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Nepal House Society

Registered Name: NEPAL HOUSE SOCIETY

Business No: 848801189RR0001

NHS provides trauma counselling and education to at risk girls. NHS also trains teachers, orphanage staff and social workers in trauma work

Nepal House Society

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Nepal House Society is a not for profit society whose aims are to provide therapeutic support to the children of Nepal. The organization in Nepal will provide direct service to children in the form of art, play, talk and skill or asset building therapy. The goals of Nepal House Society of BC are to provide support to the organization in Nepal in the form of financial, moral, educational and therapeutic support.

In 2005 a play therapy room was set up in Bhakunde; a small village outside of Pokhara. This play therapy room was utilized by the children of the local orphanage. A therapist from Vancouver was invited by a German NGO that ran this orphanage to support some of their children. A Nepali teacher and a health practitioner who worked with the children at the orphanage became interested in how art, play and therapy could be used to support and promote healing in children. These two men became the first students in Nepal to learn how to use the play therapy room and provide opportunities for children to engage with this modality. This blossomed into many fruitful dialogues and eventually to the establishment of Nepal House Kaski (in Nepal) and Nepal House Society (in B.C.) in 2007. In 2011 Nepal House opened its School for Girls and a Chapter of NHS started in the United States. In 2013 we started to support young incarcerated men, some as young as 10 years old who were imprisoned for various crimes, many that were linked to dire poverty or mental health issues. In 2015 our staff supported those who were traumatized by the April 25 Earthquake that killed over 9000 people and had a direct hand in the re-building of a village near the epi-center of the earthquake. In 2017-18 NHS and NHK will commemorate ten years of service to the children of Nepal.

Nepal House also seeks to train students coming out of University or College in Nepal who are interested in working with and supporting children who are under the influence of trauma, abuse, neglect, violence and poverty. At present there is no infrastructure in Nepal to provide internships and supervision to those interested in doing therapeutic work with children. Nepal House Society of BC will aim to provide training and supervise students as they acquire the skills to work directly with children.

REGISTERED CHARITY ADDRESS

7711 147A ST

SURREY, BC, V3S 8Z4

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