By Cathy Clifton | Communications Director, Ama Foundation
The mission of Ama Ghar, our home for rescued children in the beautiful Godavari valley, near Kathmandu, is to provide a home and education for the most disadvantaged children of Nepal and provide them with the opportunity to become productive Nepali citizens. With the help of donors like you, we fund education for the children as far as their talents will take them. For some, this means university and beyond - for others, this means vocational school. But so far, all of our Ama Ghar "alumni" have succeeded in becoming happy, healthy, self-supporting adults.
One great example of the success of our mission is our Ama Ghar daughter Manisha. She came to us as a small child from a remote village, and from the beginning she's been very serious and studious, always working hard and excelling in school. Sometimes her aunties and uncles even had to force her to get up from her desk and go outside to play with her brothers and sisters - she's a wonderful athlete, but her studies always came first!
Manisha's positive, hard-working attitude has really paid off for her. She is studying for her Bachelor's in Hotel Management, and in addition to her college curriculum, she has completed an internship at the prestigious Summit Hotel in Kathmandu, where she worked in every department, from the kitchen to the front desk, as well as an eco-tourism project in the countryside near Pokhara. Her next exciting adventure before she completes her degree will be to intern with an American hotel chain in Malaysia - this will be a big step away from her Ama Ghar family, and her first airplane trip, but it's sure to help her to get a great job when she graduates.
These success stories, moving children from poverty and malnutrition to healthy, productive lives, would not have a happy ending without you. Please donate TODAY, on Global Giving's 30% Matching Day, and help us to raise 30% more funding for tuition, books, uniforms and more. Thank you for believing that we can save the world, one child at a time.
Links:
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
