Updates


March 2007 In March 2007 the children are moving into a new house about 10 minutes walk from the old one.
We have taken a lease of 3 years on the new house which still has only 2 bedrooms for the children and we hope that in the meantime we can raise enough sponsorship to eventually be able to afford a bigger house
One big advantage of the new house is a large garden where the children will have space to play safely outside and grow vegetables.
Krishna, one of our local benefactors, is building a kitchen/dining room and a wash room in his spare time using almost entirely materials donated by locals.
Early March 2007

The new house	Krishna's new kitchen!	The garden
April 2007

Finished kitchen	Final preparations	Kitchen
More pictures after the move in Gallery 2

We are happy to welcome a new girl in our centre! Her name is Sushma and she is 8 years old.

Susma's father has divorced her mother years ago. Now the mother is working in a small dance restaurant to earn something for living. The father married again. Since the second marriage of the father, Sushma hasn't been taken care of and wasn't allowed to go to school any more. The girl's father told her to go to her mother. So she went. After a while her mother heard about it and went looking for Sushma. Luckily, they have found each other soon. The mother has asked MBKK to provide help for the education and shelter. She will support Susma providing food herself.

Conditions for the children have improved greatly. Krishna has dug a well so they will have less problems during periods of water shortages. He has also installed wire mesh on the windows to keep out mosquitoes and clothes hangers in the bedrooms. Because of the summer heat we have bought fans for the rooms. The children are doing well at school and, thanks partly to the garden, getting a better diet. Kuhl Bahadur has had an ear infection for some time and is now booked in for an operation in September which, it is hoped, will cure the problem (he has been on antibiotics to prevent infection in the brain). Julie will visit in August.

Saying goodbye to Israelian volunteers Leora and Amalia at the end of July was a very hard thing to do for both sides. Luckily Amalia and Leora continued to visit sometimes and in the mean time new faces arrived in the children's home: Barbara, Felix, Peter and Julie. Among other things, they took the children on outings, swimming for the very first time, a pic-nic and to the movies! From Belgian clothing shops JBC and Promofashion, the children received 100 kg new clothes. The first kg's are already in Nepal. Clothes that aren't fitting were brought to a rural village and another orphanage in need. Meanwhile kitchen materials are bought, food for the following 2 months, toiletry, etc. The children look healthy.

On September 6, we celebrated the second anniversary of the children's home. Because the date of birth of most of the children is not known, we also celebrate the birthday of all children on that day. Friends and syphatisants were invited and Krishna presented our yearly 'Progress Report'. The party has been wonderful with happy faces all around.

On September 17, Kuhl Bahadur was admitted in the hospital for the operation of his ear. The operation went well and without any complications. After one week of hospitalisation, Kuhl Bahadur could return home again. At the moment he is recovering in a small room seperated from the boys room, so he can have some rest and recover, before there is a second operation. Many thanks to the people who have helped out to cover the costs for the operation, the hospitalisation and medication!

October is the month of the widely celebrated Dashain festival. All Nepali people take a break from their jobs (if they have one) and every one attends to visit their families. Mostly, to reach their relatives, they have to travel quite a while, but no one wants to miss this family festival. Animals are offered, there are religious practices and on tika-day -the highlight of the festival- every one receives a blessing and 'good luck'. Unfortunately, the children can't go back to their families, in some cases because it is not possible, in some cases because of the psychological consequences it would bring for the child. We try to celebrate Dashain in the children's home, with tika-day and the traditional play with kites. The children love making their own kites, let it fly away on the roof and try to keep it in the air as long as possible, without being taken down by other kites.

Ulrike and Steve have arrived in the children's home in the mean time. They have brought clothes, have been organising outings, medical care, bought kitchen material, books for the children, food... Steve has been teaching martial arts to the children and Ulrike transformed our little ones into real artists. Thank you so much for your enthusiasm and help Ulrike and Steve!

Kuhl Bahadur is still recovering from the operation. He's doing relatively well.

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