Hope Foundation (HF) is officially registered in 2011 at the district Administrative Office of Kathmandu in Nepal and affiliated with Social Welfare Council of Government of Nepal (GON) as a non-governmental, non-political and non-profitable organization which intends to offer a non-discriminatory, supportive, community based approach while helping people to bring about changes in lifestyle. HF is a community based organization with a group of professional people having a history of experience on Drug Use & Harm Reduction, HIV/AIDS awareness & prevention, Anti Human trafficking activities, community development work. Most of the volunteers working actively in HF are people having history of Injecting and other route of Drug Using behavior, and people living with HIV/AIDS as well as the people who are actively working in the development of the society. The main purpose of forming the organization is to make a valuable contribution in various aspects of HIV/AIDS, Drug Use and Human trafficking prevention in Nepal by utilizing experience and the expertise of HF's members as well as the infected and/or affected volunteers and to work in the development of the society as it has a motto that тАЬTo develop the society is the development of the country as well to develop the country is the development of the worldтАЭ
Many people do not understand why people become addicted to drugs or how drugs change the brain to foster compulsive drug abuse. They mistakenly view drug abuse and addiction as strictly a social problem and may characterize those who take drugs as morally weak. One very common belief is that drug abusers should be able to just stop taking drugs if they are only willing to change their behavior. What people often underestimate is the complexity of drug addiction -- that it is a disease that impacts the brain, and because of that, stopping drug abuse is not simply a matter of willpower. Through scientific advances we now know much more about how exactly drugs work in the brain, and we also know that drug addiction can be successfully treated to help people stop abusing drugs and resume productive lives. HF works on highlighting the need to study risk perception, effectively assist in harm minimization and trains affected individuals to life as an ongoing process of spiritual growth and sobriety. HF started drug addiction treatment and rehabilitation Centre, located in Bansbari, Kathmandu helping people from chemical dependency and people living with HIV and AIDS as its first wing.
