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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
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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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