Method
What we check before a single rupee moves.
Anyone can send money to Nepal. The difficult part is knowing it landed where it was meant to, with an organisation that was still standing, still registered, and still doing the work it described. That is what the 12% pays for, and this page is the whole of it.
The chain
Seven steps, in this order, every time.
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Engagement signed
Amount, fee, the three-month window, and what the mission must deliver, in writing. The signature is the trigger. Nothing starts on a handshake.
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12% cleared
Invoiced against that engagement. Flights are booked the same week. This is the only money that ever reaches a Give Nepal account.
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Three months on the ground
Disaster-touched districts, orphan schools and special schools first. Candidates are found by walking them, not by email.
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Every candidate put through the full check
The list below. A candidate that fails a stop line is finished that day and written into your rejected list with the reason.
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One organisation validated
Registration current, accounts audited, people met on site, past work inspected, and a named third party willing to confirm it in writing.
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You transfer the 88% yourself
Their bank details come from their bank, not from us and not by hand. You send it from your account to theirs. No account of ours sits between the two.
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The file closes
Registration, dossier, photographs and the signed receipt, all on your page. We do not promise reporting beyond that: once the money is with the recipient the timetable is theirs, and we will not put our name to progress we do not control.
Scope
Where we look first, and when we look wider.
Orphan schools and special schools in disaster-touched towns and villages are the focus. That is where a mission starts and, unless we tell you otherwise, that is what you will be offered.
We keep the right to look beyond it. A district can turn up nothing in the primary categories, or turn up something more pressing — families left with one parent after a disaster, a community building that served a whole village and is now rubble, somewhere for the young people of a town that has lost every other place to be. When that happens we would rather bring it to you than come back with nothing.
The rule that makes this safe is simple: anything outside the focus is named as an expansion of scope in your dossier, with our reasons, so you can see exactly what you are being asked to fund and why. You can decline it, and your 88% is still sitting in your account either way.
The check
Eight lines. Four of them end it on the spot.
After a disaster there is no time for a hundred-point audit, and a hundred-point audit is not what protects anyone. Eight things do. Our team carries these and fills one sheet per candidate.
- Registration certificate seen, and current — in the original, number matched to the name over the door. Ends it.
- Bank account in the organisation's name — never a personal account, never a middleman's. Ends it.
- Nobody asked for a cut — any finder's fee or commission. Ends it.
- Where the children came from is documented — which district, brought by whom. Undocumented arrivals. Ends it.
- Manager met on site, in person — name and position recorded, no identity documents photographed.
- The need seen with our own eyes — the damage, the building, the classroom, photographed and dated.
- Somebody independent confirms they operate there — the ward office, or a person we can name who the organisation did not introduce.
- A signed receipt agreed in advance — before you are given the bank details.
The fourth line is the one that matters most and the one nobody else asks. Money sent to the wrong residential home in Nepal does not rescue a child from poverty — it pays for one to be taken out of a family that still exists. We ask, every time, and we walk away when the answer is missing.
What we will not do
Four rules that cost us money and stay anyway.
- No child is ever named on a donor page. Photographs show the place, the work underway and the people doing it, at room level. Our page generator refuses to build a page whose caption contains a personal name.
- No page is tied to one child. The moment a single child becomes a single donor's child it stops being a project and becomes sponsorship, and that is the pattern that goes wrong.
- No identity documents, ever. We meet the manager and the assistant manager and record who they are. We do not photograph their papers, and the generator refuses any file that looks like one. A photograph of an ID card proves nothing that the register does not prove better, and publishing one exposes the person in it.
- No photographs of children without guardian consent held by the organisation. Confirmed in writing, and the page will not build without it.
The honest outcome
Three months can end in no.
If nothing passes that we would put our name to, we say so, and you receive the dossiers showing why each candidate failed. Your 88% never left your account and is still yours. The 12% is spent either way, because the search is the work — and a search that could only ever end in yes would not be worth paying for.
Every donor page carries the list of places we walked away from and the reason for each. A short list there would mean we were not looking hard enough.
Check us
Everything above is verifiable without us.
The registration number, the issuing office, the Social Welfare Council affiliation, the auditor, the third party who confirmed it, their own bank letter, the signed receipt matched to your transfer. Each of those is something you can pick up the phone about. That is deliberate. A trust chain that only works while you trust us is not a chain.