Provide loving homes for homeless Nepali children

Project Report | Jul 9, 2007
The children at J and K House continue to thrive

By Janis Olson | Executive Director

Two Full Circle Success Stories

Dinesh lived on the street with his infant sister when he was about five or six years old. They were eventually admitted to a not-very-good government orphanage, where they spent their early years. After identifying his academic talent, the government asked that Dinesh be admitted to the J House.

Fast-forward to today and Dinesh is married and the CEO of an excellent new school that J and K House kids attend! A full circle – the former street child overseeing the education of kids at the home where he grew up and which gave him the opportunity to evolve into a whole, happy, and successful adult

The second story is a success story in the making. Raju was born with a condition called extrophy – he had no bladder, his intestines were exposed, and his hipbones were not joined. His mother could not afford to care for him, and because of his condition he was kept home, unable to attend school.

Today, years after a miraculous surgery in the US and being taken into the J House, Raju is a law student who with a group of other students just successfully filed a case in the Supreme Court of Nepal against child labor.

Click below to read the full success stories of these J House boys!

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Jan 26, 2007
January 2007 – dispatch from Nepal

By Olga Murray | President and founder of NYOF

Dear Friends:

Hello from a chilly but upbeat Kathmandu. There is a new energy and optimism in the air, as the decade-long civil war has come to an end. The Maoist insurgents have come in from the cold, joining the new government, and have agreed to participate in elections.

Nevertheless, our scheduled trip to the Dang area to rescue bonded children during the Maghe festival had to be aborted because another group of radicals blocked the roads to the area. This did not stop our local staff from rescuing over 200 young girls from being sent away, and bringing the anti-bonding message to the community with street plays, leaflets and posters. When we began our work in this area in January 2000, the bonding practice was commonplace and more than tolerated. Hundreds, no thousands, of girls would be sent off to work in the homes of strangers far away every Maghe, without any objection from anybody. We have largely eliminated the practice in our target community, with 2700 young girls who had been indentured now living at home and going to school...

And the J and K House children in Kathmandu did their part. On Maghe, they walked the streets of the city with NYOF staff, giving out leaflets asking passers-by not to employ under-aged children as household servants. Then they returned to the office and ate mountains of steaming momos (dumplings).

The kids are on their winter school holiday and are using the time to have fun and do a little good. They visited a run-down orphanage where the children are not nearly as well cared for as they are, brought the kids’ treats, painted the walls of the dormitory, taught a little English, and sang songs with the little ones.

We also enjoyed an outing to a beautiful mountain area about an hour from Kathmandu, where the kids hiked, played vigorously in the clean mountain air, sang and danced around the fire at night, and watched as a baby deer rescued from the forest by the hotel staff was fed milk from a baby bottle. I get so much pleasure from seeing the kids running around in the fresh, sparkling environment under the shadow of the snow-capped peaks, away from the pollution, noise and crowds of the city.

In this world of drive-by shootings, suicide bombings and mass killings, it’s good to know that there is a place in the world where life is getting better day by day.

Warm regards, Olga

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