About us
Founded on a simple refusal: not to walk past.
Save A Child’s Future is a volunteer-led nonprofit initiative in Nepal. We provide daily non-formal education and life-skills training to children who have been left outside the school system — and we do it in the places they already live.
Our story
It started with one settlement.
A short walk from schools and offices in Nepal’s cities are settlements where children spend the day collecting scrap, minding younger siblings, or simply waiting. Their families arrived looking for work. The paperwork, fees and distances that stand between them and a classroom are small obstacles individually, and insurmountable together.
We started teaching a handful of those children on a woven mat, with a borrowed chalkboard and donated notebooks. Word travelled. Parents asked whether their children could come too. The class became a daily fixture, then a programme, then a group of volunteers large enough to reach a second kind of community entirely — the Chepang villages on the hills of central Nepal, where distance rather than density keeps children out of school.
More than 500 children have now learned with us. Forty attend daily classes in a single settlement, the programme that Nepal Press came to see. None of it is complicated. It is a mat, a teacher, materials, and turning up every day.
We are not trying to replace school. We are making sure that when a child finally gets the chance to go, they are ready — and that until then, they are still learning.
— Founder, Save A Child’s Future
How we work
Four principles we do not bend on.
Go where the children are
Classes are held inside the settlements and villages. If a child cannot reach a classroom, the classroom comes to them.
Every day, not now and then
Learning sticks through routine. Our classes run daily, so children keep the thread and volunteers spot problems early.
Led by young Nepalis
The initiative is run by volunteers from and near these communities — people who share the language, the streets and the stakes.
Dignity first
Families are partners, not beneficiaries. We do not photograph or name children to raise funds.
The next class needs a teacher, or a box of notebooks.
Whether you are in Kathmandu or on the other side of the world, there is a version of helping that fits.