Maya Foundation

Education in Nepal

Thirty empty beds at Maya Home

An initiative by Maya Foundation

Maya Home has room for 60 children and houses 30. The limit is money, not space.

The storyHow this started, and what it is for.3 paragraphs

Maya Home is the residential building on the school campus, for children who cannot stay in their home situation. It was built for 60. Thirty beds are in use. The other thirty stand empty for lack of funding, not for lack of children.

A place at Maya Home is a bed, three meals a day from the school kitchen, and a school day that starts on the same campus — beside the library, the computer lab, the sports fields, the small medical clinic and the farm. The building already stands. The staff are already employed. The kitchen already cooks.

That is what makes filling these beds the cheapest thing the foundation can do. Nothing has to be built and no organisation has to be added. A donation covers food, bedding, school materials and the staff time one more child costs. The Dutch board is unpaid and there are no overhead costs, so the money arrives at the school and stops there.

Maya Foundation is writing its own account of this initiative. Until it arrives the text above is a draft written on its behalf, and it claims no registration, status or amount that has not been filed.

What your donation makes possible€6,000 across 4 items — see the split.

Thirty beds stand empty for lack of funding, not for lack of children. This is what filling ten of them costs for a school year.

  • Ten children move into Maya Home for a full school year
  • Three meals a day from the school kitchen, every day of term
  • Bedding, clothing and washing for ten places
  • School materials and books, on the campus the children already live on

Where your money goes

€6,000
Three meals a day for ten children, one school year
€3,00050%
Bedding, clothing and washing
€1,20020%
House staff and night supervision
€1,20020%
School materials and books
€60010%
Total€6,000 = funding goal

€1,800 fills three of the empty beds for a school year. €6,000 fills ten. Nothing has to be built first: the building, the staff and the kitchen are already there.

At this budget one place costs €600 for a school year.

The target and the budget shown here are an illustration, not Maya Foundation's own figures: Maya Foundation has not published a budget for this work. They are replaced with its own numbers before anyone can give.

Milestones3 steps, the first at €1,800.
  1. €1,800 — Three beds filled — the first children move in at the start of next term

  2. €3,600 — Six of the thirty empty beds in use for a full school year

  3. €6,000 — Ten children housed, fed and schooled for a full school year

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About the organisationMaya Foundation — Education in Nepal.

Maya Foundation

Education develops communities — a free school in the Nepali hills, funded from the Netherlands.

  • KvK 65963504
  • ANBI-registered
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€6,000fundraising goal

Raised €20 · Goal €6,000

Next milestone

€1,800 — Three beds filled — the first children move in at the start of next term

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