Sewing Project at SBCH

Madhu and Mina in their newly made clothes

These are the latest creations from the sewing group at SBCH. This project continues to be very successful and the children not only love it but it has given them a lot of self esteem. Kamal buys a bolt of fabric at a time and as they improves he buys better quality.

Samjhana Recovering after Surgery

Samjhana, Kamal's wife at SBCH, is recovering in hospital after major surgery yesterday to remove a large tumour from an ovary. Hopefully everything will go well. We have all been very worried about her. Baby Milan is having a hard time without her and is not wanting to feed from a bottle. I will keep you posted as to her progress.

Garage Sale

We have changed the date of the garage sale to June 16th. Monica and I are both away on the weekend of June 2nd so would not be around to sort and pick things up. This gives us more time. If no one is at home when you call please do leave a message.

Our Children in Pokhara

Kamal has just returned from Pokhara where he was registering children and buying their books. He has just sent these photos. I did not realize we had so many children here but it really made me feel good to see them all in these photos so I wish to share them with you.

Address for Correspondence

I have had a lot of requests for an address for sponsors to write to their children. You can send any mail to the following address and it will be delived from there. Just put your envelope with the child's full name on it into another with this address on it. Remember that mail to and from Nepal can be very slow with letters taking up to three weeks to arrive.

Save Blessing Child's Home
G.P.O. Box 8975, E.P.C. 1093
Tutepani, Lalitpur
Nepal

Fundraiser - Garage Sale

We will be having our garage sale again this year on June 16th. Any local sponsors who have anything they would like to donate please call me at 746-0249 or 746-8936. We are quite willing to pick anything up that you cannot drop off. Drop off is at 6718 Beaumont Ave. Maple Bay.
Monica has very generously offered her driveway for the sale again. Last year we raised $2000 which was excellent and we were able to do some special projects with this money and also have some as a back up fund which we had never had before.

Back home in Canada

I returned home to Canada last Monday evening after spending five days in England on route.
All in all it has been a good three months with a lot accomplished in Nepal. Highlights were: the move to the new residence for the orphanage, the sewing project and the buying of the tea shop for the newly widowed lady and her family and paying the medical fees for the burned lady. These things were very successful. There were also all the new matches of sponsors and children. It was a busy time with good results.

Unfortunately I had trouble with photos. First back at the end of January I accidently deleted all my photos and we had to retake. The the day before I left Kathmandu I left my camera in a taxi which had almost 500 photos on it. I had tried to have them burned to a CD the previous day but the computers were down. All my friends tried all avenues to recover the camera but of course in a city of thousands of taxi cabs it was impossible. There were a lot of sponsors photos on there. Kamal and Jagat will retake but it will take some time. Some of the photos are irreplaceable. I am sorry about this but I feel terrible about it, so much work wasted.
Please be patient and you will get your photos but it may take some weeks. I have all the earlier ones that were taken but not the ones from the last month and some may be missing from the first lot that I deleted. Eventually all will be retaken.

Thank you for all your sponsorship renewals the families and children really appreciate it and thank you to all the new sponsors.

Susan