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SOS niños Nepal
p2pnet news | Freedom:- “Dear Nisha,” emails Palmo from Kathmandu in Nepal. “Oh!! I’m so happy to know that orphanes are going to get more help !!! I & Jigme went to Orphanage with Lhakpa, Dechen & Dolma. We bought Chicken 5kgs cost Rs 565, Potatoes with Rs 300 & fruit (mangoes) 6kgs cost 40 per kg = Rs 240 and spent total Rs 1105.”
‘Palmo’ is Palmo Tenzing. She’s married to ophthalmic paediatrician Samten Tenzing and the couple, with one young son, Jigme, live and work in Nepal.
She’s also the the Kapan end of the KapKids.com project started a week ago because 29 children live in terrible conditions in a hut with a constantly leaking roof in Kapan, not far from Kathmandu.
Please click the KapKids ad on the immediate right, or the ‘Help a Kapan kid have a nice day’ button at the bottom of the page, if you’d like to add $1 or so to the kitty, .
Back to the story, ‘Nisha’ is Nisha Demers, a former Nepali orphan who now lives permanently in Canada and who went to Kathmandu in January for a trekking holiday. Instead, she ended up donating her vacation funds to the kids.
The Child Orphanage, as it’s called, is home to 29 children aged four to 12, we posted when KapKids.com was launched.
“They eat, sleep play and do everything else in one tiny room with bamboo walls. The three beds they share also double as benches. The kids in Child Orphanage get a free education in a nearby school, but that’s where it ends.”
The Net is all about caring and sharing which is why the three of us from three different countries - Nisha, myself, Jon Newton, born in England but now a Canadian citizen, and Ernesto from Holland - have adopted the Kapan Kids.
The Net makes it possible for the KapKids.com project to be an international effort and as I (Jon Newton) write this at the end of Week 1 on the morning of October 28, 2007, Cyberspace citizens have contributed $868.25. And when this was posted 1,105 rupees - the cost of the food in the intro - was worth a touch more than $27 Canadian.
But this isn’t a one-off project. It has three prongs:
- To provide ongoing support of all kinds
- To create a permanent Kapan Resource Centre for the kids, who have to leave the Child Orphanage when they’re 12 and who then either end up on the streets or working
- To help each of these kids to find a caring, sharing home.
$1 isn’t mean much to you. But it’ll mean a heck of a lot to to the KapKids. And of course, any amount, large or small, will be gratefully received.
Spanish KaKids.com
And speaking of Europe, “My name is Yuri Diaz,” says Yuri, going on:
“I was born in Cuba, but now I am working in Italy.
“Yesterday I saw the Kapkids project on the Internet and I found your web site.
“I was moved and started thinking what could I do to help.
“Then I translated the content of Kapkid.com to Spanish which is my mother tongue and posted links to your web on my blogs:
http://senderodecompasion.blogspot.com/
http://vozdeurano.blogspot.com/
http://fotos-yudhiistira.blogspot.com/
“I also encouraged my friends to visit Kapkids.com and to host links on their web sites.
“In the attached file you can find the Spanish version of Kapkids.com. Considering that Spanish is one of the most diffused languages over the world, I think that including a Spanish version on your web could open the heart of many sensible people to the Kapkids project.
“I will also work on the Italian version of your web.
“Please keep working! You are doing a great thing!”
Thanks, Yuri 
Click here to check out Yuri’s Spanish KapKids.com.
Other people in other countries moved by the plight of the Kapan Kids might translate the page into their language.
Because of that really is what it’s all about. Caring and sharing.
You” find a donations button below. You know what to do. Feel free to grab it and host it on your site.
We’ll also be looking for other online ways for people to make a donation. If you have any ideas on that, please let us know. (We are NOT looking for corporate contributions with advertising strings attached.)
But not everyone likes online e-payments which, of course, also skim ‘X’ amounts off the top. So Gale Pepin, who manages the Lake Cowichan village post office, has organised a special KapKids.com snail-mail slot for anyone who wants to contribute, but who doesn’t like the idea of PayPal, etc.
If that’s you, please make cheques or Postal Orders payable in Canadian funds to:
Nisha Demers
C/O KapKids.com
Lake Cowichan
British Columbia V0R 2G0, Canada.
One more thing ..
Putting a roof over the kids’ heads and helping them live like human beings is fine, but more is needed and with that in mind, Nisha and I are hoping to go to Kapan in mid-November (when she has a break from university) so we can do detailed video profiles and text biographies for each kid, as well as a YouTube video on the orphanage and people who keep it going.
We think these will be invaluable as a way to reach people who may want to open their homes to one or more of the children.
They’ll be posted in a gallery on the site and p2pnet will feature each kid throughout the year, updating their histories whenever anything happens —- good or bad.
Neither Nisha nor I have enough money to make the trip and we don’t want to tap into donations for the orphanage. So if you know someone you think may be able to help us with that —- a travel agency or an airline, maybe? —- please ask them to get in touch.
We’re not fussy. We’ll go as freight baggage, if need be
Meanwhile, it’s still early days and although we have a lot of plans, including profiles of each Kapan orphan with stories explaining how they lost their parents, at this point we’re trying principally to get the word out.
If you have any ideas about what we can do to get the word out, and how to do it, we’d love to hear from you.
I’m working on a short video for YouTube and within the next couple of weeks, Nisha and I will hope to get a couple of things happening with the local media.
For now, communications can be difficult with frequent power outages, so we won’t be able to manage minute-by-minute updates. But we’ll tell you as much as we can, as often as we can.
Thanks. And stay tuned.
Nisha, Jon and Ernesto
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