NAPAC Ongoing Activities:
1. Voter registration;
2. Preparation for citizenship;
3. Scholarship to needy students in Nepal;
4. Symposiums on domestic violence, suicide prevention;
5. Involvement in mainstream public life;
6. Making Nepali language a recognized foreign language in schools in certain cities with high density of Nepali Americans;
7. Advocating for issues of importance to the community members;
8. Lobbying the Congress for issues of interest to the community members and;
9. Lobbying the Congress for economic development and support of democracy in Nepal
NAPAC Past Activities:
1. Voter registration drive;
2. Periodic meetings with public figures (Congressmen, Senators and other public officials);
3. Summer internship in the Congress and the White House;
4. Organizing rallies in support of the Democratic Movement in Nepal;
5. Lobbying for congressional support for the Democratic Movement in Nepal;
6. Lobbying congressmen for facilitating resolution of immigration related issues in individual cases;
7. Organizing interaction program on topics of mutual interest in collaboration with US universities (Columbia, George Mason, Morgan);
8. Organizing workshops and programs to building community leadership;
9. Workshop on “How to lobby your Congressmen and Senators’ at the ANA and ANMA and NASeA conventions;
10. Linking communities with their congressmen in Baltimore and Philadelphia and;
11. Introducing visiting Nepali politicians with Congressmen and Senators. |