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A year in Indrawati

The work, photographed without rescue language.
Mothers of the school kitchen ladle rice and lentils into steel bowls for the queue of children at the Bhimtar partner school.
Two students in uniform at the Sipapokhare Ward 7 tuition centre, posing for the camera in the schoolyard.
Members of a women's self-help group sit together for a quarterly review meeting, Indrawati.
A WSHG member stands in the kitchen garden she tends — broccoli, mustard greens and seedling rows behind her.
Four members of the child-club assembly hold their plates of khichdi and ceremonial marigold garlands after the morning gathering.
A grandmother holds her grandchild on the porch of the community house, Indrawati — neighbours in conversation behind her.

Recognition

  • UN Youth Office
  • Vital Voices
  • Foundation CIAO KIDS
  • Globethics
  • Estée Lauder Beautiful Forces

Fund community-owned change.

Heart of Nepal is small, founder-visible, and answerable to the women and children we work with. Your gift lands directly with their programs.

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