Background of the organisation
Established in 2012 in Jhamsikhel, Lalitpur, 'Praramva' is a leading social organisation inspired by a charitable spirit of service to Nepal and the Nepali people. The organisation was founded under the leadership of Kalpana Kshetri, a social worker and successful woman entrepreneur who returned home after more than two decades in the United States. Active since its founding in education, health, agriculture, tourism and improving citizens' quality of life, Praramva has been working with the aim of bringing sustainable and positive change to society.
Our vision
A self-reliant, healthy and educated society, where our charitable collaboration can contribute by directly supporting communities in urgent need and those left behind, in ways that give lasting results.
Our mission
We want to do effective work in education, health, infrastructure and livelihoods. Our mission is, through our efforts, to help rural areas and disaster-affected communities, raise their morale and bring smiles to their faces. Along with that, we want ordinary citizens to have access to education and health.
Our leadership & team
Kalpana Kshetri
Founder President
The tireless hard work and activity of Kalpana Kshetri, a successful woman entrepreneur and social worker who returned to Nepal after a long stay in the United States to dedicate herself to charitable service, together with her spirit of service and the far-sighted leadership she has given to achieving the organisation's goals, has brought Praramva to the height it stands at today.
Founder President Kshetri is the backbone of Praramva. Through her charitable work she has received various social honours and awards in Nepal and abroad.
Kedar Koirala
Social Worker / Journalist
With long experience in journalism and mass communication, journalist Kedar Koirala, active in institutional governance and public relations, is a well-known name in Nepali television. Serving as secretary, senior journalist Koirala is a valued colleague of the organisation.
Badri Raj Timalsina
Journalist & Young Entrepreneur
Badri Raj Timalsina, a young activist working in communications and the social sector for two and a half decades, is Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of Lahachhap Media, former President of the Federation of Nepali Journalists, Kavrepalanchok, and Director of Best FM 88.1. Providing dynamic leadership in digital media strategy, social coordination, strong public relations at home and abroad, and project delivery, Timalsina has served as Praramva's treasurer and project head since 2015.
As a social activist, young entrepreneur and active journalist, his leadership skills keep Praramva moving forward.
'Praramva Model House', our long-term project
We set out on our social journey with the resolve that Praramva is itself the beginning of change. We understand that the core service-minded plans our efforts have given communities so far, and the achievements we have gained, have brought some change to society. With this understanding and aspiration, we want to produce some skilled, experienced and capable people in Nepal under our leadership. We teach each person whatever they know and whatever they want to do. We want to give shelter, with dignity, to people with disabilities, people with special abilities, single women and people affected by natural disasters. We want to give them jobs. We want to connect them to income through skills-based training. We want to build a school, rich in values, for studying language and practical knowledge. For this, we want to build a language training and technical training centre, a safe house, or a 'model house' for home-made products, and run it as a long-term plan. This is the core spirit behind Praramva's founding and the organisation's dream. Praramva has taken this on as its 'long-term project'. Our success is tied to its success.