Thanks to the generous support of the Swiss Embassy in India, Usthi was able to carry out a second emergency relief operation. Last week, food parcels will be distributed to over 700 families at the sites of the two Usthi schools Ananda and Penthakata. While the emergency relief operation in Hyderabad has been completed, the […]

The new Usthi education project in Nepal should start in spring 2020. Usthi was already looking forward to cooperating with the local partner organisation. After the successful renovation of the school infrastructure, Covid-19 has unfortunately delayed the further development of the project. Both at the end of 2019 and during the visit at the beginning […]

As of 22 June 2020, the Usthi Foundation has a new executive director, Ms Alessandra Grosse. In future she will be responsible for the management of the foundation and thus for its day-to-day operations. In addition, Olga Egli returned from her maternity leave at the beginning of June and is now again responsible for fundraising […]

When India imposed a strict lockdown at the end of March to control Covid-19, public life came to a standstill in large parts of India. Despite rising corona numbers, the lockdown was lifted for the most part at the end of May. This will also enable the Usthi projects to partially resume operations. Whether the […]

After our projects and the beneficiaries of the Usthi Foundation were heavily affected by the lockdown, the Usthi projects are slowly resuming operations. Thanks to numerous donations, emergency aid for the affected families from the Usthi projects in Hyderabad was successfully provided and has now been completed. Following our three video messages, we wish to […]

The Annual Report 2019 is now available and gives a good general view of the activities of the past year. All projects are running successfully. The number of professional skills graduates, tuition centers and Back-to-School sponsorships has been increased. Besides that, additional abused women were taken care of. After the devastating cyclone in May 2019, […]

Already 1’000 food packages distributed. Usthi was able to distribute 1’000 food packages to single mother families of our children in the Back-to-School program and tuition center program. Because of your valuable support the diet of our children and their single mother are ensured till the first week of May. Hyderabad has just announced to […]

Life for our Children, young adults, employees and local partners gets more and more dramatic. All Usthi programmes in India and Nepal are closed down. Excluded from the taken actions, that are enforced by the police, are the Usthi Hospital and young adults, which have no family connections at all. Living conditions of the 200 […]

Daily routines in our Usthi programmes in India and Nepal were unexpectedly overshadowed by the Corona Virus disease at the end of February. Whilst writing these lines, all our schools and Usthi Centres in India and Nepal are closed. The salaries of approximately 400 employees and overhead costs, nonetheless, still have to be paid. The […]