Nepal Orphans Home

Nepal Orphans Home is a 501(c)(3) charity incorporated in Davidson, North Carolina, with operations in Nepal as Papa's House NGO. Nepal Orphans Home attends to the welfare of children in Nepal who are orphaned, abandoned, or not supported by their parents. 

Nepal Orphans Home (NOH) is listed on GuideStar, a leading source of information on U.S. non-profits. In 2024, for the fifth year in a row, Nepal Orphans Home earned the Platinum Seal of Transparency, the highest recognition, placing us in the top 1% of the 1.7 million nonprofit organizations on GuideStar, and demonstrating NOH’s strong commitment to transparency in its mission and operations. The NOH profile on GuideStar includes recent annual reports and 990 forms, available as public record. None of the members of the NOH Board of Directors receives compensation for their service.  

In 2024, Nepal Orphans Home began its twentieth year, providing for young children living with Papa’s House, supporting adolescents living in transition housing while attending college preparatory classes, and funding the higher education of young adults living independently and studying in university. The Chelsea Education and Community Center (CECC) entered its twelfth year of academic enrichment and life skills training for the Papa’s House children and its tenth year of free literacy classes to over a hundred local women in Dhapasi. NOH Outreach continued providing assistance throughout Nepal, including to the Goldhunga Blind Children’s Home and Kanti Children’s Hospital.

There are thirteen Papa’s House children attending Skylark School in grades 7-10 and living with family or Papa’s House guardians. NOH is supporting fifteen young adults in university in Nepal, in programs including social work, computer science, hospital care management, business studies, fine arts, hotel management, and civil engineering. They are living independently with family or friends and receiving monthly stipends for food and rent. In addition, thirteen young adults are studying in foreign universities: four in Australia, three in Germany, and one each in Finland, Japan, Canada, and the U.S.

Last year was pivotal in the transition of Papa’s House NGO, with new management in Nepal, establishment of a new Papa’s House NGO Board of Directors, and the phasing out of childcare at Papa’s House, according to the mandates of a new act passed by the National Child Rights Council of Nepal. With the aging of our children, progressing from elementary school to college preparatory classes to young adults leaving Papa’s House for university or transitioning into independent living, the number of children provided for in Papa’s Houses had already been declining. We realized that in the future the Chelsea Education and Community Center will be the primary operations.

Under the leadership of Sushmita Thapa, in her second year as the new Director of Operations of Papa’s House NGO, the Chelsea Center continues its programs of adult literacy classes, workshops, and celebrations for community women of Dhapasi and after-school academic enrichment classes and life skills workshops for Papa’s House and other local children. 

Sushmita has initiated the HEARD project aimed to consolidate all existing programs of Papa's House while introducing new initiatives to facilitate the holistic development of children and women within the community. Community-based psychosocial care and intervention, has begun through the new International Child Development Program (ICDP) caregivers’ weekly meetings.

See www.nepalorphanshome.org for more information.