MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Dear
: Friends
Greetings
to you from your big family in Nepal with HFN.
I hope you are well. Mariya, all
the children and myself would like to wish you a wonderful Christmas and a
happy New Year.
We
have decided to write a newsletter to update you on our past year, as for some
of you it will have been some time since you last visited.
This
year we have had 15 volunteers come and stay with us. They have all been great and we have enjoyed
getting to know them all. They have come
from Australia, France, Germany, Switzerland, U.S.A and the UK. Previously, we have also have also had
volunteers from Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Macedonia, China, Japan,
Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada, New
Zealand, Portugal, Italia and the
Netherlands.
We
are so grateful to how people from all around the world have come together in
our home and have given up their time, shared their talents and resources for a
good and worthwhile cause. Your
financial generosity has been such a help and blessing to us. Without this, the orphanage would not be
sustainable and the children would have remained in very different
circumstances. They would also not have
the opportunities they currently have.
It has also helped us enable a few local children in our community to
buy stationery and be able to go to school.
In
April this year, 10 year old Roshan from Chitwan joined us. Sadly, his mother who worked as a labourer,
died due to an illness. This left Roshan
in the care of his ill father who is unable to work due to kidney
problems. Unable to go to school, Roshan
started hanging out with street children until, thankfully, someone in the
neighbourhood contacted My sister from Chitwan. Roshan has settled in well and is
working hard at school.
Madan
is now 18 and lives with his step-sister and family about 5km away. He visits once a week and sometimes comes to
stay. He has completed his 2 years of
various subjects at Higher Education level, during which Computer Science was
his main focus. He went on to do a 3
month Korean language course but ultimately would love to pursue I.T. at
University level.
Madan’s
younger brother, Sujan, is with 15 now the oldest in the home.
He
is in his final year at Secondary school and takes his exams in February, after
which he has to wait for 6 months for his results!
All
the other children are well and working hard at the local Active Academy school
where, apart from Nepali, all their
lessons are taught in English.
Two
years ago, Demisha moved from the Montessori nursery school to the Elim Kids
Academy. Dan is also now in uniform and
has been going to the same school for the past year.
Since
September, Mariya has been working for a small finance company. This involves walking from Thamel back to
Dhapasi collecting money from shops along the way.
That
just leaves us to thank you once again for your support and friendship. We hope you have a joyful Christmas with your
family/friends and wish you the very best for 2015.
With
love and warm wishes,
David,
Maria and all the children
This is the best Christmas gift you could give anyone. 
