Fact Sheet
Foundation Nepal at a glance
Established: Late 2006 (formerly known as The Nepalese Children’s Foundation)
Legal status: Irish registered charity with charitable tax status, tax registration number CHY17737
CEO: Nicky Deasy, former Director of Corporate Finance at Ernst & Young (takes no remuneration for her full-time work with the charity)
Headquarters: Galway, Ireland
Staff in Ireland: 1 full time, 3 part time
Staff in Nepal: Approx. 15 local staff
Tag line: ‘Giving a hand up, not a hand out’
Geographic focus area: The remote and chronically impoverished district of Humla in the northwest of Nepal
Quick facts about Humla:
- Operational road length – 0km
- Annual per capita income – €100-€134
- Life expectancy at birth – 53 years
- Child mortality – up to 30% in some areas
- Female literacy rate (6+) – 8.8%
- Percentage of children under 5 suffering malnutrition – 65%
Work focus areas: Food production, micro-finance, micro-business, healthcare and education
Main beneficiaries: Severely disadvantaged groups, namely women and low-caste families
Key 2009 results:
- Operated four health posts and various outreach clinics that treated 29,440 patients
- Delivered health education training to 5,581 people
- Purchased educational materials for 1,500 students
- Built an extension to a primary school for 300 students
- Ran micro-business schemes with 245 households, which increased average household income by 10%-27%
- Provided micro-business start-up training to 670 mothers
- Ran pilot programmes to improve seeds for core staple crops such as maize, which showed a 60% increase in yield
Key differentiators: (1) Commitment to developing truly sustainable solutions and (2) Taking a target-driven business approach to the charity world with a keen focus on efficiency and return on investment
Current funding: 100% from donations, no state funding due to budget cut backs
Proposed future projects: Building a safe birthing centre, expanding our women’s literacy programmes, developing an irrigation centre for one village and constructing a volunteer/education/community centre
