The festival of Dashain-Tihar has come early this year. The schools close for 3/4 weeks from today. Many of our children will be returning to their rural villages for Dashain with the older generations. KIKN had its best turn out to date. It was good to see the children and their mums and a couple
Made a scheduled visit today to see the projects which KIKN started last year. A German charity has continued to help, building extra classrooms for the school. The kindergarten is now housed there. The Computer room is in full swing with attendant pupils. The delightful nursery children are enjoying the furnished rooms which KIKN helps
With good house keeping, KIKN was able to buy groceries for the 30 families whose children go begging each day. 15 kilos of rice, 2 litres of cooking oil and 2 kilos of red lentils were packaged for each family. Mothers came to collect them at the school. It was chaotic for an hour or
Tracksuits made up, underclothes sourced, jerseys bought, for all our 40 + sponsored children. Uma did well with the list, remembering the permutation of sizes, preferred colours, trends and styles. I am just grateful that I am merely the cashier. I hand over the money once the bartering is done successfully by Uma. The roads
This little school sits in the most deprived area in Kathmandu. It is also KIKN’s poorest to date. It has 80 pupils and 8 teachers, a good ratio of teachers to pupils. Within the pupil population, 32 children beg in the street before and after school. A local youth worker has managed to work with
First visit to Neel Barahi School today. Met up with Januka Nepal, the Principal. Much has been achieved by the school. There are now over 1100 pupils with over 300 in the 6th form. 5 years ago it was 600+ pupils with 8 6th formers. The Science lab KIKN / FFK helped to set up