KapKids project shuts down
p2pnet news view | P2P:- I’m very sorry to report the KapKids project has been stopped and kapkids.com taken offline.
Regular p2pnet readers will recall Nisha Demers, Ernesto from TorrentFreak over in Holland, and I launched kapkids.com, a website to help kids in an orphanage in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Nisha is herself a Nepalese orphan who was lucky enough to be adopted as a tiny baby by Lorraine Demers here on Vancouver Island in Canada, where she’s been living ever since.
She saw the orphanage when she was on a trekking trip to Nepal and decided to abandon her holiday and use the money to help the children.
” ‘Palmo’ is Palmo Tenzing (right),” I posted at the time, going on, “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,” started because 29 children live in terrible conditions in a hut with a constantly leaking roof in Kapan, not far from Kathmandu.
It’s been quite some time since we did an update and I called Nisha who told me she’d just learned the children had been found begging in the streets.
However, since then I’ve learned Maiya and Rajendra, the husband and wife who were supposedly looking after the children, are now in jail and the children have been successfully rehoused in other orphanages.
You’re probably wondering if the money raised went straight into Maiya and Rajendra’s pockets. But no worries. Palmo, as well as Lhapka and Dolma, two more of Nisha’s friends, were buying supplies and delivering them by hand to the kids.
At this point, I don’t know exactly how much money remains, but whatever the amount, it’ll be going to a trusted and worthy charity run by Susan Marshall, who helped start and run an orphanage in Nepal called ‘Save Blessing Child Home’.”
Susan also runs the Nepal Education Fund, an education program for less fortunate children in Nepal, says Nisha.
I’ll keep you posted if there are any further developments, and in the meanwhile, thanks to everyone who dipped into their pockets to help these children.
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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September 13th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
This is the real face of humanity, well done to the folks who have been decent enough to make a difference, something many strive to do but never take the leap of faith in their fellows.
Thanks Jon for this news.