MISSION STATEMENT
The Unatti Foundation is a nonprofit organization that provides comprehensive programs for girls in Nepal who live in vulnerable situations. Through academic, health, and life skills education, Nepali girls become enlightened, empowered leaders who are inspired to give back, benefiting the girls' communities and future generations locally and around the world.
WHY GIRLS
At Unatti Foundation, we focus on girls because they face the greatest barriers—and because removing those barriers creates the greatest ripple effect.
In Nepal, enrolling girls in school is only the first step. The real challenge is helping them stay there. Nearly 80% of girls drop out before completing their education due to poverty, family instability, early marriage, household labor demands, and lack of support. These obstacles—not lack of ability—are what limit girls’ futures.
When girls are given the conditions to remain in school, everything changes. Educated girls are more likely than boys to stay rooted in their communities, becoming leaders, caregivers, and changemakers where they are most needed. Their education strengthens families, stabilizes communities, and sets in motion a powerful cycle of progress—lower birth rates, reduced poverty, increased self-reliance, cooperative decision-making, and higher educational attainment for future generations.
Investing in girls is not about changing who they are.
It’s about removing the obstacles in their way—so they can become who they already are.
When girls thrive, entire communities rise with them.
