Quilts for Kids Nepal is a microfinance project, based in Kathmandu, Nepal. It's mission is to provide work for economically-challenged women and to finance education for underprivileged children.

Founded in 2006, the project operates in an encampment of Indian street beggars located in a large field in the Boudhanath neighborhood of Kathmandu. 

100% of your donation to Quilts for Kids Nepal goes to fund women's salaries as well as school tuition, school uniforms, shoes, pencils, books and backpacks for the kids.

LATEST NEWS FROM THE VILLAGE (January 2010):

New "Study House: In October we built a little (TV-free) study house in the village. Kids come here after school every day to do their homework.  If you'd like to volunteer to help the kids with their homework or to practice speaking English, come on down -- this is the place!

YouTube Premiere!: Special thanks to Paul MacGowan at Vanguard Productions for shooting and editing our great little YouTube video (above).

Twenty-five Kids Now in School!  Thanks to the generosity of our kind sponsors, there are now a total of 25 kids enrolled in the Kumari Elementary School, as of January 2010.  This is a group of great kids who would otherwise be begging on the streets of Kathmandu.   (Here's a photo of Washna Phelwar, age 6, getting her new school books to start kindergarden class)

educating children
$140 can change a life!

By the age of 7, children from the begging camp, especially girls, are sent into the streets to beg.

By purchasing a quilt or sponsoring a child, you directly fund the education of a child, giving her or him the skills necessary to make meaningful contribution to the village.  In this way, you can directly effect social change and give one of these children a bright future.

empowering women
buying a quilt creates jobs!

Many women in the community are excellent quilt-makers – with a skillful and imaginative ability to describe their world through needle and thread.

Quilts for Kids seeks to empower these women by giving them an opportunity to turn their traditional skills into income for their families. The program teaches young women a marketable craft and enhances the overall standing of women in the community through the sale of quilts.

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