The Latest News about the Nepal Youth Foundation

NYF earns its fifth consecutive four-star rating!
Because of our exceptional fiscal management, NYF just received its fourth four-star rating – the highest possible – from Charity Navigator, America's largest evaluator of charities. Only 4% of the charities evaluated receive five consecutive four-star ratings. This indicates our extremely efficient and effective implementation of the funds that you, our donors, contribute.
September 29, 2011

Video: from the "untouchable" caste to medical school!
Watch a video about Barsa's successes, and learn about NYF's innovative Empowering Dalit Daughters program.
October 25, 2010

Prem will be the first engineer in a caste of beggars
A scholarship from the Nepal Youth Foundation is giving him unimagined opportunities to fulfill his dreams. Read the heartwarming story on the Nepali news website HamroSamaj.net.
October 6, 2010

Come to Susan Bostrom-Wong's
Open Studio
Come to Open Studio, an art show in San Francisco featuring the work of Susan Bostrom-Wong! You can see a selection of Susan’s art at www.SusanBostromWong.com. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Nepal Youth Foundation (NYF). You can also win one of Susan's paintings in a raffle to benefit NYF.

Saturday, Oct. 23 & Sunday, Oct. 24, 11am – 6pm
493 8th Avenue (between Geary and Anza),
San Francisco, 94118. 415-751-2122
October 4, 2010

A hair salon held a fundraiser to rescue enslaved Nepali girls!
Salon Amour in Walnut Creek, California donated 100% of their proceeds for a day to NYF, and raised $5,000 – enough to rescue 50 girls! Find out more about how they did it. Can you hold a fundraiser, too? Read about many creative and fun ways you can help NYF rescue needy children.
September 30, 2010

Read Olga's latest appeal letter!
In Olga's fall 2010 appeal letter, she tells the story of Prem, a boy from a caste of wandering beggars who is about to become the first engineer in his caste. She also invites you to join NYF's Legacy Circle by including us in your will.
September 10, 2010

Interview about NYF's new HIV/AIDS project!
Read a new interview in the Examiner with Ranju Pandey, the project manager in Nepal, and Gregg Tully, NYF's development director. The New Life Center provides lifesaving treatment to children with HIV/AIDS while teaching their parents how HIV-positive people can lead healthy, fulfilling lives.
August 19, 2010

NYF rescues struggling HIV/AIDS program in Nepal!
Read about NYF's new support for the New Life Center in the Marinscope newspaper. The Center provides livesaving treatment for children with HIV/AIDS while training their mothers to avoid infections and cook nutritious food. Learn all about the New Life Center on NYF's website!
August 10, 2010

A new non-profit in Hong Kong will raise money for NYF
Some of NYF's dedicated supporters in Hong Kong are forming a new non-profit organization called Olga's Promise expressly to raise money for the Nepal Youth Foundation's programs in Nepal.
August 6, 2010

NYF's new HIV/AIDS project in the Marin Independent Journal!
The New Life Center is mentioned in the Marin Independent Journal. It transforms the lives of children with born with HIV. Read more about the New Life Center on NYF's website.
August 4, 2010

NYF has just started to rescue children with HIV/AIDS!
The New Life Center provides excellent treatment to children with HIV/AIDS while teaching their parents to live hygienically and cook nutritious meals. This training dramatically reduces the risk of acquiring the illnesses that make HIV develop into AIDS, and lets HIV-infected people lead fulfilling lives. Find out more about this pioneering project!
August 3, 2010

Olga Murray describes falling in love with Nepal.
She also discusses NYF’s diverse programs for children and the organization's plans for the future, in an interview in the Napa Valley Register.
August 2, 2010

Read about how Rotary Clubs help the disabled in Nepal.
This article in Rotarian magazine also features Nirmala, a girls who was rescued by the Nepal Youth Foundation.
July 30, 2010

New article about a boy with a terrible disease who is now a lawyer!
Read a new article in The Kathmandu Post about Olga Murray and a boy born with an awful medical condition who, thanks to the Nepal Youth Foundation, is now healthy and is a lawyer!
July 25, 2010

Read an interview about NYF's life-changing projects!
Read an interview with NYF's Development Director, Gregg Tully, about NYF's work to end child slavery in Nepal, scholarships, and children's homes. Also watch a video in which a blind Nepali girl describes the happiest moment in her life.
July 18, 2010

Watch ABC TV's video about Olga's 85th birthday party!
The story shows the results of the decades she has spent helping Nepali Children.
June 25, 2010

Olga is a model of what people can do after retirement
This article, in Engage As You Age, describes how she founded NYF and the celebration of her 85th birthday.
June 21, 2010

Read an article about Olga's 85th birthday party!
Olga celebrated with 200 friends in San Francisco. The Sausalito MarinScope describes the event, and all the kinds words people had about Olga.
June 16, 2010

Happy Birthday Olga Mummy! A video from NYF's children.
Watch this adorable video of the children of J and K House, the Nepal Youth Foundation's excellent homes for children, sending Olga Murray birthday greetings.
June 14, 2010

See photos, video, and an article about Olga's 85th birthday party! Olga Murray celebrated her birthday with 200 of her friends. The party was held in San Francisco on June 11. Read about the event on HamroSamaj.net.
June 12, 2010

A celebration of Olga's 85th birthday and NYF's 20th anniversary,
and their accomplishments over the years. Read the Marin Independent Journal article!
June 12, 2010

NYF has rescued close to 10,000 girls from slave-like servitude!
More than 3,500 have been saved in the current year alone. NYF will soon eliminate the tradition of selling girls.
June 4, 2010

Watch a video of Olga Murray and NYF on ABC TV News!
Learn about NYF's recent success towards eliminating child slavery in Nepal.
May 24, 2010

Read this National Geographic article about modern-day slavery!
Children are still enslaved in Nepal. The article describes NYF's successful work to end it.
May 7, 2010

Listen to an interview with Olga Murray on Global Online radio!
The interview, by Sagun Basnet for Himali Sworharu Nepali Online Radio, is in English and is half an hour long.
May 5, 2010

Read Olga's latest email from Nepal, about a trip to the jungle!
In her May 2010 email, Olga describes the fun of bringing the younger kids NYF supports on a safari in the jungle! She also writes about how the older kids nurture and look after the younger ones, and a very unique alarm clock.
May 4, 2010

Take a look at an article about NYF in the Marin Human Race!
The article gives an overview of NYF and why Olga Murray founded it, and describes how you can get involved in the Marin Human Race on Saturday, May 8! (Scroll halfway down the page to see the article.)
May 1, 2010

Read an excellent new interview with Olga Murray
about what inspired her to help Nepali children, how it led to founding
NYF, and what motivates her to continue this life-changing work!
April 24, 2010

Read a moving article about the fighting malnutrition in Nepal!
It discusses NYF's Nutritional Rehabilitation Homes, which restore severely malnourished children to good health while training their mothers in nutrition and child care.
April 14, 2010

Read an interview on the Human Trafficking Project website!
Olga Murray and Gregg Tully discuss the tradition in rural Nepal of selling girls into bonded servitude and NYF's project to end this practice.
April 13, 2010

Support NYF's team in the Marin Human Race!
Please donate to sponsor the people who are running in this race on behalf of NYF. Any donation you give will make a huge difference in the lives of impoverished children in Nepal.

You can also join our team and walk/run the race with us, on Saturday, May 8 in San Rafael, California! You can find out more and sign up at MarinHumanRace.org (click "join our team"), or contact us at info@NepalYouthFoundation.org or 1-866-FOR-NYOF.
April 5, 2010

New video about NYF's Nutritional Rehabilitation Homes saving lives!
NYF's Nutritional Rehabilitation Homes restore severely malnourished children to good health while educating their mothers about nutrition and child care. This video shows how it happens.
April 2, 2010

Watch a new video: Bikash describes life in NYF's children's homes
Bikash is one of the many impoverished children whose lives have been transformed by the Nepal Youth Foundation. See his first-hand description of his life at one of NYF's children's homes.
March 30, 2010

Read two new interviews with NYF's founder Olga Murray!
Read an interview in Examiner.com with Olga Murray and Gregg Tully, about NYF's work to rescue Nepali girls who have been sold into bonded servitude. Also take a look at an interview with Olga about what inspired her to begin helping destitute children in Nepal, and how NYF has changed since she founded it.
March 22, 2010

Join NYF for an art auction fundraiser!
On March 21 in Foster City, California (in the San Francisco Bay Area), "Invisible Hand of the Philanthropist" is holding a fundraiser for NYF and several other nonprofits. Come look at the beautiful paintings, and bid on them in the auction! Find out more
March 10, 2010

Read Olga Murray's latest email dispatch from Nepal!
Olga's February 2010 email is about Manoj, a young boy from a deeply troubled family who just joined J House, and the warm welcome he received from the other children. You can also watch a video in which Olga describes NYF's projects to
transform the lives of impoverished Nepali youth.
March 1, 2010

Read an excellent article about Olga's life and NYF's projects!
The article in the South China Morning Post covers Olga's life story beginning from childhood, NYF's efforts to rescue Nepali girls from bonded servitude, and the organization's other projects in Nepal.
February 25, 2010

Olga Murray and NYF work to eliminate the sale of girls in Nepal
Impoverished families in rural Nepal sell their daughters as bonded servants, but NYF's innovative program rescues the girls and sends them to school. Read the in-depth article in Associated Content.
January 16, 2010

Ad agency initiates media campaign to end indentured servitude
A Nepali advertising agency joins with NYF to organize a widespread media campaign to end the abhorrent tradition of selling Nepali girls into slavery. Take a look at the story in The Himalayan Times.
January 15, 2010

NYF and Olga Murray hold a press conference about child bondage
Olga and Som Paneru, NYF's Executive Director in Nepal, hold a press conference to raise awareness about the shocking custom of selling young girls into bonded servitude. Read about Olga and Som in The Himalayan Times.
January 13, 2010

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