Thank you for learning more about running a Wishes for Nepal Day at your school or centre! We really appreciate your help and generosity in raising awareness and funds to improve early education in rural Nepal.

An event can be as little or big as you like, and held at any time of year.

Quick guide to a Wishes for Nepal Day!

• Introduce Wishes for Nepal to your class with our specially written story book and song

• Get your class doing some fun and educational activities to learn about Nepal. Our activities come with short instructional videos and/or templates. There’s lots of ideas to choose from, or come up with your own!

• Print out our Wishes for Nepal poster to pin up around your school or centre

• Get the children to decorate the downloadable fundraising envelope and take it home

• Hold your Wishes for Nepal fundraising day

• Get the children to dress up in prayer flag colours and bring in their envelope with a donation

• Transfer the money raised to First Steps Himalaya. Read on for more details.

To make your fundraising easy, use our ready made Poster and Donation Envelope

Learning Outcomes & Resources

By holding a Wishes for Nepal event, not only will you be raising money to help support improved education in rural Nepal, but the children will learn about others who have a very different life to them.

LEARNING OUTCOME: We are learning about how children live in Nepal.

Our story “Sita’s Search” has been written to show children what life is like in Nepal, and is a great starting point for discussion. Not only is Sita searching for her goat, but also for an education. She meets various friends along the way who for all sorts of reasons, cannot go to school. Find a copy of “Sita’s Search” by viewing our education resources, along with downloadable art projects.

Sharing your Story

We would love to hear about your Wishes for Nepal event!

Do send us news and photos and let us know if you are happy for us to share them on social media. We would also love to hear about any new ideas that you have come up with for activities.

Please email us at admin@firststepshimalaya.org

Transferring your funds to us

Once you have collected your donations for Wishes for Nepal, please send the funds to us by one of the following methods:

In New Zealand:
Bank of New Zealand, 226 Trafalgar Street, Nelson
Account number: 02- 0704-0065005-00 
Account name: First Steps Himalaya

From all other countries:
Transfers can be made via international transfer or credit card:

Transferwise: (our preferred method, as less fees for both parties)
Account name: First Steps Himalaya
Account number 02-0704-0065005-00
SWIFT code: BKNZNZ22
Address: Bank of New Zealand, 226 Trafalgar Street, Nelson, New Zealand

Givealittle: (credit card only)

or by using our DONATE button