*Wrench Nepal's programs are on hiatus. A gracious thank you to everyone who helped us get even this far.*

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What is Wrench Nepal?

Wrench Nepal is an organization that partners with local and locally-run NGOs to provide bicycle-based vocational trainings and projects for disadvantaged youth in the Kathmandu Valley.

Our most recent partners were Prisoners Assistance Nepal and the Nepal RugMark Foundation.

Our projects:

• Provide opportunities for Nepalis to learn immediately marketable job skills

• Teach general mechanical skills—which way a screw tightens, how bearing systems work—widely applicable Nepali life and jobs in Nepal

• Support and build English-language skills among our students, which is broadly applicable to job markets in Nepal and allows access to global bodies of knowledge

• Empower youth through the mastery of a skill and the completion of a goal

• Facilitate valuable cultural exchange with youth who would otherwise likely be denied the opportunity to learn from and reciprocally teach Western visitors in mutually rewarding ways

• Support many of those whom mainstream Nepali society has left out or discarded, through inclusion in our projects
  

• Support sustainable, environmentally-friendly solutions to the problems of transportation

• Create opportunities for a different—but no less qualified—type of person may participate and dialog in the challenges of Development

You can read all about our trials and tribulations on our blog.

Getting Involved

To get involved with Wrench Nepal, check out our Volunteer page, or email mario@wrenchnepal.org.

 

Partnering with Wrench Nepal

Wrench Nepal is always looking for in-country and external partners for our programs: bike shops or appropriate technology NGOs looking for apprentices with mechanical skills; Nepali and expatriate friends-of-the-shop who can provide guidance and support; local NGOs whose goals and missions dovetail with our own.

If you or our organization is interested in partnering with Wrench Nepal, email contact@wrenchnepal.org.

 

Our Mission

Wrench Nepal exists to provide marketable jobs skills to the disadvantaged, while providing affordable, environmentally safe transportation. Our goal is to maintain a self-sustaining bicycle shop in which school-age employees are given the skills needed to become competent mechanics and business people. We support economic sustainability, challenge the mechanisms of the cycle of poverty and advocate for environmental issues as they relate to transportation.