Recent News and Updates
Show us your photos and help thousands of kids get back to school! Photography Contest, now open and accepting submissions until October 1st! In partnership with Feature Shoot and their new Instagram @childhoodeveryday, we’re looking for photographs that capture the experience of growing up around the world. Our jurors will select 12 photographers to be a part of our October 27th NYC gala & photography auction this fall, with all proceeds going to build 50 schools in areas affected by last year’s earthquake. Winning photographers will receive tickets to the gala, a camera strap from ONA bags. & their work printed by Ken Allen Studios & showcased on Feature Shoot.
July 28, 2016
Our friend and great supporter photographer William Vasquez and friend Greg Kinch along with 75 other teams, will be driving 2,100 miles across India in an auto rickshaw (in Greg’s words, imagine if a Vespa and a sofa had a child, it would be this rickshaw) which travels this August, raising funds for Kids of Kathmandu! Support their team here!
May 17, 2016
SHoP Architects ran the Brooklyn Half Marathon on May 21, 2016, and raised over $11,000 for Kids of Kathmandu! These funds will purchase enough school desks to fill 2 entire schools.
“Updates from our most Innovative Companies.”
-Fast Company, April 18, 2016
Fast Company highlights our work with SHoP Architects for the 50 schools.
We’re halfway there! We’ve partnered with MPOWERD! For the month of April, every portable solar light purchased here will go to our kids in the new schools, with the goal of 500. 301 sold already. Purchase one for $9.95 and it will be sent to Nepal.