Welcome to
Nepal House
Nepal House (Kaski) is a non-profit community social services agency in Pokhara, Nepal. We run a children’s school and counselling centre and provide parent education, training, resources and community support.
We have been serving the region for 15 years.
Nepal House Society (Canada) raises funds for operating costs, provides training and support to Nepal House staff and sends teachers and therapists to volunteer at Nepal House.
Pokhara is considered the tourism capital of Nepal. Nestled in the foothills of the Annapurna Mountains, it is the base for trekkers undertaking the Annapurna Circuit (home to three of the ten highest mountains in the world).
Nepal is amongst the poorest and least developed countries in the world.
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.
At Nepal House, children receive education, uniforms, meals and therapy.
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.
We also provide parents’ programs for families dealing with issues that come with poverty, abuse and inequality.
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.
We believe in autonomy.
Since our inception, we wanted to be different and make a difference. We did not want to duplicate a process where the funders who lived oversees dictated to the workers on the ground how things should be done.
From the outset, we gave our team in Nepal the ability to practice in a way that was culturally relevant, set their own wages at a fair rate, to ask for particular training, tools and resources and the ability to make day-to-day decisions about how the organization is run.
The staff at Nepal House Kaski govern themselves and make their own decisions. Nepal House Society (based in Canada) handles fundraising, carefully selects volunteer teachers and counsellors to provide education and training at Nepal House Kaski, and provides clinical supervision (standard for all counsellors and therapists) at no charge. .