Registered with National Child Rights Council/District Child Welfare Committee- Kavrepalanchwok; Registration Letter-2075/76, Dispatch No. 05.

 

WELCOME TO OUR ECO HOME!

Who are we?

Nearly 2 million children were affected by the April 2015 earthquake in Nepal, which has left 320,000 children homeless. Each year hundreds of children in rural villages of Nepal are discarded by their own families, either because their parents abandoned them out of domestic conflict, suicide or the family is economically not sound. 34% of Nepalese children are involved in some type of child labor ranging from agricultural work to commercial sexual exploitation. This is a serious problem, which has shown its ugly side, as we see an alarming rise in street children, begging for food and survival in the busy streets of Kathmandu or end up being trafficked to work as sex workers across the borders into Indian brothels.

Seeing the injustice, the plight of these helpless children, we at Mission Himalaya, have teamed up, to start this dream project. A safe haven for orphaned children, who have been neglected and discarded by the society. To provide a loving home, where we help nurture these children into becoming loving adults who will in return be useful citizens. Even though we are a small not-for-profit organization, we have taken a pledge to help the rural communities of Nepal. Our mission is to reach out to as many rural areas as possible, identify the locals’ needs, and help with basic Healthcare, Education and Livelihood sustenance.

 

What do we do?

We save children mostly from impoverished and economically challenged backgrounds from being neglected, and provide them with the best education possible, under a warm and nurturing, homely environment. Almost all of our kids are orphans, who have each suffered a heartbreaking past, with no one to take care of them. We also protect children without single parents who are in high risks of domestic violence, abandonment, child labor and sexual exploitation from their own relatives, neighbors and immediate guardians as well as being deprived of getting proper care, food, accommodation, health and education facilities due to the weak economic condition. We at Mission Himalaya, have taken an initiative to help give these desolate children proper care and education.

We are Nepal’s first-of-its-kind self sustaining, and Eco-friendly orphanage home for children without parents and underprivileged children, where we are providing proper care, nutrition, education, accommodation and healthcare services to them where they grown by learning moral values and social responsibilities. We have 19 boys and 13 girls currently in our Eco Home between the age of 8~9 yrs to 17 years.

They study in a private boarding school “Namo Buddha English Secondary School” situated at Dhulikhel Municipality. The distance from the home to school is just about 5 minutes walk from Eco Home. We have children studying from class 1 to class 12. To-date nine of our children have passed out from Eco Home  and re-integrated to their immediate families after completing  school level studies and pursuing higher education in colleges. Our five senior children are getting higher education in different subjects of their choices in two different private colleges of Banepa city, living in Eco Home. 

We have an experienced and trusted matron, a teacher cum in-charge of the Eco Home, a good cook, two caring assistant caregivers and one reliable security guard cum gardener and caretaker of the farms working at the Eco Home and Farm. Our Employees are dedicated to take very special care of the children professionally and lovingly and they are very well experienced in their duties. 

We are focusing in our children’s physical and mental development by encouraging them to participate in sports and other activities. We have a play area including a jungle gym for the juniors. A basketball court and table tennis area for the seniors to give them better exposure in sports. They enjoy playing basketball, football, badminton and table tennis. We have dance and music classes at the home. Besides, we keeps organizing different extra curricular activities within in the home and they are also involve in different sports and other activities at the school. We have a small computer lab and library at the home.

There is a ‘Happy Shepherd’s Cottage’ volunteer house having three cozy bedrooms with attached bathrooms and 24 hours hot water facility, one small kitchen and dining/living room, a balcony with a beautiful view of nearby village and fields within the compound of our Eco Home where  accommodate our valuable volunteers, guests and donors who want to spend their time with the children.

Eco Home currently owns approximately 52,000 square feet of land including the building and structures. We grow organic green vegetables which are consumed by the children and caretakers of the Eco Home and Farm.  We grow potatoes, spinach, garlic, onion, cauliflower, capsicum, cabbage, brinjal, tomatoes etc in our field. We are also doing goat and chicken farming in our adjacent farming land to support the demand of eggs and meats consumption of the home. 

We have children from different regions, castes, ethnicity, family backgrounds and past histories. We wish to see all of them grow up with good educational background learning social values and moral lessons. We treat all our children equally and do not discriminate them on any basis. They love each other, enjoy playing together and spend beautiful moments together creating beautiful memories dreaming for the future. We always wish to see them smiling and happy!

Our Vision!

Nurture – Grow – Giveback 

Nuture
Children need the love of a home, a family, and that is how we want to bring up all of our orphans, with Nurture and care.

Grow
We also teach our children, to spread the love, we teach them on how to help each other on simple day to day stuffs like- with homework, Cleanliness, discipline, creative thinking, artwork, entertainment

Giveback
Our loving caretakers, grow Organic food right at our backyard and all extra produce and sold in veggie market, and the profit used in the welfare of the kids!

 

The site location and the Eco home

The Eco home is situated in a beautiful lush-green farming valley of Sankhu situated some 35 kilometres east of Kathmandu City and 3 kilometres further east beyond the beautiful ancient medieval town of Panauti. The reasons we have chosen this location is because of the unhealthy and over-populated environment of Kathmandu. We wanted our kids to grow up in a green and clean-carbon dioxide emission free surrounding. The Eco home sits in a greener and a more serene location, where fresh water supply is plenty (which is very difficult to be found within Kathmandu).

We are an ever expanding family and are constantly in need of help from generous donors to help Educate and feed our children.

Donate and Help Bring a Smile on a child’s face!

  Help By funding any of our Future Plans:

1. Help Sponsor our kid’s Education annually (US$ 1,000/- per year for Nursery to Class 10) and (US$1,500/-Per Year for Class 11, 12 and Bachelors)  – To cover up child’s annual school fee (Monthly tuition fee/practical fees of science lab, computer, library/sports and E/CCA activities, transportation fee etc), School and College’s uniforms, books and stationery, medical treatment and insurance, school lunch etc.

2. Solar Water Heating System-  To solve the problem of enough hot water supply for shower and washing purposes.

3. Greenhouse tunnels installation – To support in increasing production of organic green vegetables to be consumed at the home by the children and caretakers.

4. Solar powered electricity backup system installation- To solve the problem of regular power cut offs and fluctuations.

5. Goat Shed- We wish to expand our goat farming project into larger scale to support the operation of Eco Home with the income generation.

6. Cottage industries- Panauti valley is famous for potato farming. We can run a potato chips production unit within our Eco Home’s compound whose profit shall go towards the welfare of the home and the children.

Please contact us in missionhimalaya.media@gmail.com for the support and further information.

                                                      OR

Come Volunteer at our Eco Home and be a part of the Family
Help Nurture, Grow and Giveback!