The KGH Foundation, a part of the KGH Group of Hotels and Resorts, was established to instigate and manage the groups Corporate Social Responsibility programs. Firstly to improve our own practices in all our hotels. Secondly, to focus on health, education, environment and to provide social, economic & welfare support for the underprivileged.
Food for Life
– KGH Staff contribute from their annual wage to Food for Life, who provides free lunches to school children in need.
Environmental Activities.
– On the yearly occasion of World Tourism Day our staff partake in various projects including cleaning the shoreline of Phewa Lake (Pokhara), Budhanilkantha Temple (Kathmandu) and Shree: Gha Temple (Kathmandu)
The KGH Group CSR program has a deep meaning to the lives of our Board of Directors. It reflects that our lives have been affected similarly to those we seek to help. We have both lost and saved loved ones to
cancer. In addition we have worked with victims sold to brothels and personally feel about the issues we work for.
A nation-wide pro-active awareness program, initiated by our Founder Karna Sakya, to foster positive thinking.
The KGH-Foundation, along with Monsalvat Asia, renovated the Kanti Oncology Ward. Previously unsuitable and unhygienic for child cancer patients, this major face lift has led to better conditions and treatments.
KGH Motor Rally – Kathmandu to Pokhara is a yearly event to raise support for The Nepal Cancer Society and the Cancer Helpline.
Fostering Educational opportunities Under-resourced students are offered subsidized/sponsored places
at our Residency Training Institution at Park Village Resort, to enable them to enter the work-force.
Women and girls are often regarded as unclean during menstruation, resulting in girls missing school and women forced into Chaupadi (menstrual huts). Beni Handicrafts produces Freedom Kit-Bags (washable sanitary pads), which KGH-Foundation purchases and distributes free of charge to remote villages.
Rehabiliting trafficked girls, rescued by Maiti Nepal by providing relevant work training that allows them to get jobs in KGH Hotels and reintroduced into society with respect.
Collection of the country’s finest traditional and contemporary art
Supporting projects related to the preservation of Newari and Buddhist traditions.
EIA Certified Hotels
by the Government of Nepal
– Ministry of Forests and Environment
– Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation
Kathmandu Guest House, Thamel, Kathmandu
Park Village Resort, Budhanilkantha, Kathmandu
Maruni Sanctuary Lodge, Chitwan