Right now

Two needs our regular giving doesn’t reach yet.

Most of what you give keeps every child we walk alongside in school, year after year. This page is different: specific needs, each with a cost and a date, that we raise for separately. When a need is met, it comes off this page, and we tell you how it went.

A riverside town buried in silt after the floods.

Uma speaking into a microphone at an event, smiling — Uma speaking at an event in Kathmandu, September 2026.

Uma at Dashain with tika on her forehead, standing outside between her two brothers — At Dashain with her brothers.

Black-and-white photo of three young girls at Bal Mandir with a volunteer, all smiling — At Bal Mandir with volunteers, aged about eight. Year unknown.

Appeal 01 · EducationOpen

Uma is ready for university.

Uma grew up at Bal Mandir in Kathmandu, a long way from her home district of Rukum West. At eighteen she had to leave and make her own way, and Pooja has walked alongside her since.

For nearly three years she has worked, first at a data-collection company and now editing photographs. A second-hand laptop from a supporter was her way into technology, and technology is where she wants to build her life.

She has been accepted onto the Bachelor in Computer Applications (BCA) at Nagarjuna College of Information and Technology in Kathmandu. Her salary covers the basics of living, not a degree. So we are raising for it directly, and Bhagya Nepal pays the college and suppliers itself.

In Uma’s words

My passion has always been to study IT. I love the power of AI and what it can do, and I want to study it so that one day I can be part of the AI revolution. I want to be independent, so that I can support myself and my brothers’ education and lives, and be a good role model for them.

Uma

What the $6,500 covers

Admission and enrolment fees
Tuition · all eight semesters
Textbooks
A laptop that works
Daily transport to campus

Where it stands

Needed in total: $6,500
Given so far · 8 gifts, updated 8 October 2026: $1,727
Still needed: $4,773

Gifts to this appeal go to Uma’s degree. If we receive more than it needs, the rest goes to [BN to decide], and we will say so here.

Give by bank transfer Give on GoFundMe

By bank transfer, use the reference UMA

Started by Callie Fauntleroy, a member of our Advisory Board. Bhagya Nepal manages the money and pays every cost directly.

Rescue workers in helmets and orange vests walking through grey flood debris between collapsed buildings — Rescue teams searching collapsed buildings after the flood.

Appeal 02 · Flood reliefOpen

57 families in Rasuwa, before winter.

Delivered together with
HOPE worldwide Nepal

On the morning of 26 August, an ice-and-rock avalanche high in the Lende Khola, on Nepal’s border with Tibet, sent a surge of water and debris down the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli rivers. It tore through Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading and reached as far downstream as Chitwan.

More than 1,450 people have been confirmed dead and thousands are still missing. In Syabrubesi, more than 400 houses and the whole market were swept away, along with the bridges across the river. For weeks the only way in was by helicopter; a cable crossing now carries a few dozen people a day.

57 families who lost their homes are living in temporary shelter at Shree Komin Shaymey Wangphel School, the Komin holding centre in Syabrubesi. Winter is arriving in the mountains, and they have nothing to keep them warm. This Dashain, with HOPE worldwide Nepal, we are bringing them warm clothes, blankets, clean water and medical supplies.

This is a special fund, for this relief only. Once everything is delivered, we will publish what reached the families, with photographs of the work.

Figures as reported by ICIMOD, The Himalayan Tribune, OnlineKhabar and The Kathmandu Post.

A brown wall of floodwater and debris surging down a narrow forested gorge — The flood arriving, filmed from the hillsides above the river.

Grey floodwater filling the valley floor below green hills — The flood arriving, filmed from the hillsides above the river.

What we are providing for 57 families

Winter protection

Down jackets
Woollen shawls
Fleece blankets
Winter hats and thermal socks

Health and hygiene

Water filters
Electrolytes
Medical supplies

Where it stands

Needed in total: $3,000
Given so far · updated 8 October 2026: $852
Still needed: $2,148

Gifts to this appeal go to relief for families hit by the floods. If we receive more than they need, the rest goes to [BN to decide], and we will say so here.

Give by bank transfer

By bank transfer, use the reference RASUWA

Giving to an appeal

Same accounts. One word in the reference.

Give through Bhagya Nepal’s usual account and write the appeal’s name in the reference, so we know where your gift is meant to go.

For Uma’s degreeUMA

For Rasuwa flood reliefRASUWA

A gift without a reference goes to the everyday work: every child, every year.

Uma’s university degree: you can also give on GoFundMe.

Bank transfer

From Nepal or from abroad.

Bank: Laxmi Sunrise Bank Limited, Nepal
Account name: Bhagya Nepal
Account no.: 2521647130011160
SWIFT: LXBLNPKA
Reference: UMA or RASUWA

Venmo also works from the U.S.: the details are on the Donate page. Received by Carolyn (Callie) Fauntleroy, a member of our Advisory Board, and passed on to Bhagya Nepal. Add UMA or RASUWA to your note.

Tell us you’ve given We’ll confirm it arrived, and where it went.

When an appeal closes

We stop asking, and we show you what it did.

We say so here.

The week a need is met, it is marked met on this page and the asking stops.

We account for it.

What the money paid for, line by line, with dates. Photographs where everyone in them has agreed.

It moves on.

Relief work joins Beyond Bhagya Nepal. A person’s story moves to Stories only if they want it to.

And the everyday work goes on

Every child’s story is still being written.

Most children we walk alongside will never have an appeal. Their school, their mentor and the years after depend on steady, ordinary giving.

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