Aasika with her Sponsor's letter

Visiting Children

Yesterday we visited children at the stone quarry.  Unfortunately they have had to move their home as a college has been built on the land.  Construction is going on all around them and the quarry is becoming smaller and smaller.  So the future does not look good for them.
We had a large shipment of clothes from our donors in Qatar, mostly school uniforms that were brand new  so yesterday we gave some of these out to the children along with letters from sponsors.
we also visited Ramila and Ranjita at the tea shop.  They also have had to move because of road widening which demolished their last shop.  Kathmandu looks like a war zone.  The roads are all rubble and the front of buildings just torn away.  So many people displaced, it is very sad.
Yesterday we had another sponsor visit our office from Qatar.  We also took him to visit Sima's small children's home as funds from Qatar have helped fund this home.  Today they are travelling to Pokhara to visit their sponsored child.  Also tonight Lori and Jay and their daughter arrive from Duncan.  Lots of sponsors visiting which is very good.
Photos Howard from Qatar, Mann, Bob and I.  Juni reading her sponsor's letter with Sanija looking on.  Red shirts and hats from Qatar.

Arrived in Nepal

We arrived in Nepal last night after a holiday in China.

Today we met Johnny and Leonard from Qatar.  Johnny is the son of our sponsors Carol and Keith in Qatar.  Yesterday Mann took them to visit some of the children that their parents sponsor and they told me that they really enjoyed this experience.  Today we took them to another family where they sponsor a boy.  He had gone to visit his village as it is the Dashain festival here.  They were able to visit with the mother and two of the siblings Pradip and Parmila who are also sponsored through NEF.  This family has been sponsored for eight years and was one of our first families.  Pradip is in college now.

Fundraiser for Kristy school

A fundraiser by friends on October 10th for the Kristy school project raised $3,300.. We are very happy with this success.  This will supply more building supplies for the school construction.  Our friends will join us in Nepal in a couple of weeks and will visit the school and present the money.  Photos will follow. many thanks to them.
I am on route to Nepal and will post all news here.

Successful Marathon

I ran the Skagit Flats Marathon on September 9th and completed it in 4 hours 55 mins.  It was a very windy day and the sky seemed low with black clouds which made the race lonely at times as it was small in numbers.  The wind whipped up a lot of dust clouds to run through but I felt good throughout the race.   I raised over $4,328.20 with the running of this marathon so it made it all very worthwhile.
I would like to thank everyone who supported me and made this possible.  This amount of money goes towards the operating expenses of NEF.
Along with our other two fundraisers, the sale of fall bulbs and the garage sale, we have enough for the administration costs for this year.  This is a big relief to me.  Anything over this will go towards one of our school projects.

With medal and 2nd place in age div award

Singapore sponsors visit their Sponsored Child

Earlier this month sponsors, Daniel and Ronnie from Singapore, visited their sponsored child, Bilisha.
They only started sponsoring Bilisha last April but have been exchanging letters and were very anxious to meet her and her family.  Mann met them at the airport and took them to the family and her school.  Daniel and Ronnie enjoyed their visit with Bilisha and took her and her family out for dinner.  They also visited our office and Sima's small children's home.  Sima is Mann's wife.

Daniel tells me that they very much enjoyed the visit and sent these photos.  Thank you for being such great sponsors to Bilisha.

Marathon Fundraiser

I am training for the Salmon River Marathon in Idaho to raise funds for NEF.  The training is tough but has gone well but the fundraising has been slow.  Hopefully in the next month we can get some sponsors for this event.  If you would like to contribute please email me at nepeducation@gmail.com

Our bulb fundraiser raised $885.50.  Thanks to all who sold and bought bulbs.  I think this was a good result and that we should try it again next year.

The money from both these fundraisers will go towards our administration costs which have to be met if we are to keep the charity alive.