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Reisavontuur: Orphans and Helpless Children Development Society Kathmandu
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| Avonturier(s): | Booz |
| Continent: | Azie |
| Land: | Nepal |
| Aanvang: | 27 Juni 2003 |
| Einde: | 27 Juni 2003 |
 hat started as a silly idea after a few
beers in Helena's Restaurant, nearly 2 weeks ago, has turned into a
massive operation due to all of your contributions. We managed to raise
a lot of money with the five of us and so our plan to only paint 1
orphanage has changed in the last 12 days into something else. We now
support 2 orphanages, 1 having 36 children and the other one having 49
children, all in the range from 1 month to 15 years. The past weeks we
made our headquarters in Thamel Kathmandu (Pumpernickel Bakery)
| our office |  | | Our office in thepumpernickel, making lists and have large discussions |
and every evening around 6 someone of our group is sitting there
collecting either clothes or books from tourists, things we can easily
change for children books and toys.
The day after we started collecting the money we already noticed that
we could easily raise money from friends and family so since that day,
we also discuss and argue a lot about what to do with the money. 1st
thing to do was to obtain lists from the orphanages with on there the
stuff they wanted to have themselves in order of priority. This sounds
very easy and shouldnt take to much time in Europe but the things are
different overhere, we got lots of lists, had discussions with the
chairmen of the orphanages, did a lot of talking between the 5 of us
and after visiting the orphanages and the children on a daily basis we
ended up with 2 lists; 1 for orphanage A and 1 for orphanage B. Then
the part of most difficulty came: look for prices for the things we
wanted to buy and how to arrange the transport, masters of discussion
in this part of the adventure were Jerry and Kerry, they are eachothers
biggest friends but argue about everything, you really should here them
they are very funny. This morning, very early, after a final visit to
the childrens homes, we started to divide the tasks for buying stuff. I
shall scan some of the lists we and the orphanages made so you can get
an expression how hard it is to come up with some definite lists. The
number of kids kept on changing, they said it were 42 kids and when we
counted it were 49 kids, they wanted things like underwear and clothing
and then we wanted to have the sizes of the kids, something they never
thought of. For example we wanted to buy them all a pair of sandals so
we needed footsizes, practical as people are overhere, they had the
kids lined up, and one by one they had to put their feet on a piece of
paper, so that the cahirman could make an outline in the notebook, we
had to go to buy 85 pair of sandals with drawings of childrenfeet, this
was really hillarious and everybody laughed their ass off. Anyway today
we found out that nearly everything worked out fine. The things we
bought today:
2 x 1000liter watertanks
4x 15liter waterfilters
85x sets of schoolbooks (for the next 2 years)
underwaear (inc. shirt/vest) for everyone
sandals for everyone
160 notebooks (math/writing)
pencil/pen/eraser/sharpener for everyone
4x football
4x badminton sets
4x cricketsets
matrasses for everyone
towels for everyone
toothbrus/toothpaste/soap for every one
mosquitonets for everyone
plates/glasses for everyone
wall paint (dif. colours)
and lots of little stuff they needed to fix up things in the orphanage.
I'll scan the full list of stuff we bought with the figures of costs
later on this week. But as you see we managed to raise a lot and tried
spending it in the right way, we are all no social workers nor did we
studied things like that, so we did all of the buying just by
intuition. I personally think we did a goo job and hope all of you will
feel the same about it. The least I can do is thank you all very much
for your donations, I can assure you that you made a lot of childrens
lives a little less complicated and more healthy for the next few
years. We found another woman here in Kathamndu who will monitor the
orphanages for the next 2 years, and I really wanna try keep on
collecting stuff for them, even when I am back in Holland next week.I
will update you soon again !
I already put some pictures online more will follow soon, go to:
http://gallery.reisavonturen.net/booz
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