A few times a year we travel to Nepal to help
the children of an orphanage in Kathmandu.
The children in this particular orphanage are not
lucky enough to have government funding. As it turns out that most
of the 900,000 orphans in the area have no help from
the government whatsoever, they can only rely on donations given by
some of the local community, and in a 3rd world country that does not amount to
much.
So we do what little we can to help these kids.
Small things such as shoes, school books, school uniforms, and personal items
are some of the things we like to give.
It is unfortunate that Nepali customs does not
allow these items to enter the county free of scam tax and duties, so we
normally just buy things locally or have things made.
The bigger items such as building materials we can
only purchase when the timing is right for us, but we do what we can.
My wife and I do not ask for donations as we do this as a labour of love
and know its a good thing. But for the children we will never turn away someone
that might want to help. For those who do I usually email photos and things
of that nature but now I will have this Blog to post all the good things people
do for our RED's adventures.
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| RED .. ready to see the kids again |
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| RED seems to have his own channel now.. lol |
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| Out buying the basics at a local shop |
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| 100kg bags of rice getting carried to the waiting car for the kids |
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| RED getting some company for the trip |
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| 100kg bags of legumes and sugar |
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| Maybe the car is full? |
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| This is one tough car with 100's of kg of good stuff |
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| Trying to fit in the car.. right next to 100kgs of onions.. lol |
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| Looks old but its a new needed sewing machine for the orphanage |
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| Some of the kids |
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| Thank you RED |
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| See you all again very soon |
We would like to thank the people who helped out on this trip with either their monetary donation or clothing as well as wishing us well with their hearts.
Ilse, Jean and Rob (and their friends) as well as the Qatar Airways crew that flew us in that day. You all made so much of this possible.
