Tilak Ram Tharu – Nepalese Olympian

Tilak R. Tharu, representing Nepal, took part in men’s 100 m race in 2012 Summer Olympics held in London. He is from Nawalparasi and the first Tharu to participate in world famous Olympic game. TFA honored him with some cash and a certificate in a program

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Tharu Kalyankarini Sabha (TKS) Central Office, Kathmandu

Tharu Kalyankarini Sabha (TKS) Kapilbastu district organized a program attended by the TKS district president, Umashankar Tharu, and the TKS central member, Janjir Prasad Tharu, and distributed relief packages worth NRs. 25,000 each to five families that lost the primary breadwinner to COVID-19. The relief packages

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Backward Society Education (BASE), Western Nepal

Backward Society Education (BASE) distributed food items, health safety materials and educational materials to 36 children and their families in Dang District in consultation with local government. Health checkups were provided by mobile health teams. Distributed items included rice, dal, cooking oil, salt, sugar, soaps, hand sanitizers,

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Covid-19 Help Fund

COVID-19 was ravaging through many parts of Nepal in late Spring of 2021 and there was a crisis unfolding in many localities. TFA jumped into action by announcing fund raiser campaigns. There were two separate efforts:   The first effort was by Tharus living in Santa

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Chet Narayan Chaudhary Help Fund

Chet Narayan Chaudhary, the former treasurer and life member of TFA, passed away during a medical treatment at a local Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, USA on April 23, 2021. He is survived by his wife and a daughter. To support his family in this difficult time,

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