EMPOWER ASIA NEPAL has three discipleship homes in Nepal that mentor and develop our young people into future leadership.

Number of Kids Commenced Average Age Monthly Operation Cost

Asha Kendra Juniors 14 boys 2000 15 years $1100

Pokhara 16 girls 2001 16 years $1260

Nepal: Population of 30 million. Religious makeup: 81% Hindu, 11% Buddhist, 4% Muslim, 1% Christian

Sam (14) studies at our Asha Kendra Junior Home and is placed second in his Year 9 class. He is from a very remote part of Nepal in fact it took him several days to walk from his village to the bus stop where he waited to go to Kathmandu. Sam sat our entrance exam, which he said was hard, and was accepted in 2005. He is considering becoming an engineer because he would like to bring roading and communications into his district. Sam says that engineers do not like to live in his district because of its reputation as a violent Maoist stronghold and because of the very harsh way of life. In the past, Maoists have visited Sam’s house to extort money from his father threatening to kill him.

Our ministry in Nepal is focused on mentoring teenage boys and girls who will one day become teachers, nurses, engineers, accountants and lawyers. We are endeavoring to raise up young people so that they will have a heart for the poor and who in time will one day be willing to live and Our house Dad and some of the junior boys in Kathmandu lead back within rural village areas, provincial towns/cities.

Our heart to work with girls was particularly touched when we discovered the number of Nepali girls, who through no fault of their own, are trafficked over the border into India to work as sex slaves at brothels in Mumbai and Calcutta. Within six months many girls contract the HIV virus. And there, ends a future. Our Pokhara girls’ home (pictured right) has been operating since 2001. We proactively aim to prevent our daughters from ending up in slave or bonded labor situations or as victims of human trafficking.

In June 2009 seven of our girls plan to start their first year of university study. This is an unbelievable dream for them because so often in Nepali society girls are married off between the ages of 14-16 years and must then stay home to look after the house, cook, wash the clothes and have babies. God has more for our girls than that!

Our Nepali boys and girls homes have a very strong emphasis on both academic achievement and development of character. Prior to exams our boys and girls will all study 18 hours per day.

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We have insufficient funds to run all of these works as they presently stand and certainly we do not have enough support to take on more new at-risk youth nor to sponsor our older kids on into college level education. Would you like to give? It would be fantastic if you could.

Donations from the USA and Canada can be sent to Global Tribe but must be specifically designated for Empower Asia.