Kapan kids and the Season of Giving
The KapKids.com project was launched last month to help a small group of orphans in Kapan, near Kathmandu in Nepal.
Now a Canadian mum wants to give a Kapan kid a homeOn Tuesday, November 20, we posted, ‘KapKids.com â $1,151.38 raised to date’.
Twelve days later, on December 2, it’s at —- $1,151.38.
Nothing is deducted for expenses of any kind. Nothing. Not one cent. So click the pic on the right to maked a donation, remembering all of it goes to the children, as Nisha Demers explained to CBC listeners in British Columbia when she was interviewed by Gregor Craigie for On The Island, last Monday.
It’s hard for people to put their hands in their pockets with so many charities and worthy causes looking for cash.
But this appeal is a little different than most.
It’s as much about trying to find homes for the children as it is about raising money for the orphanage, and to go towards building a permanent sanctuary for them when they leave it.
And with that in mind, we’ve heard from a mother in British Columbia with two daughters of her own who’s seriously interested in adopting one of the children.
She wants to remain anonymous for the time being, but she’s very serious about wanting to give one of the Kapan kids a decent home in Canada.
Nisha’s Song
What’s it like for a child to leave one will do for another?
Nisha was only 14-months-old when she was adopted by Lorraine Demers who
Nisha’s Song, a book about herf experiences. Including a music CD with a lullaby, it’s available online from the Trafford Publishing web page.
All royalties are going to the Kapan kids.
Thanks to Yuri and Giovanni over in Italy, we also have Spanish and Italian versions AND two separate WordPress blogs in Italian and Spanish.
Any old iron?
I (Jon) am originally from London, England, and years ago, rag’n’bone men, as they were known, would drive around the streets in horse-drawn wagons singing out, singing out, ‘Any old iron?’
People would give them scraps of metal and other things they didn’t want.
So we’re looking for anything YOU don’t want as a means of raising money for the KapKids.
Yuri has already contributed two boxes of rare Cuban cigars and we’re wondering if you have something which may produce a dollar or ten?
If you have, maybe you’d like to post it on eBay and donate the proceeds to the Kapan Kids.
It would raise badly needed $$$ and also introduce the kids to thousands of eBay users.
We’re going to auction Yuri’s cigars through KapKids and he’s promised to pay the shipping costs and if you have some item to contribute via eBay, hopefully, you be willing the same.
And do something else.
Are you someone famous and if you are, would you be willing to contribute something we can auction off here? Or maybe you know a celebrity you can ask for help?
Meanwhile, I’d just like to reiterate KapKids.com hasn’t been hitched to some cynical company with zero interest in helping kids, but with a 100% commitment to getting its name in front of the public, masquerading as a genuinely caring corporate citizen.
It’s a wholly compassionate effort started by Nisha, myself (Jon Newton – p2pnet) and Ernesto (Torrentfreak) who all believe caring means sharing, without reserve or reservation.
If you’d like to help and you don’t like PayPal, here’s a snail-mail address. Please make cheques or Postal Orders payable in Canadian funds to:
Nisha Demers
C/O KapKids.com
Lake Cowichan
British Columbia V0R 2G0, Canada.
Cheers! And thanks. And all the best …
Nisha, Jon and Ernesto
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