Our Project

People from around the world have travelled to Nepal for various reasons - to see the majestic Himalayas with their own eyes, experience the diverse and vibrant culture, to walk through the ancient temples and stupa’s or maybe just to be here with spiritual and friendly people of the mountains. A visit to this tiny nation in the Himalayas has so much to offer that your first visit is definitely, never going to be the last. 

The 7.8 magnitude earthquake on April the 25th that rocked Nepal has left over 8000 people dead, over 20,000 people injured and more than half a million people homeless in remote villages. As the people suffer, the Nepalese people have come together to aid their suffering fellow citizens and have truly revealed their strength and self-reliance, their equanimity, friendliness and spirituality even in such difficult times. With the recent natural disaster of earthquake that had affected almost everyone, Karunamaya Foundation Nepal has taken up the responsibility of supporting Laprak village, a once beautiful Gurung village of 611 households and 3500 people, only 6 hours walk from Barpak, the epicenter. The entire village of Laprak has been flattened to the ground, including the local school that provided education to over 600 children, and the local health post.

As the land of the village has been deemed vulnerable to possible landslides due to the earthquake, the people have been forced to seek refuge in higher grounds in areas up to 2700 meters. Living in such difficult terrains is not easy even during normal conditions and now, they have been left without adequate shelter, without food, safe drinking water, electricity, communication and most importantly, without access to the little agricultural land in those steep hills they used to rely on. KFN in partnership with the locals of Laprak provided essential medicines for the temporary clinic, basic sanitation materials, GI sheets for temporary shelter to 150 households, solar lights for public spaces and to the students of class 10 to enable them to study in those difficult conditions for their upcoming board exams. 

Karunamaya Foundation Nepal also initiated the project ‘Adopt a Village’ with friends from Malaysia which supported the people of Laprak and helped rebuild the small village by providing them the much-needed support of construction materials and solar panels to rebuild their houses and install the panels to help provide water and electricity.