6000 Street Children in Nepal: Give Them a Home

So time really flies in Nepal when you deal with children - we have just celebrated the Nepali New Year and now we're in 2074! 

Our children celebrated the New Year combined with the International Day fo Street Children by holding an arts contest with other children from the area. A local artist was a judge and she chose the winner. It was a lot of fun and all children enjoyed it so much - you never know, maybe one day on the future one or more of them will become famous artists themselves. 

Our garden is looking better and better and we are not getting a lot of our own organic vegetables. All the boys and us were digging our first potatoes of the year and we had a competition who could find the biggest one. 

From very sad news, our buffalo broke her leg so we are still not sure if she will recover but we got best vets involved so there is still a chance. And she is a strong lady! We will know in 2 months time. All the boys are looking after her very well.

And from very happy news - Raju, our wonderful boy whom we lost a few months ago to a street gang and got taken to Delhi, came back on his own to our home and he cannot be happier. We had a big celebration at the home then.  

Two of our oldest boys have just done their work experience during the school holidays at our charity cafe in Kathmandu (The Cafe with No Name) and one of them wants to study in the capital next year and work part time with us. They learnt how to make good coffee, food, all the hygiene and interacted with the customers very well. They practised their English a lot so were very happy. We arranged rock climbing for them in their spare time so they have experienced a lot of new things here.

Now the new school year has started so the boys are studying hard again.

We will be updating you with their progress shortly.

And as always, thank you so much for all the support - we wouldn't be able to run the project without it.

It's been an incredible couple of months in Birgunj. Thanks to Tobias from ASHA we got a new water filter donated, which means no more arsenic in our water and we don't have to buy drinking water anymore for the boys. They are very excited about having showers in very clean water!

We have also had some amazing volunteers helping at the home - thanks to them we have a new green house (now full of delicious tomatoes and chilies), wonderfully painted walls in the dining room and other areas, children got to know some circus skills and two film makers recorded a couple of fantastic videos for us. We will present the videos to you all soon. 

The boys also got a chance to practise their English and now some of them are even able to chat impressively about politics with any new visitors. There has also been a lot of dancing, music, making paper snowflakes for Christmas and as always - cricket! The weather in Birgunj is quite strange in the winter - for about a couple of weeks every year we get a really thick fog, that looks like something straight out of a Stephen King inspired movie! It can be quite scary not being able to see anything in front of you - but fun for the boys... 

We also welcomed two new boys to our home, two lovely brothers. They have adjusted very well, have started their school and their exam grades were amazing. 

We are hoping 2017 will be as good, or even better, than 2016. Thank you so much for all your support and please spread the word about us and our projects.