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Kate
Ruth - UK
- This is kate's 2nd time
volunteering with us. Kate is here for two and half months. Kate has
volunteered with us last year for two months. Kate
likes Nepal and it's people. Kate loves nature and want to teach to Children.
Kate is in Pokhara teaching at our Children's Resource Center at David's fall.
Kate has chosen our program to help to the children who are in need.
Erik Martin-
Australia-
Erik is here for four weeks to teach at our
Children Resource Centre in Patihani, Chitwan. He will be teaching English to
the children and giving them information about health education, sanitary
education, and environmental awareness as well. He is here not only
to teach but also to learn about Nepali culture and its life style. He wants to
experience himself in different culture and life style.
Roxanne Ayotte -
Switzerland -
Roxanne is here for
two weeks to teach the children in Children Resource Centre in Thulakhet,
Pokhara. Roxanne
likes to know about different culture and enjoy with the local people. Roxanne is very soft hearted and children
loving person.
Stephanie Marin -
France -
Stephanie is
here for two weeks to
assist at Orphanage home in Chitwan. Stephanie is very soft, open hearted
person. This is first time for Stephanie to visit Nepal and
she is enjoying a lot being in a new place and new culture. Stephanie loves to help children and
wants to teach her various games skills to the children at Orphanage home.
Gela Wilhelm -
Netherlands -
Gela is here for 2
weeks to teach English to the children in Children's Resource Centre in Nirmal
Pokhari in Pokhara. She likes children and want to use different skills to the
children. Gela is interested to learn and know about different culture,
tradition and the life style of Nepali people. Gela is very open and
friendly natured personality.
Gail Reilly -
U.K. -
Gail is here for two months to teach at our Children's Resource Center in Pokhara at David's
fall. Gail is a nurse and will be giving knowledge about the health education,
sanitation and environmental awareness. Gail is there with her husband Andy.
Gail has done trekking before in Nepal. She is interested to learn more about
Nepal, Nepali culture and Nepali life style and she is enjoying being in totally
different culture and life style.
Andrew Reilly -
U.K. -
Andrew is here for
two months to volunteer in our Children Resource Centre in Pokhara in David's
fall. He is here with his wife Gail. Andy has also done trekking before in Nepal
with is wife. He is interested to learn more about Nepal, Nepali culture and
Nepali life style and she is enjoying being in totally
different culture and life style as well.
Chris Woodcock
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England
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Chris is here for five months to teach at our Children's Resource
Center in Sauraha,
Chitwan and to explore new cultures and meet new people and see as much of the
world as he can. Ultimately, though, he wants to volunteer to somehow make
a difference in impoverished communities where people suffer and have a much
tougher quality of existence than people do in the England.
Céline Gavillet Habach -
Switzerland - Celine is here for two months
to assist at Asahe Basti Orphanage home in Kathmandu. Celine is very open and
confidential personality. This is first time for Celine to visit south asia and
she is enjoying a lot being in a new culture. Celine loves to help children and
wants to teach her various games skills to the children at Orphanage home.
Latest News
New Children at Happy Home
We have five new Orphan Children at our Happy Home in
Chitwan and we are waiting for five more with in this month.
So we will have in total twenty five children at our Happy Home in Chitwan. All
of our Children are now starting their new class. We would like to give thanks
to Basanti who became a very good Mum looking after our Children and Sanjita who
helped our Children to learn extra hours.
We would like to Congratulate Sarita, Tenging and Mingma to
be on the top position in the class.
The new children Dipa and Dipika are sister and their father has got 2nd
marriged four years ago and disappeared from the village. Since then both Dipa
and Dipika were staying with their Mum but now their Mum has also left them and
we took them in our Happy home. We are very happy to announce that our past
Volunteers Jacquie Crowther and her friend confirmed to sponsor Dipa and Dipika.
Birendra Peace Home Children
The Birendra Peace welfare Hope Children have been admitted
in the School and their last year result is very good however some of the
children are still very weak in English and Math. We would like to place
volunteers in this home who are interested to teach Math and English. The home
is just half an hour walk able distance from the Center of Kathmandu.
Our Sponsored Girl – Anju Pathak
We are very happy to see our Organization’s efforts among
the Village Children. We sponsored Ranju Pathak who was in class five and now
Anju has finished her School. We are very sure that she will score a good mark
at the SLC. Now Anju has been invited to visit Holland from our past volunteer
Henk. We wish her visit will be very worthwhile and she will have some
understanding of western culture and develop.
Street Children's Home - Pokhara
Anil Bishwakarma, an 8 year old boy wants to have INFO Nepal Volunteers at his
Center because he can learn a lot of games from them and have fun. “I like to
practice my English and Volunteers love us” said Anil.
“I like to live in this place as I can go to School and
learn so many new things from INFO Nepal Volunteers” said Sunila 7 years old and
who came in to this center 6 months ago from Lake Side Street.
The Street Children’s Rehabitation Center in Lake Side
Pokhara has been looking after 29 Street Children since 2007. INFO Nepal is
helping this center supplying educational materials, beds, house rent and
sending Volunteers to teach Children. We would like to give a lot of Thanks to
the Organizer who is doing an example work in Nepal. There are so many
Organizations working for Street Children and this Organization is one of the
good examples in Nepal.
One of the members of the Center Mr. Ramesh Shrestha said
“If INFO Nepal and its volunteers haven’t been here from the beginning this
center wouldn’t be progressing this much now. INFO Nepal has showed the way to
improve the center and cared more for Children that is why children like to stay
in the center.” INFO Nepal should continue sending Volunteers for this center”
said Mr Ramesh Shrestha.
Two Day Care Centers in Chitwan
Our two daycare centers are going to complete in mid of May 2008 and
we are going to start the evening and morning class for those children who are
aged 7 to 12 years old and haven't attend school before. In the day time small
children from the village will be joining at the center. The main purpose of the
center is to create an educational environment around the areas and aware local
people about important of the education. We are hoping 29 adult children to join
in the morning and evening class and 36 children for the day class.
Manabia Orphanage Home
After our management in this home, we can see some
improvement, however there still needs to be a lot of change to the system. Now
the children are fully confident that they can live there and study with out any
tension. Now the children are sure that there is INFO Nepal who will pay the
School fees regularly and the house rent. Since last month, the children’s
health has been improved and they are very happy to have different vegetables
every day. “It was too much frustration for us to keep moving house every six
months and in the school not paying the school fees on time , our friends and
the teacher used to insult / laugh at us “said Alina Shahi 11 years old.
We have set up an account in the shop near by the home so
that the Children can eat any things they want for their dinner, Lunch and take
any food items at the school for their Tiffin.
“We never had Tiffin at School before and used to watch
others eating but now we can have different Tiffin at the school” said Chadhani
Gurung. Since we supplied enough Shop, Shampoo, Tooth Brushes, and Pest and
bought a lot of clothes for Children, they seem very clean and hygienic.
March 2008 - Happy Home Chitwan
February was a very busy month with a lot of work done in
Chitwan. The main work has been done in Chitwan, Happy Home. Now our Happy home
is a completed home for the children.
 Our children have hot water, washing
machine and security fence around the home. The new Library is fantastic and
thanks to Sheena who has worked hard on the design. Our community children are
very happy to have Library back in their village. We would like to thank Donald
Munro who donated money for the Happy Home in Chitwan. With the help of his
friend Nadia Happy Home now has a new fence, windows and hot water which is very
much appreciated. The Happy home did not have roof on the top floor and now we
have a roof so that the kitchen and dinning room will be safe from the rain. Our
children are very happy to have windows in the dining hall.
We celebrated at the Happy Home Bastu Pujato (Blessing of the house) to protect
the children.
Thanks also to Nadia's work colleagues and her sister Karen who have donated
money for the new mattresses, clothes and bicycles for the children. Nadia’s
involvement with our organization is a great contribution and has shown us how
to work with donors. 
After bringing our children to the Happy Home we stopped the village children
coming to our Library because we wanted to give our children a feeling that this
Happy Home is their home. Now we have reopened a separate library and need to
work on integrating our children and the village children in the same ground and
library so that the relationship will be good and our children and Volunteers
can get good respect from the villagers.
Our village children are very happy to have Library back which has been
renovated and stocked with new books. “After our Library became Happy Home we
were thinking that we never get chance to access the library and learn from
Volunteers, but what Uncle (Asim) has promised, now it is being done “ Said
Kanchan Ghimire- 12 years old from the next door of Happy home. Chitiz 12 years
old in front of happy home is very happy to have a big ground where he can play
cricket and table tennis and meet all of his friends at the new Library, said
“Thanks a lot for Donald for his great contribution for our bright future”.
 We would like to give thanks to our volunteers Anne and Dan who raised money for
our new project “ Child Day Care center in Sitamai." The work is going on
rapidly and we are hoping to open it from April. This is the Village where we
built 22 toilets in 2005.
The villagers are very happy with this day care center. In a our research we
found that among 32 children who are aged from 5 to 8 , only 15 children are
going to school. So our target will be those children who are the right age to
go to School but because of their younger brother and sister they could
not attend school because they were child minding. Also some of the parents who
are landless in these areas can’t go to work both because of the small child at
home. If we can take care of their child at the daycare center then both can
go to work and earn some money. “Now my wife also can go to work “said Gan
Bahdur Gurung. "
This center is just starting to bring more awareness about Education, Health
and Sanitation in these areas. We need to do a lot after the center has
stabilized for the Environment and Education. There will be around 40 children
every day at the center for the Education. So in April months our three projects
are going to serve around 150 children every day in Chitwan.
Current News from the Placement:
Sheena Cadoo ( Curent
Volunteer ) - Ireland - Chitwan placement - 11th March 2008
 Ganganagar library re
-opened its doors on 17th Feb after a couple of busy weeks painting,
cleaning, laying carpets and putting up plastic ceilings (all new skills to
be added to the c.v.!) Eleven 11-13 yr attend the
morning session and fourteen 4-9 yr olds attend the evening session. The
library provides them with the opportunity to develop their English through
grammars activates, word games, picture competitions and craft. Friday is
sports day when the kids play table tennis, basketball, football and
skipping. They are fantastic children
and are really eager to participate. The older children have excellent
English and have been known to stump me with their complex questions on
verbs!!
The library had been closed
for approx a year so they are all really pleased to be back interacting with
volunteers, developing their English and having fun.
I have been staying in the
Happy Home beside the library so when Im not working on lesson plans or
making posters, I have been helping the other volunteer with the children.
Ganganagar is really beautiful, the people are friendly, there are bikes to
explore the area, good books in the library and the local shop sells
Cadburys chocolate - all in all its been a fantastic experience!
Daba Raj Ghimire -
Local Co-ordinator - Chitwan - Childcare Center - Update on 10th March 2008
Hi Asim and INFO crew,
The building of Childcare
center is going well.
 Every day there are 7 youth from the village are
working on the contraction site. There was a bit delay last week because of
lack of Cements. All the villagers are very excited to see the center complited. The youth are very happy to get a job every day on the center and
thinking that if there will be more projects in the village, they should
stop thinking to go to Saudi Arab or Malesiya to work.
All the mothers of the
village are very excited to see their children being lookafter at the center
so that they can go to work. The more happy are the big brother and Sister
of the each family, thinking that now they can go to school after the center
running. There are 9 older brother and sister who have naver been to the
school when they are age 9 to 11 years old. Rita Bika (Thuli Kanchi) who is
11 years old and has naver been to school is very happy to go to
School after
learning at this center for few months so that she can cope in her class
with younger one. So this center is going to serve up to 60 children of this
village.
Gadgai, Children's
Resource Center
This resource center is
also going very fast. All the youth are very excited and donating their free
time to build this center. Yes, the work last week was a bit slow because
lack of the Cements, but now it is going fast. The roof of the building has
made with trust with Iron pipe and all the walls plastering and door and
windows are already fixed. Now we are waiting for you (Asim ) to come and
buy the Tin for the roof. The youth already started to work on the flower
garden in front of the center. We need to place two volunteers in this
placement because there are so many children in this village and as the
center is middle of the village there will be many children coming to the
Library to learn . The Host family is just 1 minute walkable distance from
the center with Toilet and bathroom. We are hopping to start it from April
first week. We would like to give a lot of thanks to Anne and Dan from
Ireland who have helped for this center to complete.
Daba Raj Ghimire -
Local Co-ordinator - Chitwan
Donation to
the Health post and School
In February 2008 INFO
Nepal has donated a DVD to Patihani Health post." Now we can show in a
village any health related documentary to the people" said Ram Hari the in
charge of the health post. With out DVD there was a big problem for the
health awareness program in the village. Now a lot of mother from the
village goes to the health center to know more about how to take care of a
child and how to keep hygienic their house. We would like to thanks to Room
to Read who has contributed a Library in Rastria Prathamik school in
Dhanauji. We INFO Nepal has decorated it with painting on the building, door
and windows. We are very happy to help the Disabled center in Dhanauji
providing Lunch, Educational materials and any row materials that can be use
of incoming source for the disabled children of the village.
 Our Happy home is
running very well. Children are very happy during the 2nd term exam and scored
very good marks.
Sarita scored top marks in whole school and she became first. Mimgma and Tenging
are also first position in their class.
Kabita came 3rd
position running in her class and Sarmila sweet jumped 2nd position among the
girls. Furbu became sweet jumping first in whole school. Migma scored top
position in running and sweet jumping under the 12 years old group. Sonam also
became the first runner in his class.
Because of their
achievements and talent next term Tenging, Mimgma and Sarita are going to
upgrade their class.
 The Happy Home
seems more clean and hygenic then before and we would like to thanks a lot to
Elizabeth and Daniel for decorating Happy Home as a Christmas home.We really like to
give a big thanks to our volunteers who been to Happy Home to make it real Happy
house.
We would like to
congratulate Sarad who was helping teach our children is getting married. We
wish her all the best and happy life in coming days.
THE NEW CHITWAN
HAPPY HOME IS UP AND RUNNING!!
 We
have some very good news regarding our new Happy Home in Chitwan. It is finally
up and running! On September 6th, after having moved in all the
materials, four INFO Nepal volunteers and one Nepali staff member welcomed the
13 children to the New Happy Home. The children are 6 to 9 years old. They
attend an English Medium School every day, from nursery through class 2. Three
of the children are from the Happy Home in Kathmandu, four are from Sauraha, and
six were brought from the Goljung region of Langtang.
Thanks to our volunteer and staff, everything seems to be
running quite smoothly at the Happy Home. The lice and scabies from the
children’s hair and arms are gone (thanks in great part to Helen Henderson’s
nursing skills!), and the children have adjusted to their new environment.
At the new Happy Home, we have built nine rooms – one
kitchen, one dining room, one large study hall, two rooms for volunteers, and
four rooms for the children. There is, additionally, a beautiful garden and
playground in the backyard, a library of 500 books, some games (including the
much-loved Caram Board), a fridge/freezer, and even a TV/DVD!
Past volunteers may remember Tenjing, Mingma, and Sarita
from the Happy Home in Kathmandu. To update you on what they think of their new
lives in Ganganagar, Chitwan: Tenjing is very happy to be in Chitwan Happy Home
but he is missing Nawarash. Mingma is enjoying the rural setting, as she is
able to go to the Rapatip River on the weekends for fishing. She is also being
a very good help to Mumy as well as the other children. Sarita was a little
worried about the heat of Chitwan at first, but has now realized that when
winter arrives she will still be able to take hot showers, so now she is quite
happy! All three children, being very experienced in
 the running of Happy Home,
have now taken on leadership roles in Chitwan.
We
would like to thank Colm McKeown, Helen Henderson, Annelen Schartner, and Roland
Trauer for their help in the first month of operation at the Happy Home.
Without their help and input, such a smooth start to our Happy Home would not
have been possible.
F.Y.I. We will be sending our children back to their
villages for the Dashain Festival. When they return, we will make a two-year
plan for each child. If you are hoping to sponsor a child, please contact us
and we will send you the children’s details after Dashain, when the children
have returned from their villages.
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staying
with our host family very much! There
are 5 members and one of them is in
Kathmandu living in Happy Home (INFO Nepal
sponsors them to go to school there).
That leaves the mother and father and two
younger sisters. The family is Tamang
and has their own language and only the
father knows Nepali and a few words in
English. Somehow we managed to
communicate!
morning and once in the afternoon.
After dinner, we had the evenings to
ourselves. The library is big but only
has one chair and one table, and a
bookshelf. Fortunately for these
children, the supply seems to be better here
(ok, maybe not better but definitely more).
We tried reading to them. It's hard
when there are 40 of them and they range in
age from 0 years to 16 years old!