Year 2013 in brief In 2013, with a modest budget of nearly $4,000 USD, Punya Foundation programs accomplished wondrous life-affirming changes for vulnerable, often traumatised young children, high school students, women, and families. This annual report describes program activities in the Bhutanese Diaspora and in refugee camps in Nepal and Kenya. Also covered are new...

Giving continuity to its education program, in 2013, the Punya Foundation established a partnership with the Jana Kalyan Yuwa Samuha (JKYS)[1] as its implementing partner in Nepal. JKYS is implementing the Foundation’s scholarship program and one of its empowerment programs as well. Six students, ranging from kinder garden to class six, from Jhapa district have...

Our primary income source continues to be donations mostly from Bhutanese refugees resettled in third countries. Click here for donation list. Major Donors: Mr. Rajendra Timsina, a Bhutanese asylee in Winnipeg, Canada, generously provided scholarships to four students attending secondary school in Jhapa, Nepal. Mr. B. M. Khaling, a resettled Bhutanese refugee in Atlanta, Georgia,...

In April 2011, the foundation organised a stakeholder analysis to identify the needs at community level. Present in the discussion program are community leaders, representatives of youth organisations, social workers and volunteers  Mr. Vidhyapati Mishra of Bhutan Media Society, facilitated the discussion program. The participants welcomed foundation to organise empowerment program. During the interaction program, a...

By Thakur Amgai, Kathmandu Nepal (for detail report, click here) BACKGROUND: On June 27, 2011 a Tuin connecting Charaudi of Dhading District and Dhabadighat in Ghyalchok VDC of Gorkha district fell into Trishuli from which six persons among ten aboard fell into the river. A 13-year-old boy swam to safety, but five others were swept away...

By Thakur Amgai, Kathmandu Nepal (for detail report, click here) BACKGROUND: On June 27, 2011 a Tuin connecting Charaudi of Dhading District and Dhabadighat in Ghyalchok VDC of Gorkha district fell into Trishuli from which six persons among ten aboard fell into the river. A 13-year-old boy swam to safety, but five others were swept away by the...