Annual Report 2025

We look back with gratitude on an eventful year for Usthi. In 2025, 13 Usthi projects reached around 46,000 people.

Behind this figure lie countless encounters, helping hands and thousands of individual life stories. In 2025, children and young adults studied with hope and ambition in our schools. In the Children’s and Women’s Homes, the project team created a safe and stable environment. Patients received medical care at the Tribal Health Centre. Families fed their new goats and buffaloes provided through the Education Project in Dhading, so that in the long term they can use the income from the livestock to pay for their children’s education. Hard-working volunteers cleaned the beach as part of the Waste Management Project in the Penthakata settlement and the prevention team carried out awareness-raising work in Hyderabad to protect against abuse and violence. All these moving moments are just a few glimpses into the Usthi projects and an impactful 2025.

We are very pleased to report on the successes and challenges of the past Usthi year in this annual report. The individual contributions provide insight into the daily project work and the collaboration with our partner organisations.

With your support, we can create future opportunities. Thank you for standing with us in supporting disadvantaged children and young adults.

We wish you an engaging and insightful read.

Your Usthi Team

Besprechung des Abfallmanagements am Strand von Penthakata

Handover of Waste Management to the City of Puri

With a formal handover ceremony, the City of Puri has taken over responsibility for the operation and financing of waste management in the Penthakata settlement from Usthi. Usthi remains committed to integrating this topic into the surrounding schools. The new video shows where the waste management project starts – and why. One of Usthi’s schools […]

Sturzflut in Nepal

Flash Flood in Nepal

On Wednesday, 26 August 2026, a devastating flash flood caused widespread destruction in Nepal, north-west of Kathmandu, along the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli rivers. Lives were lost and many people remain missing. Homes, roads and vital infrastructure have been destroyed, leaving families without their livelihoods. Usthi is deeply saddened by the devastating events. Our thoughts are […]

der neue Schulbus an der Penthakata Schule

New school bus in Penthakata

The first test drive caused great excitement among the children at Penthakata School. Since July, the new school bus – made possible by the generous donation of an Indian supporter – has been in regular use. Every morning, the children from the informal fishing settlement on the outskirts of the city make their way to […]