Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Finding Namaste

Our trip to Nepal was an amazing adventure!
The highlight was our time spent volunteering at the Namaste Children’s Home in Pokhara, Nepal.

While volunteering at the orphanage we helped the children with homework, getting ready for school, cleaning at the orphanage, playing games and providing entertainment, (and being entertained by them) They shared their meals with us, performed plays, sang and danced with us.

These are children who have been abused and abandoned, left alone to beg in the streets with no family who are able or willing to care for them. Yet they thought nothing of inviting us into their home and their hearts sharing their lives for a brief time.

Leaving the orphanage we knew we needed to do something more for our new Nepalese family. But what can we do from New York?

That’s when Namaste Fund for Children was born. Our foremost objective is to assist the Namaste Children’s Home in fulfilling their goal to support the women and children of Nepal. Our first project is READ NEPAL!

`Thank you,
Donna and Harrison