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Thank you to all our volunteers of 2011!
Introducing the Chelsea Education Center
We are excited to announce a capital campaign for the establishment of The
Chelsea Education Center at Nepal Orphans Home. This Center will provide a
cornerstone for our vision to construct a campus in the Kathmandu Valley for our
children. In the Chelsea Center we will offer vocational classes/experiences
in our “Sustainable Livelihoods” project as well as provide life-skills guidance
and a place where advanced students may teach English to local community
members. Please visit the Chelsea Center page for more information about this important project.
Nepal Orphans Home is honored and privileged to have the support of Sanctuary for Kids Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that raises money for international and Canadian charities. Sanctuary for Kids particularly supports charitable organizations that provide vital services to youth and children who are in crisis. Please visit www.sanctuaryforkids.org to learn more. Over the last two years the Sanctuary for Kids Foundation donated funds towards the operation of Nepal Orphans Home's newest home in Dhapasi, Papa's Gumba (Sanctuary) House, and towards the education of the girls now residing there. In addition, the Sanctuary for Kids Foundation has contributed to the capital fund for the future campus of NOH.
Welcome to Papa’s House
Our Mission
Nepal Orphans Home attends to the welfare of children in Nepal who are orphaned, abandoned, or not supported by their parents. Papa’s House provides for the children’s basic needs of food, shelter, and clothing, as well as schooling and health care, and administers to their emotional needs with love and compassion. Papa’s House allows children to grow up in a nurturing environment. The mission of Nepal Orphans Home is not just to rescue children from abject poverty, but to enable the children to develop and realize their potentials.
Our Vision
Nepal Orphans Home envisions establishing a permanent campus in the Kathmandu valley. Currently all of our buildings and grounds are leased. We hope to purchase one to two hectares of property (roughly two to five acres) outside of Kathmandu city, where we will have our four Papa’s Houses that together could accommodate up to 200 children. Individual rooms in the homes will be equipped with bunk beds, desks, and lockers for several children. In each home will be a study hall equipped with personal computers and Internet connection. A common dining hall would serve all of the children. Read more
Our Story
Michael Hess found the orphanage in March 2005. This is the story of his discovery.
One fateful day many months ago I walked over the crest of a hill that I had found myself gazing upon nightly from my balcony. The crest was only a mile away, a 20-minute uphill walk. With each step I was leaving the hustle and noise of Kathmandu farther behind and entering a world of relaxed harmony, a quiet and serene landscape of individual small homes with gardens, and more chickens and goats than pedestrians, on the rocky dirt road snaking towards the top. There was a powerful
energy of goodwill emanating from the smiles of every person I would pass.
A friend of mine had found an orphanage another mile distant that she said needed some help, and she was anxious to take me there.
As we hiked I felt a tremendous sense of clarity, an awareness that I was in a moment of divine intervention; an unaccountable, quiet excitement started coursing through me that suggested something pretty remarkable was taking place in my life.
When we reached a miserable, abandoned-looking little house I couldn’t imagine anyone living there. “This is it,” my friend offered, and I was sure she was joking. It was still—not a sign of life in the midday heat—and so small. “Namaste!” my friend called out, and in moments we were engulfed by the kind and cheerful residents, some eager, some shy, as they poured out of the house led by “puppy,” the small house mascot and protector.
The spirit that came like a cloud around us was thick with love.
It seemed like a reunion had taken place when several hours later I waved goodbye. I felt that all of my life's work was in preparing me for this moment, and I am ready.
Read more about the discovery and renovation of the orphanage
Read about some of our children
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