Hi All
I’ve been feeling a bit guilty about living the tourist life style and having such a good time in such a poor country.
So today I spotted a notice on a telegraph pole asking for volunteers at a local orphanage. The guy who’d just put it up (Kul) saw me and we had a good chat about how it all works. Its only been going for a year and is community run, 7 people work there and decisions are made by a committee of 34 locals ect..
I wasn’t sure what help I could be but Kul was really enthusiastic so I agreed to walk out there with him this afternoon. (its about 5km out of town) In the end we all got a lift with this Taiwanese chap who had been helping there and then made the 15min off road hike up to the small building.
The kids are really nice and I sat there reading through there books with them (all in UK English that I’m semi literate in)
At one point we were doing body parts and one of the boys pointed to his head and said hair so I copied him but said no hair and made a sad face. This got a laugh and resulted in a little girl trying to colour my head in with a pencil, then rapping it in a bit of ribbon she had. I realized you don’t really see bald Nepali men as other people had asked about my hair (or lack of)
They’re really short of books and things so I’ve asked my children’s book obsessed sister if she can send a few ones she dosen’t need any more. If there were any more books in her house there’d be no room for people so getting rid of a few might make some space and give her an excuse to get some new ones.
Tomorrow I’m going to buy some lined note books and pencils for them and hike out there again.
If anyone else would like to send them books or kids clothes (ages 3 to 10) the address is:
Prabhat Paribartanshil Samaj Dalit,
Orphanage Children’s home,
Sarangkot- 2,
Sindurke Village,
Pokhara,
Kaski,
Nepal
http://prabhat-orphanage.com/
Thanks,
I’ve been feeling a bit guilty about living the tourist life style and having such a good time in such a poor country.
So today I spotted a notice on a telegraph pole asking for volunteers at a local orphanage. The guy who’d just put it up (Kul) saw me and we had a good chat about how it all works. Its only been going for a year and is community run, 7 people work there and decisions are made by a committee of 34 locals ect..
I wasn’t sure what help I could be but Kul was really enthusiastic so I agreed to walk out there with him this afternoon. (its about 5km out of town) In the end we all got a lift with this Taiwanese chap who had been helping there and then made the 15min off road hike up to the small building.
The kids are really nice and I sat there reading through there books with them (all in UK English that I’m semi literate in)
At one point we were doing body parts and one of the boys pointed to his head and said hair so I copied him but said no hair and made a sad face. This got a laugh and resulted in a little girl trying to colour my head in with a pencil, then rapping it in a bit of ribbon she had. I realized you don’t really see bald Nepali men as other people had asked about my hair (or lack of)
They’re really short of books and things so I’ve asked my children’s book obsessed sister if she can send a few ones she dosen’t need any more. If there were any more books in her house there’d be no room for people so getting rid of a few might make some space and give her an excuse to get some new ones.
Tomorrow I’m going to buy some lined note books and pencils for them and hike out there again.
If anyone else would like to send them books or kids clothes (ages 3 to 10) the address is:
Prabhat Paribartanshil Samaj Dalit,
Orphanage Children’s home,
Sarangkot- 2,
Sindurke Village,
Pokhara,
Kaski,
Nepal
http://prabhat-orphanage.com/
Thanks,
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