Since 2012
Community, Youth & Environment
Health camps, river clean-ups, tree planting, blood donation and youth training — the work that has run continuously for over a decade.
- activities in the register
- 18
- districts
- 7
- dated
- 2011–2025
Why this work
Most of what an organisation does is not a programme with a budget line.
It is turning up, repeatedly, in the same places, for years, because somebody has to.
What we do
- Free health campsFor the Chepang community at Shaktikhor, in Dhading, and on Mahashivaratri at Pashupatinath.Free health camps, 2012Free health camps, 2013Free health camps, 2014
- River clean-upThe Bagmati at Pashupati Aryaghat.River clean-up, 2012
- Tree plantingMulpani, Gorkha and Bhaktapur.Tree planting, 2012Tree planting, 2016
- Blood donationGongabu Bus Park, Kathmandu.Blood donation, 2017
- Youth trainingPersonality development training in Kathmandu.Youth training, 2011
- Farmers’ programmeGandaki Rural Municipality, Gorkha.Farmers’ programme, 2018
- Tobacco awarenessWith the Ministry of Health and Population, in Nagarjun.Tobacco awareness, 2020
- Sustainable tourismA workshop with Melamchi Municipality.Sustainable tourism, 2022
Year by year, 2025 back to 2011
Every community activity in the Project Register, the most recent first. Where a fuller account exists, open it to read the story and see the photographs.
2025
2024
Gosaikunda spiritual-tourism yoga camp
2023
No community activity in the register for this year. The year’s work is recorded under Education & Learning Materials.
2022
Sustainable Tourism Workshop — Path Toward Sustainable Certification for the Destination
With Melamchi Municipality
On 23 May 2022, New Vision Nepal took part in the Sustainable Tourism Workshop — “Path Toward Sustainable Certification for the Destination” — in Melamchi Municipality, Sindhupalchok, bringing participants together to plan for responsible tourism in the area.
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2021
No activity in the register for this year.
2020
Tobacco awareness programme
With Ministry of Health & Population, Tobacco Control Secretariat
In mid-2020, with the Ministry of Health and Population’s Tobacco Control Secretariat, New Vision Nepal ran an awareness programme against smoking and chewing tobacco in Nagarjun Municipality — putting up materials and taking the message onto the streets.
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2019
No activity in the register for this year.
2018
Empowering poor and disadvantaged farmers to increase their access to the resources and services of local government, six days
From 2 to 7 June 2018, New Vision Nepal ran a six-day programme in Gandaki Rural Municipality, Gorkha, to help poor and disadvantaged farmers reach the resources and services of their local government. It paired orientation sessions with practical support on the land.
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2017
Blood donation programme
On 1 April 2017, New Vision Nepal held a blood donation programme at Gongabu Bus Park in Kathmandu — volunteers and passers-by giving blood at one of the city’s busiest transport hubs.
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2016
Tree planting
On 18 June 2016, New Vision Nepal planted trees in Bhaktapur — in the organisation’s own words, “a small effort” for environmental conservation alongside its social work.
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Tree planting
On 4 June 2016, New Vision Nepal planted trees at Phujel-1 in Gorkha — the day after it had helped rebuild the earthquake-damaged Kalika school in the same village. Rebuilding and greening the hillside went hand in hand.
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2015
No community activity in the register for this year. The year’s work is recorded under Disaster Risk Reduction & Response.
2014
Teej volunteer service
On Haritalika Teej in 2014, New Vision Nepal volunteers served at Pashupatinath as women gathered in their thousands for the festival — helping pilgrims through the crowded temple grounds, as the organisation had begun doing on Mahashivaratri.
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Mahashivaratri health camp and volunteer service
On Mahashivaratri in 2014, the free health camp and volunteer service at Pashupatinath continued — the third year running — welcoming and caring for pilgrims on one of the busiest days of the Hindu calendar.
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2013
Mahashivaratri health camp and volunteer service
On Mahashivaratri in 2013, New Vision Nepal returned to Pashupatinath to run a free health camp and mobilise its volunteers among the pilgrims — the second year of what became an annual tradition of service on the festival.
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2012
Tree planting on public land
On 2 June 2012, New Vision Nepal volunteers planted trees on open public land at Mulpani, Kathmandu — a small act of care for the environment on ground shared by the whole community.
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Government and KMC cleanliness programme
With Government of Nepal, Kathmandu Metropolitan City
In April 2012, New Vision Nepal joined a cleanliness programme run by the Government of Nepal and Kathmandu Metropolitan City. Volunteers turned out to clear and sweep the city’s streets — an early example of the organisation working alongside local government on public work.
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Bagmati river clean-up
New Vision Nepal brought fifty volunteers to the banks of the Bagmati at Pashupati Aryaghat for a day of cleaning — one of the most sacred and most burdened stretches of the river, where it runs past the cremation grounds of Pashupatinath.
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The work was plain and physical: clearing plastic waste and bottles from the water and the banks, and freeing the channels so the river could flow where it had been choked. For a river that Hindus hold sacred, letting the water move freely again is as much an act of respect as of cleaning.
Something happened over the day that the organisers had not planned. Pilgrims and visitors to the temple, seeing the volunteers at work in the water, put down what they were carrying and joined in. A team of fifty grew as strangers lent their hands — a reminder that most people will help when someone else goes first.
It was New Vision Nepal’s own clean-up, start to finish, and one of the organisation’s earliest pieces of environmental work — care for a sacred place, and for the river that runs through it.
Mahashivaratri health camp and volunteer service
On Mahashivaratri, when hundreds of thousands of pilgrims gather at Pashupatinath, New Vision Nepal’s young volunteers were among them — not as visitors, but in service. More than two hundred people were helped over the day.
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The volunteers welcomed arriving pilgrims, guided them through the crowded temple grounds, and gave directions to those who had travelled from far away and did not know their way. On one of the busiest days of the Hindu calendar, in a place where it is easy to feel lost among the crowds, a familiar face pointing the way is no small thing.
The team also cleaned parts of the Pashupatinath grounds, helping keep the sacred site orderly and dignified through a day of enormous footfall — care for the place as well as the people in it.
It was the first of several years New Vision Nepal would serve at Pashupatinath on Mahashivaratri and at Teej, returning to the same sacred ground, on the same festivals, to help the pilgrims who came. A quiet tradition of service had begun.
Free health camp
A month after the Chepang camp, New Vision Nepal carried the same idea into the hills of Dhading, holding a free health camp at Pipaltar in Maidi. Around one hundred people were seen over the course of a single day.
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This camp answered a need the community itself had identified. Local people helped organise it from the start — making announcements and spreading word ahead of the day so that anyone who needed care would know to come. By the time the team arrived, people had gathered and were ready.
A team of between ten and twelve made it work: three doctors and seven volunteers. They provided general health check-ups, blood pressure and blood sugar testing, basic eye care and medicines — the everyday examinations that are hard to reach when the nearest facility is hours away on foot.
Two camps in two months, in two different districts, settled something early for New Vision Nepal: that the work would go to where people were, and would be done with the community, not simply for it.
Free health camp for the Chepang community
Six weeks after its inauguration, New Vision Nepal ran its first field programme: a free health camp for the Chepang community at Chaturmukhi Higher Secondary School in Shaktikhor, Chitwan. Around one hundred people were seen over the day.
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The Chepang are one of Nepal’s most marginalised indigenous communities. Many live in the hills of Chitwan and Makwanpur, often far from the nearest health post, and routine check-ups that others take for granted can be out of reach. That is why the organisation chose to begin here — where the need was real and the services were few.
A team of around ten made the camp possible: two doctors and a group of volunteers. They offered general health check-ups, eye care, blood pressure and blood sugar testing, and handed out medicines to those who needed them. For many who came, it was a rare chance to be examined by a doctor close to home.
The camp was organised with the help of the local community and the school, who gathered people and brought them in on time — turning a one-day visit into a day that reached a hundred of their neighbours. It was a sign of how New Vision Nepal would go on to work: never alone, always alongside the people it came to serve.
2011
Inauguration and personality development training
Seven weeks after New Vision Nepal was registered, the organisation held its first event: its inauguration, together with a personality development training, at a government school in Kathmandu. Around twenty college students took part, guided by five senior trainers.
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It was a deliberate way to begin. Before a single health camp or clean-up, the founders chose to invest in people — to give young participants the confidence, communication and self-belief that community work depends on. The five senior trainers led the group through the foundations of personal growth: speaking with confidence, working as a team, setting goals, and carrying oneself with purpose.
The thinking was simple. An organisation that wants to strengthen communities should first strengthen the young people within them. For many of the twenty who took part, it was a first step towards the kind of civic and volunteer work that New Vision Nepal would go on to do across Nepal.
It set the tone for everything that followed. The organisation’s first act was not to build something, but to believe in people.
Attendance records were not kept for this activity. We began recording participant numbers in 2026.
Partners in this area
- Kathmandu Metropolitan City
- Nagarjun Municipality
- Melamchi Municipality
- Ministry of Health & Population, Tobacco Control Secretariat
Other areas of our work
All five programme areas-
Since 2015
Disaster Risk Reduction & Response
Relief after the 2015 earthquake, and preparedness built into the 2026 Nuwakot programme so the next flood is met better than the last.
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Since 2012
Education & Learning Materials
School kits for children returning to flood-damaged classrooms, and the training programmes that have run since 2012.
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Since 2024
Wellbeing & Psychosocial Care
Free yoga, meditation and Himalayan sound sessions, given at the institution’s invitation and at no cost.
Support the everyday work
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