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Giving Circle is a group of teachers from government school, contributing their time and effort to bring about change in their community. In government schools many students are unable to afford the notebooks needed for their school work which often leads to dropouts of students. Therefore in this beginning of academic year the circle has identified the need of stationery for students.
It costs Rs 3,000 to provide notebooks needed for an academic year to 10 students. You can be a helping hand.
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The campaign started with a motive of reaching and helping students in need of warm sweaters so that they could be motivated to attend school in this year's freezing winter. With the help of mentors KG identified 396 students in 12 different schools who needed to be helped. Along the way we were also able to provide 169 warm hats to children. We thank all mentors, volunteers, donors and enablers who have shown their constant support towards the movement.
 Many students from government schools are unable to buy a pair of shoe, which is not only injurious to them but they also feel embarrassed to go to school without shoes. Therefore KG in coordination with Mentor circle (a group of active teachers) identified 107 students in need from 8 different schools and successfully served them with school shoes.
For kids by kids program was designed by a group of mentors from 12 different schools. The program was successful held on 8th June at Kanya Mandir Secondary School, Chhetrapati. Around 400 students were present at the event. Students put all together 15 cultural acts and 12 Food stalls. The total revenue of the event was RS.26,000 which will be used in DFC projects led by students themselves. Testimonial by Sarala Panta (Teacher, Kanya Mandir School): I have never experienced an event like this before where teachers and students from different school come together at a common place and work together in a non competitive way.  Many children in public schools and orphanages continue to be deprived of basic materials that support their educational needs. One such common need is the school uniform, that many poor families struggle to provide to their children. This becomes a glaring need in the extreme cold of the Kathmandu winter, when many children lack a sweater to wear to school. This not only affects the health of the children, but also affects their motivation to attend school. In this shivering season, you can give warmth to the children by donating Rs 450 per sweater. All 100% of your donation will be used for the purchase of the sweaters. HISTORY:
 Our response: Relief > Resume > Rebuild
Relief: In response to the recent earthquakes to hit Nepal, volunteers have provided health-relief packages to those in need. As of May 18th, KG Nepal distributed health packages, tailored to women and children, to over 10,000 families in over 40 locations.
Resume: After earthquakes, it is natural to help out in "Relief". Yet, we all hope, "Rebuild" will start at some point. KG Nepal intends to focus on 'Resume' so that we do not get stuck on Relief-aid economy.
Rebuild: A team of engineers and architects were arranged to inspect the schools to see which ones need to be rebuilt.
The “Resuming Schools, Resuming Lives” program focused on the 25 schools in its network with the objective to start the classes as soon as possible.
Do you recall when as a child you were excited by new notebooks, a sleek pencil or a fancy eraser? It was an excitement for the ones whose parents could afford them all but there are still children using loose papers, blunt pencils and erasers rubbed to grains.
This is the glaring reason behind most of the students in government schools lagging in studies. To avoid the embarrassment in class when teachers would ask for notebooks, to ignite the interest in students and motivate them to learn and to avoid putting pressure on their cash-strapped parents; since 2011, Kehi Garoun has been distributing stationery to government schools in Kathmandu.
After earthquakes, it is natural to help out in "Relief". In response to the recent earthquakes to hit Nepal, volunteers have provided health-relief packages to those in need. As of May 18th, KGNepal distributed health packages, tailored to women and children, to over 10,000 families in over 40 locations. Yet, we all hope, "Rebuild" will start at some point. KGNepal intends to focus on 'Resume' that will connect the Relief phase to the Rebuild phase. KGNepal's plan is to go from move past quick Relief to focus on Resume so that the long term Rebuild may commence. Or else, we may be stuck in an aid-dependent economy that displaces market economy (as was the case in Haiti after earthquake). KgNepal's founder Umanga Pandey shares his opinion on how people from different walks of life can help:
What we do is so mundane sometimes, packing, stapling, making paper bags, counting inventory, writing down a numbers and whether it's female or family, flattening out boxes and sometimes just packing the kits in a sack, we get a lot of time to think...well when it's quiet anyways.
So many people have taken our kits and our main concern it that it's reaching places it needs to go to and we really have to try and make sure that there is no duplication in efforts or people aren't being lazy and dumping their relief items. So I started thinking about some group who took our kits on the first week after the earthquake and wondered what motivated them to start and what were their reasons to stop. Maybe they were already going there with other reliefs, maybe they felt compelled as human beings to go out there and help, maybe they just wanted to contribute what they could because it was obligatory or maybe they wanted to play hero. But whatever their reason was, they were helping. Being unemployed when this happened gave me this opportunity to do what I can in a way I can. If this was a workforce, our office is very much a back office where we never get to meet our clients, so we rely very much on volunteers and teams who are going out there distributing to give us the correct information. We don't have stories to share; of bravery, of sorrow, and everything else the victims and volunteers are experiencing right now. We are just a group of friends who realized we don't have any disaster relief knowledge, so with the help of few meetings and a quick email to my friend who studied public health in disasters decided to procure and pack, hoping maybe we will prevent the spread of some disease. So yeah, part of our reason was probably also to be a hero, maybe not the ones who are directly involved with the displaced survivors but maybe a subtle hero. It will be three weeks tomorrow since that day, the day we will never ever forget in our lives but my true heroes are those that's helping me subtly, the guys who take me to and fro every morning and evening, guys who make us tea when we really want it (and milky coffee of course), Be Raj, because it was bit too hard without him for few days, Ayasha who does everything there, always helpful and never complains, all the volunteers who don't complain about our tasks and dedicate fully, the guy and the girl who makes the volunteers do their tasks sometimes by shouting at them ;), those who procure everything so all we need to do is demand, and those who make us chuckle and laugh throughout the day so we forget for a while what a terrible time we are all going through.. thank you all for creating such a positive energy in the volunteer-space and subtly providing all of us with such a good support system. And lastly, everyone who has supported us financially, we would have had no money to continue after last week without your support. So even though none of us will be featured in any magazines or papers, you are all my post-disaster heroes.. Resume Schools - Resume Lives: Our focus is to resume the network of 25 government schools that KG has been working with for the last 4-9 years. The families of the students are from the poorest strata in society, and therefore most vulnerable to earthquakes as they live in cheap, structurally weak homes. They are also stand the most to lose by loss of daily wages when they have to stay back to take care of children. As a child starts to resume their school, her parents can resume work, and the life in the community starts to pick up. Our message is that we should not wait in fear of another earthquake, or in the hope of another relief-truck, but start picking up the pieces of our lives, now. 
Most of the students from government schools belong to marginalized section of our society who lack the socioeconomic resources to access health care. Hence, Jasmine Basnet Tuladhar volunteered to organize a dental camp to provide knowledge and services of dental health. Shradha Shakya from KG coordinated this event. Oral Hygiene Report: Activities:
We understand each person has his or her own ideas and skills. That is why we look forward to communicating with you one-on-one after you submit your interest. Are you interested in Volunteering for the Giving Program? We need volunteers to edit profiles and rate the students needs. You can do this on your own schedule, and even remotely. In additional, you may be asked, based on your location, to deliver Gifts.
 Volunteers like to visit old age home and orphanages; and this time we have a great excuse. We are giving away t-shirts provided by Utsav Events. So far, 70 t-shirts have been given out to:
 Many children cannot engage fully in their school work because they do not have notebooks to write on. Stationery Campaign channels 100% of your donation to provide stationery to such students.
 A student without a sweater faces not only Kathmandu's bitter winter, but also embarrassment in front of classmates. Sweaters Campaign channeled 100% of donation to those students.
Volunteers from KUSOM executed this campaign, coordinated by Aparmita Tuladhar. Ayush Manandhar, Chandan Nemkul, Nishan Neupane, Sara Sharma, Romisha Maharjan, Avritti Bhattari, Sarina Shrestha, Puja Shrestha, Sneha Shakya, Nischala Neupane, Aishwarya Dhakhwa, Nilima Mali, Millee Maskey, Prayush Shakya, Nikki Hamal, Rachita Tuladhar. Simron Shrestha Activities Logged
 How It Started
Sweater campaign started when KG Team was visiting Tarani School in 2012 and found that students there were shivering in bitter cold morning. The team collected some funds at the spot to buy sweater and donate to the students.
Volunteers from KUSOM executed this campaign, coordinated by Aparmita Tuladhar. Ayush Manandhar, Chandan Nemkul, Nishan Neupane, Sara Sharma, Romisha Maharjan, Avritti Bhattari, Sarina Shrestha, Puja Shrestha, Sneha Shakya, Nischala Neupane, Aishwarya Dhakhwa, Nilima Mali, Millee Maskey, Prayush Shakya, Nikki Hamal, Rachita Tuladhar. Simron Shrestha 
Students of BBA 3rd Semester are using the Eco Carnival 2013 (August 24) into a campaign to support happy tummy.
Aishwarya Dhakhwa, Rachita Tuladhar, Prayush Shakya, Bimash Raj Giri, Sneha Shakya, Puja Shrestha, Ranju Bista, Nitika Dahal, Nikki Hamal, Dipti Regmi, Dikshya Regmi and Romisha Maharjan are joining the KG Volunteers (Apari and Ayush) to hold fund-raising stalls to donate the pro
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