Our community is young. Three in four Nepal born people in NSW are aged 15 to 34, the ages when mental ill health is most common across Australia. Yet fewer than half of Australians living with a mental disorder saw a health professional about it. Language, stigma and unfamiliar systems can make that gap wider.

What MFH does: Hamro Chautari gatherings, awareness in Nepali and English, and warm referrals to culturally safe services.

Cumberland, where MFH works alongside the local council, has some of the highest poker machine losses in NSW: about $1.4 million every day. Across the state, more adults are harmed by someone else’s gambling than by their own.

What MFH does: shame free conversations in Nepali, support for families, and a clear path to free, confidential gambling help.

Only about 1 in 200 people in Australia was born in Nepal. Yet over the past decade, Nepal was one of the three main countries of birth among people born overseas who drowned. Recent arrivals are the most exposed, and most of our community arrived recently.

What MFH does: subsidised learn to swim lessons at Auburn Ruth Everuss Aquatic Centre with Cumberland City Council, and beach safety in Nepali.