This NCDC project aims to reduce the school drop-out of girls in the Ilam District in Nepal. Due to social, economic and cultural factors girls have very little chances to complete higher education, even if they did complete basic education. Moreover, the NCDC Girls Scholarship program stimulates cultural changes so that girls and children from ‘untouchable castes’ will be encouraged to go to school.

The Karuna Foundation was established in 2007 to improve the lives of children with a disability in developing countries. Nepal was identified as a country with a high need in this respect, a lack of good care, and potential for development. The social entrepreneurs and development specialists Deepak Raj Sapkota and Yogendra Giri started the Karuna Foundation to develop disability-inclusive societies in Nepal under the adagio of ‘saving children from disability, one by one’.