Familyâs KapKids Christmas gift
It’s been a while since the last KapKids post. The Christmas holidays and normal daily activities got in the way.
But that doesn`t mean to say nothing`s been happening. There`s a committee working hard in the children`s interests, and Palmo continues to act as our primary contact with the children, the orphanage and people involved with it, and the word is spreading.
Jon Newton, here, and our daughter, Emma who, at 11, is about the same age as some of the children, is educated at home.
She spends a lot of time on a special site for home schooled kids and recently came across another girl, aged 13 this time, who`s a Nepali orphan adopted by a Canadian family and who also lives in British Columbia.
Most of us are lucky enough to have a proper meal every night, sleep in our own bed, and have enough money to take care of ourselves. Palmo and others work very hard caring for the children, but it is very hard to care for so many kids.
It`s true that they are getting help, but help is always needed. A dollar will not make a big difference to you, but it will for the KapKids.
On the right is Emma`s adaptation of a pic on an earlier post showing Palmo with the orphans.
Getting the message across
Nisha and I plan to try and generate a lot more media attention in 2008.
In 2007 Nisha was a guest on CBC`s The Island (we both live on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada) and among other responses, the interview with Gregor Craigie encouraged three people to contribute $700, of whom decided to use our snail-mail address.
PayPal is good for immediate transactions, but they take slice of the top which obviously becomes more substantial as the amount of a donation increases.
With that in mind, our snail-mail addie is really simple:
Nisha Demers
C/O KapKids.com
Lake Cowichan
British Columbia V0R 2G0, Canada.
And if you decide to go that route, please make your cheque payable to Nisha, who`ll passes it 100% untouched to the Kapan Kids fund in Nepal with nothing, zero, nada, taken off the top for expenses, or anything else.
Christmas Special
Back to the Christmas present, two of the cheques were fifty dollars each. And another was from Linda and her family, here in BC.
She and her husband have a daughter, 28, who in turn has a young son. They`d heard Nisha on the CBC show and just before Christmas, decided instead of buying Christmas gifts for each other, they`d pool the money and give it to the children at the Child Orphanage, as it`s called.
How much?
Five hundred dollars!
That should be what Christmas is all about. It was an amazing gift from Linda and her family.
But donations don`t have to be a lot of money. As Emma says above, A dollar will not make a big difference to you, but it will for the KapKids.
Everything helps and to add to the fund, we`ll be staging the auction we mentioned for the first time last year, which means getting items to go with the Cuban cigars already promised by Yuri, KapKids` Cuban editor.
Going to Nepal
We also heard from someone else who wants to help the kids.
Jesse Taylor who, by sheer coincidence also lives on Vancouver Island, came across the KapKids on p2pnet and emailed me.
He and some of his family are going to Nepal in May on a trekking holiday.
Which is how Nisha herself came across the kids.
She`s a Nepalese orphan adopted by Lorraine Demers in Duncan and she was on a trekking holiday in Nepal. A friend took Nisha t the orphanage, and she decided to give the rest of her holiday money to the children.
KapKids.com has grown from that effort.
Ernesto, who runs TorrentFreak from Holland, organised the domain name and hosting and together with p2pnet, were all trying to show sharing really does mean caring in a way which`ll benefit the Kap Kids./
Jesse will be stopping off in Kathmandu, during his trip and has promised to take gifts to the children and put together a report which we ultimately hope to be able to post on p2pnet, Torretnfreak and YouTube.
Definitely stay tuned.
Nisha, Jon and Ernesto
