BBuildsupnepal: Report on Companies and NGOs Supporting Development

This report provides an overview of companies and organizations involved in supporting the BBuildsupnepal initiative. It identifies key funders like NOHETO, Deutsche Bank, the Berghof Foundation, the Association of German Foundations, Action for World Solidarity (ASW), and Siemens Stiftung, detailing their contributions through grants and donations to various projects, particularly those focused on child welfare, education, and poverty reduction in Nepal. The report highlights BBuildsupnepal's work, including transit homes, smoke-free stoves, and educational initiatives, and discusses the growing role of NGOs in Nepal's social and economic development, emphasizing the impact of both local and international organizations in addressing the country's challenges. The report also mentions the positive growth of NGOs in Nepal, government policies, and the increasing number of NGOs working in different fields.

Names of Companies involved in BBuildsupnepal Organization
The initial research for this project helped in recognizing the companies involved in the
BBuildsupnepal organization. The list of foundations was gathered that was involved in offering
grants and private fundings for various global issues such as peace, democracy, sustainability,
educational support and development, and many more. The foundations are situated in Germany.
The organizations mentioned below provide helping hand via grants and donations to various
charities such as BBuildsupnepal.
NOHETO
This implies advice in NOHETO, particularly help from the subject to application. NOHETO has
been supporting organizations to successfully maintain functionality for around 20 successful
years. It offers support mainly at the time of implementation of impending changes.
Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank backs various projects and supports various programs globally to empower
communities to develop social resources. Sustainability, Art, Education, Corporate Volunteering,
and Social Investment are five support pillars recognized and implemented by the Deutsche
Bank. The Bank provides its support through various recognized foundations and local units in
the bank’s area of operations. These local entities comprise the Deutsche Bank Middle East
Foundation, the Deutsche Bank Asia Foundation, and the Deutsche Bank South Africa
Foundation. At present, these subsidiary foundations provide finances to many projects and
programs such as Palestine Association for the Children Encouragement of Sports (PACES),
Bader Young Entrepreneurs Program (working in Lebanon), the Emeritas Environmental Group,
the Emeritas Wildlife Society, the Dubai Concert Committee, and BBuildsupnepal (support for
children in Nepal).
The Berghof Foundation
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The foundation was founded in 1971 and it mainly provides support to companies or
organizations to perform non-violent answers to conflict-prone conditions on a global scale. The
Berghof Foundation provides concentrates on peace education, support, and conflict research. It
awards three grant opportunities. The foundation’s main support goes to children’s education. It
provides fundings to various charities working in the field of children’s education especially in
under-developed or developmental countries like Africa and Nepal.
Association of German Foundations
This association delegates around 20,000 German foundations. It is one of the oldest and biggest
organization in the entire Europe. It is a non-profit organization and hence delegates on
representation of association members.
Action for World Solidarity (ASW)
ASW (Action for World Solidarity) provides support to projects and programs in various
countries like Africa (Zimbabwe, Western Sahar, Burkina Faso, Senegal, etc.) Asia (India,
Nepal, etc.), and Latin America (Brazil). Its aims are to provide support to regional projects that
work in the field of enhancement in the standards of living of population, environmental
protection, and all-round improvement of women’s living conditions. Recently, ASW is
operating with associations that are working in the field of poverty and hunger, provide attention
to the sick and exposed, education support to deprived children, and environmental care.
Siemens Stiftung
The Siemens Stiftung foundation was founded in 2008 and it works in association with six other
Siemens foundations. The six associate foundations are situated in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia,
Germany, France, and the US. The Siemens Stiftung follows the principles of Werner von
Siemens of encouragement and empowerment of people to vigorously approach current social
difficulties. The Siemens Stiftung foundation, in association with its partners, develops and
implements regional and global projects aiming to encourage personal engagement and self-
motivation. It works in expanding basic services, social entrepreneurship opportunities,
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promotion of education, and cultural strengthening. It perseveres a unifying strategy and persists
for efficient, impactful and innovative work for its projects. Africa, Latin America, Germany and
Europe, and Asia are the countries where the foundation’s project work is mainly focused in.
Some more examples of organizations associated with providing funds for organizations such as
BBuildsupnepal are Dornseifer Personal Management and Tomorrow is Now.
Scope of work
The organization works on various developmental and conservation programs ranging from
offering help with underprivileged children in Kathmandu, Nepal to keeping tracks of species
nearing extinction in the valley’s of Himalaya. They also help in the development of personal
potential for overall growth and chance to establish a relationship with the regional population.
Nepal is suffering from various social and economic issues such as civil war, poverty, cast
system, earthquake, etc. Nepal is still recovering from the aftereffects of the 2015 earthquake.
All these factors mostly makes children vulnerable socially and economically. Not only
underprivileged but ones having family to support experience negligence and find themselves
incapable to meet their daily basic needs. In Kathmandu, which is the Capital of Nepal, alone
there are around 5000 children found streets struggling for survival.
The organization works to provide better living conditions for the children in various parts of
Nepal through different projects that critically affect the lives of children. A notion like Transit
home provides temporary basic support to underprivileged children. The concept like this can
become a point of new beginning towards a bright future for these children. It can give their
childhood back to them. The foundation, in association with the local authorities, evaluates the
situation to determine the course of action to enable the families to have a better outlook for their
future.
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The organization is associated with a local NGO, Voice of Children Nepal
(http://www.voiceofchildren.org.np) which is situated in Kathmandu. The association provides
an efficient and well-organized infrastructure and also provides access to knowledge and
observations facilitating better functionality and care towards the children.
As Nepal is an under-developed country, many of the population still utilizes stoves using wood
as fuel. The houses lack proper ventilation making it almost impossible for soot to escape. The
concentrated smoke and soot generated through these stoves can create health issues. The study
indicated that the open fire life is cause of around 70 various diseases.
A smoke-free oven costs around €151 (inclusive of transportation and installation) which a more
energy-efficient option for cooking.
This smoke-free energy-efficient system includes oven, tubes, and every other support required
for installation of the stove. These stove installation facilitates the organization to contribute
towards the improvement of living conditions of women.
The organization also helps in the improvement of the educational system and condition through
notebook initiative that helps school children in rural areas, orphanages or underprivileged
children.
Changes in NGO’s of Nepal
The knowledge about NGO’s is showing positive growth in Nepal. Most of the population of
Nepal now knows about the functions and benefits of NGOs for the development and growth of
the country’s social and economic condition.
The NGO number is increasing at a fast pace. Currently, there are around 6,000 NGOs
acknowledged by the Nepal government but the number of working NGOs working in different
fields, are estimated to be around 15,000. As an under-developed country, Nepal is counted
amongst the poorest countries. The NGOs working in Nepal perform a vital part in the social and
economic development at the most fundamental level. Government policies have also helped in
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the development of the non-profit sector in the country and has created complementary
conditions for the development of NGOs.
In Nepal, there are some locally founded and supported NGOs but most of the NGOs are backed
by foreign organizations and foundations. There are many well-known international NGOs
(INGOs) in Nepal that are helping in the improvement of living conditions of the population. The
various NGOs are founded with the aim of fulfilling certain goals such as the development of
impoverished and orphan children, empowering women, senior citizen care, etc. Some of these
NGOs are developed for the improvement of women’s living conditions and are run by women
workers.
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