Stigma & Awareness

People with mental health problems can get better, and with help most have complete recovery.  In Nepal, mental health problems are common and help is also generally available. However, our society has stigma and shame around mental health, so many shy away from seeking help or sharing their experiences.  KG aims to raise awareness and facilitate dialogues among school-communities and service provides.
 “If there is a possibility of changing the thought, feeling, the attitude of the teacher, then perhaps there can be a new culture, a new civilization.” ​- J Krishnamurti
These help settle your mind and enhance your capacity for clear perception.
Join others in a safe-space to therapeutic meditate and communication.
Learn about, measure and improve caring for one's SELF (sleep, exercise, lighness, food)
Learn about trainings we can bring to your organization and schools
Resources for high school students to explore their interests and career choices.
Participate and support charity initiatives by teachers of government schools. 

wellbeing

Personal wellbeing is the starting point.  We suggest the foundation of personal wellbeing and health to be "SELF": 
  • Sleep
  • Exercise
  • Lightness
  • Food
We are developing tools for you to measure and improve your wellbeing. 

Mental Health

It affect our our emotional and social well-being.   It affects how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.
Students in particularly may be affected by factors such as:
1. Biological developmental factors around teenage years.
2. Difficult experiences around relationship and performance.
In this website, you can find toolkits that can help your journey of personal-change.
Learn about, measure and improve caring for one's SELF (sleep, exercise, lighness, food)
Resources for high school students to explore their interests and career choices.
Participate and support charity initiatives by teachers of government schools. 
Join others in a safe-space to therapeutic meditate and communication.
New collaborative ideas being explored into projects - July 2023
​1. Primary School 
2. Heritage City Walks for School Students
3. Mindfulness Sessions at Schools
4. Investment Club for Young Professionals
5. Inner Work Fellowship for folks in transition
6. Further Study Guidance & Preparations
7. Clothes Drive
​8. Soup Kitchen

Expected Outcomes DEPENDS ON THE LENGTH OF THE SESSIONS

Half Day Orientation:
Understanding of social emotional languages and an experiential sense of the scope of empathy.
2- 4 Days Communication:
Individuals learn to listen better after they develop awareness of, curiosity aout and patience for each other.
Longer Culture of Collaboration:
Individuals feel safe to express grievance, be self-directed and to collaborate, by solving problems near information sources.
  1. Pledge1 for Humand Dignity  (Link) (Link)
  2. Pledge2 for Madhesh Movement (Link) (Link).  
  3. Article Take back the Constitution, Oct 11, 2015, Setopati (link)
  4. Free the Market, Oct 20, 2015, TKP (link)
  5. Stand Together, Nov 17. 2015, TKP (link)​
  6. Friedrich Hayek's critique of a planned economy
 We connect students to on-line discussion forum by 'Strength Together' of Lokopakar, to discuss emotional issues.  
We bring monthly interaction and training sessions on mental health to school teachers in Kathmandu; these are open for public.​

Tools for Well-being

Would you like to practice meditation to calm your nerves?  These tracks may help you relax and get clarity.

Nepali guided-meditation
नेपाली ध्यानका ट्रयाकहरु 
You may explore counseling that are legitimate and affordable.
These materials would provides tools to students to planning their own future
 We connect teachers to professional resources that are appropriate and affordable for teachers and students.
We bring monthly interaction and training sessions on mental health to school teachers in Kathmandu; these are open for public.​
Teachers already have the knowledge and resources to improve learning outcomes.  When they are equipped with resources to care for mental health, schools become a place for holistic growth of learning and well-being.
"Right education is not to help you to find careers. It is to help you find out
for yourself what you really, with all your heart, love to do" 
- J Krishnamurti
Individuals are nimble and capable to play an enhanced role in social change alongside the institutional and state agencies. 
  1. Social change that is driven by the state or the institution gives rise to a culture of dependence.   
  2. New technology has empowered individuals like never before (bloggers, hackers, entrepreneurs etc.), hence, they are capable of playing a larger role.
  3. The world is changing very quickly and has become a more uncertain domain.  Nimble and small units of individuals can respond faster.
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Help identify children with need.
You may, as a teacher or a good Samaritan, observe that a child you know is in need of basic things.
Fill up a small form so we can identify who needs help. 
Steps:
  1. Anyone can submit this form, or tell us over the phone.
  2. Teachers Circle will verify the application. If accepted,
  3. Actions Circle will raise fund.
  4. You may be asked to help in the fund raising.
  5. You will asked to help in delivering the help needed and communicating to the donor.
We aim to complete the above cycle within two weeks.


We moderate dialogues on public issues to enhance collaborations and introspection. 


Promoting Individual DIGNITY & RESPONSIBILITY 

Individuals are nimble and capable to play an enhanced role in social change alongside the institutional and state agencies.  Dialogues can help them identify how to collaborate with one another to be an effective change agency. Dignity Dialogue promotes these two values:
  • Dignity means an individual's fundamental rights are respected, and is not taken away by the mighty or the majority.
  • Responsibility means citizens, through initiatives and learning, are 'able to respond' to challenges in their community and their plant.

DIGNITY DIALOGUES

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 SAMBAAD DIALOGUES
We create spaces for conversations and connections, for self-reflection and enhancing perspectives. We facilitate dialogues in schools, colleges and organizations to explore the power of democratic discourse.  We moderate "Sambaad - a dialogue forum" for individuals' dignity and responsibility, in collaboration with Janata Media - to explore complex current issues. Learn more here.
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BOARD CIRCLES - Board meetings have high impact on how organizations get steered. We are developing an Action-Board that can serve as a voluntary advisory board to organizations that share our values of personal change.

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BE-THE-CHANGE RETREATS- Personal change starts with a capacity to take care of one's well-being, through self-awareness and self-management.  Inspired by MovedByLove.org, we hold retreats to explore the potential of change in each of us.  Participants are expected to get some clarity for oneself and kindle heart-connections with others.  Example -  Retreat on Inside-Out Change - January 2017

Financial Transparency

Process & Audit

  • Accounts reviewed by Lekha Services P Ltd.  
  • Financial statements are audited by Sydrec P Ltd.
  • Monthly institutional budget of Rs 100K for 2016. 
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our work with tools that enhance awareness of the self and the other.


  1. KG-Nepal collaborates with organizations to explore empathy sessions towards effective communication and collaboration.
  2. Kehi Garoun collaborates with teachers of government schools to channel 100% of charity donation to children in need.
  3. As an open community, we collaborate with Awakin Circle to host weekly sessions in mindfulness and reflective sharing.

Affiliations
Giving is facilitated by Kehi Garoun, a social organization that envisions self-change as a pathway to social change.
Registered in 2006 as a social organization based in Nepal.​
Retreats are for more serious explorers.  Retreats include themes such as Body Scan, Mindfulness, Relationship, Communications etc.  Typically lasting for 2-days, sessions are loosely structured.  Participants have to bear their own logistics cost.
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Teachers volunteer to channel all 100 percent of your donation
to Nepali children most in need of support to continue their education.
May 27 2012: from Umanga's Blog
Today the Prime Minister said to the media that what politicians say to the public, for public consumption, is not relevant. 
And he is right.  
The politicians can say one thing to us and do just the opposite.  There is no consequence.  We the people do not know how to care enough that we gain politicians' respect, their accountability.
Next election, I will care to remember this.  I will care enough to vote for those politicians who think the public matters, that what they say to the public matters. In fact, I will vote to emphasize that 'what politicians say to the public is the ONLY thing that matters'.
  1. As a country partner for Design for Change, we empower children to drive change through DFC projects.
  2. KG-Nepal collaborates with organizations to explore empathy sessions towards effective communication and collaboration.
  3. Kehi Garoun collaborates with teachers of government schools to channel 100% of charity donation to children in need.
  4. As an open community, we collaborate with Awakin Circle to host weekly sessions in mindfulness and reflective sharing.
"केही गरौँ” संस्थाको मान्यता आत्म परिवर्तनद्वारा समाज परिवर्तन हुनूपर्छ र आफ्नो समस्या आफ्नै समुदायले नै समाधान गर्नुपर्छ भन्ने नै हो।  आफ्नै साथीभाई जो हाम्रो अवधारणा लाई बुझी हामीलाई सहयोग गर्न तत्पर छन, उनीहरूको स-साना अनुदान लिएर, थोपा थोपा मिली नदी भनेझै, एक नयाँ समुदाय निर्माण गर्न लागी परेको छ ।  आशा छ यहाँ पनि हाम्रो मान्यताको समर्थन गर्नुहुनेछ ।  मिली जुली "केही गरौँ " -  आफैलाई सक्रीय बनाँउदै, समाजमा परीवर्तन ल्याऔं ! धन्यवाद ! 
We encourage small personal changes to pave way to larger social change.  In the last 12 years, KG has facilitated numerous projects initiated by individuals looking to “convert passion into action”. Our programs are results of working with individuals looking to "convert your passion into action".
Work of the last 12 years
We undertake small yet honest engagements with local schools and teachers.  This has grown to become the platform for our work.
  • 2006:  Six housewives pioneered a cause against classroom hunger (provided 21,000+ meals).  This anchored our work in the local government schools.
  • 2010: Three teachers wanted students to have notebooks to write on  (reached 2,500+ students).  This made us realize that we should look for change-agents among the beneficiaries.​
  • 2010: Eight recent college grads coordinated youth activism (over 100+ events) in 2010, giving rise to a culture of silent and non-violent political engagements.
  • 2013:  Six college volunteers started happy tummy campaign (reached 3,500+ students).  This has created pipeline for our recruitment.
  • 2015:  One of the ex-volunteered returned from abroad and provided counseling to the youth in the form of reflection exercises, giving rise to the student toolkit in 2015.
 Process:
  1. Unstructured exploration: Start are not determined or structured, where unease gets expressed & channeled
  2. Group seeks relevance, slowly adding authenticity, and articulating a direction
  3. Opportunity to ripple beyond group sessions, not just in professional setting but also in personal lives
  1. ​Focus on Personal Change:  Improving others or the world is not in one's control, but changing oneself is.  We need not wait for the state or larger institutions in order to initiate self-change, putting us on the driver's seat!
  2. Undertake Reflective Action:  When action and reflection inform each other, a person moves harmoniously towards greater energy for self-care, empathy for others and excellence in work.  
  3. Impact in the Society: In an interconnected world, what we do - with whatever we have - matters!  Hence, the quality of our being, relationships and work would naturally radiate to affect our relationships with others, and to color the contribution we make to this interconnected world.

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Kehi Garoun was inspired by J.Krishnamurti's philosophy that social change should result from personal initiatives, not political revolutions.   We have deepened our interactions with Krishnamurti's reader-groups in Kathmandu, and work with KFI (Krishnamurti Foundation India) to promote his philosophy.    In the International Book Fair 2016 being held in Kathmandu for 10 days from 27th of May, we are hosting a stall  with Krishnamurti's books.  Visit us (at the stall B-72) to browse through his books, buy your favorites, pick up a complementary copy for students and teachers, or simply chat with other readers of Krishnamurti.

Please note that you can contact us for books or events on Krishnamurti's at any time of the year.

Charity Model

Education Model
Giving100percent is the charity programs that removes economic hurdles faced by students unable to afford educational materials such as notebooks, meals and uniforms.  The Giving Team also undertakes regular campaigns:
  • ​Stationery Campaign:  For 1000+ children whose parents cannot afford to buy simple notebooks
  • ​Sweater Campaign:   For 1000+ children who come to school in winter without warm cloths​
Insight Education promotes learner centric education that would enable students to solve their own problems and gradually become change agents.  The IEducation program has two components:
  • Counseling :  To students, to provide guidance on being self-directed
  • Consulting: To education institutions, we design a suitable learning environment

To meet needs of those students who cannot afford the basics, we give gifts of educational materials such as notebooks...

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