Education Nepal Project #16938

Nepal Street Children's First Cricket Tournament

by Our Sansar

Project Report | Jan 16, 2015
Our first Christmas in our children's home

By Lucy Boxall | Project Leader

Christmas celebrations

Happy 2015 everyone - we hope your celebrations were as fun-filled as ours.

Over the Christmas holidays the boys were very busy with their artwork - making some fantastic festive pictures. What do you think of them? Perhaps we should make them into some charity christmas cards for next year?

We also enjoyed a lovely picnic to celebrate the New Year, although it was pretty chilly that didn't stop the fun and the hot food certainly helped!

What does the New Year hold for Our Sansar?

Thank you for your ongoing support, we want to make the 2015 the best year yet - getting the funds for healthcare and a dentist visit is the first step to this! We are already well on our way with plenty of sporting activities for the boys - check out a few of our photos - the boys had a special cricket lesson for Christmas!

We are welcoming new street children in to our home in Bigunj, Nepal, regularly which is a fantastic achievement, we also received a mention in the local newspaper last week! But, our resources will only go so far and with 100s of children living in poverty on the streets we need to do more. This year we hope to expand our services and be able to provide outreach support, helping with medical care and food for the children still living with no shelter.

In the meantime in our children's home...

Alongside the sporting activities and festive celebrations, we have all been giving a little back to the earth. We want to make the home self sustainable and have come a long way to achieving this with our own buffalo's for milk and chickens for eggs. This week the boys loved planting their own trees :-)

As always, a huge THANK YOU from the Our Sansar team and the boys in our children's home.

Christmas art

Christmas messages from the boys

As you can see, we went a bit drawing crazy :-)

Special holiday picnic to celebrate the new year

Christmas presents in cricket form!

Winter sports

Giving something back to the environment

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Oct 21, 2014
New skills for street children

By Lucy | Project Leader

Guitar classes with the boys

A big thank you from all of the boys in our children's home. Over the last few months, thanks to your ongoing support, our boys have been busy at school, and.... all of the extra opportunities we have been giving them with their own guitar teacher and IT teacher. Our wonderful volunteers have also been busy, over in Nepal, making documentaries and organising our next fundraiser in the UK!

Raina and Manisha journeyed to our children's home in Birgunj, Nepal and visited the boys

Within one month they raised over £2000 for Our Sansar and were on their way to our children's home. What they found was a happy home with children eager to learn - from guitar to maths at school.

Read all about their adventure here.

Have you seen our documentary?

Although Our Sansar has made considerable progress since the making of this video, one of our volunteers, Rob, visited Nepal last year and made this fantastic documentary about the educational barriers in the country that are still relevant now. Fortunately, since the making of this documentary we have now opened our first children's home and the boys living with us are off the streets and even attending a private school - to give them the best chance for the future!

See Rob's video here

Over in the UK.....

Fancy a night of hilarious comedy on behalf of Our Sansar?

We are delighted to present Comedy Rocks, an extravaganza of stand-up comedy. Featuring unique sets from fantastic comedians such as Simon Evans, Zoe Lyons, Marcel Lucont, Michael Fabbri and other great acts.

All proceeds will go towards supporting our much-needed children’s home in Birgunj, Nepal, which provides vital shelter and education to vulnerable street children.

3rd December, Brighton Komedia, England. Book your tickets here now!

We are always looking for dedicated and motivated volunteers - if you are interested in getting involved with our work - contact us now at oursansar@oursansar.org

Ready for school

Links:

Short documentary on Our Sansar

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Jul 21, 2014
Julia's trip to Nepal!

By Lucy Boxall | Project Leader

Thank you once again to all of our fantastic supporters, we have reached a number of the Our Sansar goals over this past year and it is all down to you. Our Children's Home in Birgunj, Nepal is going from strength to strength - we are making connections with local schools, communities, and businesses who are all instrumental in making this project work - and enabling us to continue the work we are doing, supporting street children to receive an education, and giving them a roof over their head (and the rest!) when they need it.

This is all down to you and the help you continually give us.....THANK YOU!

We have lots of exciting updates to bring you from Nepal…

Julia and Clint from Our Sansar HQ have been out visiting the boys in Our Sansar’s Children’s Home. They’ve been seeing how Kamal and the other boys are getting on and settling into the home – but also improving the home and ensuring all your generous donations go directly to the boys. It is very important to us that all of the funds we raise go directly, and only to those that really need it, the street children we are aiming to protect and support.

As children who have spent a lot of time either living on the streets or coming from homes that could barely afford to feed them – the boys have all had very little chance to enjoy the ‘normal’ treats we often take for granted.

So…. Julia and Clint made it their mission to make this the best summer they have ever had! Starting with a few treats shipped over from our HQ in England....

One of the boy’s favourite treats was their first EVER dip into a swimming pool:

As you can imagine there was quite a splash! :-)

The house now also has a musical instrument for the boys to practice on - a GUITAR!

The boys loved it, and have been carrying it all around the house playing. Clint gave them a few quick lessons (which they very kindly then tried to teach to Julia, we are expecting to be treated to a solo performance shortly :-) ).

Bubbles have, of course, been a HUGE hit

Julia has been telling us all; “The children are amazing, very sweet, playful, polite and really keen to study and gain knowledge.”

Stay tuned and we'll be bringing you more updates from Nepal soon.... why not head over to our Twitter page for all the latest news.

And of course, if you are keen to get involved in what we do, hear more about our projects and future plans, just drop us an email - we are always keen to hear from you!!!

Links:

Our Sansar website

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