INDIA, NEPAL and TIBET

PASTOR NAG AND SOME OF THE ORPHANS AT INDIA OUTREACH MINISTRIES

Ours is a non-profit Christian outreach ministry reaching the unreached with the gospel of Jesus Christ and planting churches in the remote, rural and tribal area of Orissa state in India. We are located in the eastern pat of India near to the Sea BAY OF BENGAL. We are engaged in evangelism, church planting and children's ministry. The picture shows orphans, semi orphans and destitute children who are lack of food, clothes, medicine and shelter. These are starving children and need proper loving care.

I have burdened to care for these children by giving food, clothes, medicine, education and shelter with all round development. I request anyone to please sponsor these children for the glory of God. Each of the 29 children needs $30 per month which will cover their all needs. If you need more information, please feel free to send me e-mail or contact me by my cell phone.No:0091 943 917 3557

I look forward for your kind consideration. Thank you.

Pastor Nag, Founder
ODISA CHILDREN'S HOME & ORISSA EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP
Post Box 25
Senapati Street
Nabarangpur -764059
Orissa State, India
Cell:0091 943 917 3557

Email indiaoutreachministries@gmail.com

CHRISTIAN ACTION FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT

By Pastor Ruben Garlapati

My ministry is mainly based on Gospel work. I have my co-workers, evangelists and pastors. I have 15 congregations in various villages. Our work is to reach unreached areas. Most generally tribal and rural areas. Our motto is spread the Gospel where it is not proclaimed. We go through forests, deserts and on waters. Frequently we face bitter experience such as starvations, nature calamities and mishaps. Every time we are anxious and worried, but hopeful to reach our goal. Most of us visit these villages on foot only. In villages we have no church constructions. So we gather in verandahs and in the corner of the roadsides at night.

In addition to Gospel work we have social welfare activities such as orphanage and old age widowed women care center. We are doing these works by the vision of God. To go ahead we are carrying all these works by faith and self commitment only, while having not any local donations or help. We are struggling a lot and after we are undergoing with fasting. We have been praying for a godly leader to lead us in all through our works. Now the Lord showed you as our benefactor. [This refers to myself, Julian Hancock, as the webmaster of this website.] Praise the lord.

OUR VISION

In addition to the above mentioned, I was greatly inspired to go along to the plantations where there is no availability of church. I am enthusiastic to establish schools in those villages where the poor children are just roaming in the streets as a result of being neglected by the parents. There we have established day care centers, free medical camps to provide drugs to the poor sick people, self help schemes and vocational training like tailoring and basket making. We also plant Bible school to makes God’s victims army strong. We are constantly praying for the above plans to succeed by the everlasting compassion of our Lord, and strengthen us to go more deeply in His service.

As I am still a novice regarding spiritual service, I am confidently going on with His Divine great love and faith. I am continuing my services enduring all the crosses that I face in my way to reach the kingdom of Our Father. Mostly I desire to work with your ministry under your leadership and your banner. Please visit us once to see our work. We earnestly pray to God to bring you our way. Please share about us with your church and co-workers and request them on our behalf to uphold us in their regular prayers.

Kindly remember us and our works of our lord in your prayers and encourage us all by your love and affections. You may be prosperously led with all things sufficiently to carry up the service of the Lord, we are most curious to hear your news . My family, orphan kids and co-workers are sending their heartfelt regards to you, your family and who are there with you. We are hopefully waiting for your kind gratitude.

With Love,
Your Brother, Pastor Rueben.

Email: gladis04@gmail.com

[Please note: I have partially edited this statement by Pastor Ruben to make it more grammatically correct, but essentially I have left it in its original state. I cannot edit out his dedication to his work which is uniquely expressed in his own terms.]

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Peter, aged 12, "would have been languishing in child labor"

GOOD NEWS MESSENGERS -- ORPHANAGES IN INDIA

"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." [James 1:27]

GOOD NEWS MESSENGERS MINISTRIES

established “House Of Hope” for orphan children and destitute women in India. Many poor and abandoned children and destitute women are given shelter and taken care of by GNM.

There is need to establish such Help Centres in other areas also. Presently we have orphanages in Guntur and Anantapur. We need land to construct permanent buildings for these orphanages. Please pray.

Apart from gospel work GNM is extending support for orphans, destitute and old people with the objective of love for mankind as preached by our Lord Jesus Christ. Founded in 2,000, the orphanages at present are providing a stable, caring home for 50 children who have been orphaned, abandoned, or left in our care by desperate parents. We are admitting children from the age of 3 years.

[Picture shows Neelima, aged 14 years. But for GNM, she would have become a sex worker She is totally an orphan. Her father murdered her mother, later when he was out of prison on bail he too was killed in an accident. When she was stranded alone on the road there was a danger of her being frisked away by the hooligan for flesh trade. At that time she was miraculously rescued and admitted to the House of Hope.

Peter's previous name was Kotesh. He was a Hindu. Now his new name is Peter. His mother is a very poor widow and she wanted to make him work in child labor. He might have ended up even in bonded labour. We have rescued him and now he is going to school and having a decent living in the House of Hope. Even his younger brother is taken care in the House of Hope]

The children are encouraged to stay until they complete their education and training, and have achieved independence and a job. So our community ranges from 3 years to 20 years. Children in the orphanage attend schools outside the orphanage (we have children in as many as three schools) so that their upbringing is as normal as it can be to enter the main stream education, and they are fully integrated into Indian society.

At the House of Hope Orphanage we give the orphans physical, intellectual and emotional care, thereby helping them to aim for the right things in life and become good citizens of this country. Our dream is to make these rejected and despised children realise their self worth and a meaningful purpose in their lives. To that end, we direct our efforts. We would also like you to be involved in developing and strengthening the lives of these precious children by extending your financial support.

There are many more children looking for admission into the orphanage, but due to lack of necessary finances we are not able to admit them. Even the existing children are being taken care of by raising donations to cover the expenditure of the orphanage partially. Good News Messengers provides shelter for many poor and abandoned street children and they are being taken care of.

Visit the website: GOOD NEWS MESSENGERS – ORPHAN HOMES

HIGH PREVALENCE IN INDIA OF UNDERNOURISHED CHILDREN

India’s Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) needs to undergo significant changes to address the current malnutrition crisis in India, according to a new World Bank report.

The prevalence of underweight children in India is among the highest in the world, and is nearly double that of Sub-Saharan Africa, the report says. It also observes that malnutrition in India is a concentrated phenomenon.

A relatively small number of states, districts, and villages account for a large share of the burden -- 5 states and 50 percent of villages account for about 80 percent of the malnutrition cases.

The report -- India’s Undernourished Children: a Call for Reform and Action -- analyzes the effectiveness of the ICDS program in overcoming malnutrition, and proposes several reforms of the program.

"The need to re-examine the functioning of ICDS is an urgent one," said Meera Shekar, World Bank Senior Nutrition Specialist and co-author of the report. "The prevalence of underweight among children in India is among the highest in the world, and most children suffer from at least one micronutrient deficiency."

In addition to its consequences for morbidity, mortality and cognitive development, malnutrition of this magnitude has severe long-term impact for individual educational achievement, labor productivity and for economic growth. The report finds that the ICDS program, in general, appears to be well-designed and well-placed to address the multidimensional causes of malnutrition in India. However, there are three main "mismatches" between the program’s design and its actual implementation that prevent it from reaching its potential:

1. There is a dominant focus on food supplementation that detracts from aspects of the program that are more crucial for improving child nutritional outcomes, such as improving mothers’ feeding and caring behavior. For example, only 40 percent of Indian mothers practice exclusive breastfeeding.

2. Service delivery is not sufficiently focused on the youngest children (under three), who could potentially benefit most from ICDS interventions. Growth-faltering starts during pregnancy, such that approximately 30 percent of children in India are born with low birth weight, and by the age of two years most lifetime growth retardation has taken place, and is largely irreversible.

3. States with the highest levels of malnutrition have the lowest levels of ICDS program funding and a smaller percentage of their villages covered by ICDS centers than states with less malnutrition. The five states with the highest underweight prevalence, namely Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh, all rank in the bottom ten in terms of ICDS coverage.

Reductions in the prevalence of malnutrition over the last decade have been small – the prevalence of underweight has only fallen from 53 percent to 47 percent between 1992/93 and 1998/99

Child malnutrition is a leading cause of child and adult morbidity, mortality, cognitive and motor development. Estimated to play a role in about 50 percent of all child deaths, and more than half of child deaths from malaria (57 percent), diarrhea (61 percent) and pneumonia (52 percent). Overall, child malnutrition is a risk factor for 22.4 percent of India’s total burden of disease

In India, child malnutrition is mostly the result of high levels of exposure to infection and inappropriate infant and young child feeding and caring practices, and has its origins almost entirely during the first two to three years of life. However, the commonly-held assumption is that food insecurity is the primary or even sole cause of malnutrition. Consequently, the existing response to malnutrition in India has been skewed towards food-based interventions and has placed little emphasis on schemes addressing the other determinants of malnutrition.

Urgent reforms needed to address malnutrition in India:

1. Set clear priority for the different objectives and interventions of the ICDS program.

2. Refocus ICDS on the most important determinants of malnutrition. This means emphasizing disease control and prevention activities, education to improve domestic child-care and feeding practices, and micronutrient supplementation. Greater convergence with the health sector, and in particular the Reproductive and Child Health program, would help tremendously in this regard.

3. Increase participation of the most vulnerable groups, especially children under three and pregnant and assure that new funds and new ICDS projects are directed towards states, districts and villages with the highest prevalence of malnutrition.

4. Involve communities in the implementation and monitoring of ICDS to bring additional resources into the anganwadi centers, improve quality of service delivery and increase accountability in the system.

Overcoming these mismatches will not be easy, the report says.

"Bridging the gap between the policy intentions of ICDS and its actual implementation is one of the biggest challenges in international nutrition, with large fiscal and institutional implications," said Michele Gragnolati, World Bank Senior Economist and lead author of the report. "But it can have a huge positive long-term impact on human development and economic growth in India."

To this end, the report considers a number of options that can be taken to improve the effectiveness of ICDS.

Contact:
In Delhi: Kiran Negi (91 11) 2461-7241 e-mail: knegi@worldbank.org

In Washington: Erik Nora (202) 458-4735 e-mail: enora@worldbank.org

For more information on the World Bank’s support of ICDS and other nutrition-related activities, please visit WORLD BANK – NUTRITION

ORPHANS IN NEED

At The Orphans in Need project we are a team of dedicated people, setting out to build an orphanage to help orphans living in the Asian Subcontinent region of Gujarat. Our plan initially is to accommodate 140 of the most disadvantaged and lonely children. These children are desperately in need of a chance.

We aim to protect and restore their basic rights as human beings. Ultimately to bring about a lasting enrichment of their situation, by means of improving access to reasonable basic humanitarian living, health care and education. We aim also, to provide opportunities for those children to develop their potential and to learn skills which will enable them to become self-sufficient, giving them a brighter future and paving the path for a peaceful society.

Violence erupted in Gujarat in February 2002, when 59 people were killed in an attack on a train. In the days that followed, thousands of people, most of whom were Muslim, were targeted in widespread violence. Local human rights groups believe that as many as 2000 people were killed. Many tens of thousands of others remain internally displaced, fearing to return to their homes. [Amnesty International PRESS RELEASE (News Flash; 24 September 2002)]

It is our vision that the lives of all children and young people should be free from the blight of poverty, abuse and discrimination. Our purpose is to help the most vulnerable children and young people transform their lives and fulfil their potential.

WHY GUJARAT?

"Earthquake destroys Gujarat in 30 seconds."

Many of us will never have experienced an earthquake, certainly not on the scale of Gujarat. During an earthquake the ground will shake violently, with the potential to destroy lives, buildings and cause landslides and fires. In less developed countries, the risk of disease and infection is very high.

A massive earthquake rocked India and neighbouring areas on the morning of 26th January 2001. The worst hit area was the State of Gujarat, with the overall death toll now believed to have reached 30,000, although the exact figure may never be known.

* More than 30,000 killed
* 125,000 still missing
* Schools, hospitals, mosques, temples, roads, transport and communication completely destroyed
* No water, food, medicine, shelter, electricity or fuels
* Over half a million (mainly children) homeless

CHILDREN’S QUAKE NIGHTMARES

Children were arriving for medical treatment with chronic symptoms -- diarrhoea, respiratory problems, infections, all are related to homelessness and bad living conditions. Local paediatrician Dr Shantu Patel set up a crisis centre for children's health. She has already seen evidence of psychological suffering.

"Children are getting up and won't sleep under a sheet," she said. "Even then they're not sleeping in the tent. They want to go into the open.”
"So, I think they feel claustrophobic. They're not going to stay in a closed space. The fear that something's going to fall on them.”
"They are getting up with nightmares and won't go back to sleep.”
"I have seen people and children who have lost immense weight. I couldn't recognise some of my patients."
“In small children, hysterical laughter can sound very close to crying.”

On the surface children seemed very resilient, but as the shattered society starts the slow task of recovery it may be the children who bear some of the worst scars.

Visit the website: ORPHANS IN NEED

The 6.9 Richter Earthquake Which Struck India On January 26, 2001

Some officials of Karuna Charities Inc.

The new millennium has dawned, bringing with it renewed hope for a world with less strife, suffering, and hunger. For Karuna Charities, it is yet another opportunity to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate in India, The U.S., and many other parts of the world.

Operated entirely by volunteers, Karuna Charities works solely to provide help for extremely deserving cases, which may otherwise have little or no recourse. Donors looking to support Karuna Charities need not worry about where their donation money goes, for every dollar contributed goes fully to charitable purposes, with no administrative withholdings.

Since its inception in 1993, Karuna Charities has been headed by its visionary and permanent chairperson, Lekha Sreenivasan. The organization is governed by a body of ten office bearers, with the help of an Executive Committee, as well as an Advisory Board. In accordance with Karuna's guidelines, funds are distributed based on the degree of need and the urgency of the situation. Recommendations for awards are encouraged from different sources.

Karuna has donated $118,000 in cash and $95,000 in goods since its inception. Karuna's primary beneficiaries have been orphanages, nursing homes, soup kitchens, battered women's shelters, AIDS sufferers, and individuals in need of expensive life-saving medical procedures. Last Thanksgiving, Karuna Charities members served dinners to 500 people, and provided baskets full of presents to 50 families at Christmas. Most recently, Karuna funded a spinal surgery for a 7-year old girl in Kerala, India, which will enable her to walk.

Karuna Charities has also begun to collect and distribute items such as pacemakers, intraocular lenses, wheelchairs and other durable medical goods. Karuna is one of the primary organizations in the U.S. which arranges for the shipping of Indian clothing to areas ravaged by the forces of nature.

Every letter of thanks that we get from beneficiaries speaks volumes for the difference Karuna Charities has made in the lives of the needy. Karuna conveys its heartfelt thanks to you for doing your part as a sponsor, advertiser, or member. Thank you for helping us to help the helpless.

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Punarjanman School for Handicapped Children -- A Karuna Project

INDIAN GOVT WILL RAISE UNWANTED BABY GIRLS

[Associated Press, February 18, 2007]

NEW DELHI - The Indian government plans to set up a series of orphanages to raise unwanted baby girls in a bid to halt the widespread practice of aborting female fetuses, according to a senior government official.

Dubbed the "cradle scheme," the plan is an attempt to slow the practice that international groups say has killed more than 10 million female fetuses in the last two decades, leading to an alarming imbalance in the ratio between males and females in India, Renuka Chowdhury, the minister of state for women and child development, told the Press Trust of India news agency in an interview published Sunday.

"What we are saying to the people is have your children, don't kill them. And if you don't want a girl child, leave her to us," Chowdhury told the agency, adding that the government planned to set up a center in each regional district. "We will bring up the children. But don't kill them because there really is a crisis situation," she said.

On Sunday, police arrested a gynecologist and janitor at a hospital near the central Indian city of Bhopal after the discovery of nearly 400 bones from fetuses and newborns in a pit behind the hospital. It is believed they are the remains of unwanted baby girls.

Many districts in the country of more than 1 billion people routinely report only 800 girls born for every 1,000 boys. According to the latest census figures in India, the number of girls per 1,000 boys declined from 945 to 927 between 1991 and 2001.

Asked if the scheme would not encourage parents to abandon female infants, Chowdhury said: "It doesn't matter. It is better than killing them."

Discrimination against girls stems from the low value attached to females in Indian society. Girls are seen as a burden on the family, requiring a large dowry which many poor families cannot afford. Females are generally the last to be educated or to get medical treatment. Tests to determine the gender of a fetus are outlawed in India and the government says it is clamping down on doctors who break the law.

But social activists say there are many loopholes which allow those who provide tests to remain free. Since the law was enacted in 1994 only one doctor has been convicted. Chowdhury did not say how much the orphanage plan would cost but said money had been allocated in the next budget for it. Officials in her office could not immediately be reached for comment Sunday. It was not clear when the first orphanages will open.

"GIVE WORLD" ASSISTS CHARITIES IN INDIA

GIVE WORLD is a trusted exchange that connects people with the causes they care about. GiveWorld is owned and managed by GIVE Foundation, a volunteer driven organization. We currently connect people and organizations in the US with projects in India. We partner in this endeavor with GIVE INDIA who help ensure total transparency and accountability in project implementation.

We follow a unique partnership model where different partners bring a lot of passion and zeal to the effort, and the cause they work on is typically their organizational mission as well.

WHAT WE WANT TO ACHIEVE

Charity is generally sporadic giving by donors when a foundation or non-profit institution approaches them. We aim to make 'giving' a sustained commitment by fostering a relationship between charities and their donors. Along the way, we will answer questions like:

"Will my donation reach it's destination?"
"How was my contribution used?"
"How can I make my contribution more effective?"

Give Foundation is working to promote the cause of giving by answering the above questions and making charity more than a one-way street: we close the loop between donors and charities. Not only do donors contribute to charities, but we help charities give feedback and information to donors.

GIVE Foundation Inc. is a California corporation that is tax exempt under section 501(c)3 of the IRS code.

WE ARE A VOLUNTEER DRIVEN ORGANIZATION

* Number of employees: 0
* Salaries drawn: $0 (for 2002 to 2006 and year to date)
* Payment to Board of Directors: $0 (2002 to 2006 and year to date)

* 100% projects are carefully selected and certified
* 100% of your donation is used for the project you specify
* 100% guarantee of feedback on how your donation was used

SMALL CONTRIBUTIONS GO A LONG WAY

Did you know that for $14 or the cost of a cheap dinner for 2, you can sponsor a day at school for 250 children or a meal for 120 disabled children in India!!

For the first time, you can select the causes and projects as well as suggest how your contributions are used. We work with nearly 100 non-profits in India and have 400 projects ranging from $12 to $500. And we provide feedback, for ALL contributions.

Visit the website: GIVE WORLD

Orphan Reading From The Bible At Grace Ministries, India

CHRISTIAN OUTREACH IN INDIA

Greetings to you in the wonderful name of our lord Jesus Christ! I would like to inform you about our ministry and the activities of our ministry. My name is Pastor S.Chinna (Orissa) from the state Orissa in India. I was born and brought up in Christian family. At the age of 15years I accepted the lord as my personal savior. After my graduation B.Sc. I applied Bible College in Bangalore. After my B.Th again I applied for M.Div in Bangalore. After that I came to Andhra Pradesh for ministry. I went to many different villages and interior villages in Andhra Pradesh to do ministry. I was married in May 29,.2007.

God gave me wonderful life partner. Her name is Theresa. She sings wonderful songs. God has blessed us with a wonderful male son. We both are completely involved in ministry, with 15 co-workers. We have a great vision to reach the unreached and to touch the untouched. We are sharing the word of God with many poor and needy people and lost people of A.P.Visakhapatnam District and East Godavari District of India. God gave us a wonderful vision through Mathew 28: 19-21. Fulfilling the great commission.

God is using us many places of small urban and rural areas of Visakha District, A.P. India. We are winning the lost and reaching every unreached village of East coastal districts of Andhra Pradesh State. Presently we are doing ministry in 30 villages. We have 15 co-workers. I am traveling to different churches of our villages.

We are reaching them by visiting door to door personally and conducting open meetings and other creative ways. We saw many people are blessed with the word of God. Many of them have committed their lives and accepted the lord Jesus Christ as personal savior.

There are many villages people are still in darkness. They still don’t know about Jesus Christ. We want to reach out to those villages and plant churches and start children’s homes. Many churches and the pastors of interior villages do not have source of income and they need financial support and they need good church buildings. In villages, pastors are not getting any kind of financial support and the pastors are facing many difficulties.

In these villages thousands of children are school drop-outs. They are not getting any help from their parents and even in the villages. They are mainly untouchables of low caste and in the community they have no rights to study with high communities. So none of them are given hope and education. When I saw this situation I cried and I asked to the lord to give hope for them by giving education, shelter and above all the love of God.

Thousands of poor widows, handicapped and old age people are not getting enough food and do not have proper shelterto live in.

In our place people are strongly worshipping idols, animals, human beings and trees and are filled with witchcrafts.

So far we have reached more than 30 villages and planted 22 churches and built 5 churches. We are now giving special coaching to the school drop-outs and orphans at four places, with 227 children, and we also giving food for them. Our dream is to have childrens' homes in different places and English schools for them.

My hearty request to you is to please kindly come forward to pray and to support financially as the Lord leads, for the helpless orphans, widows, old age people and handicapped, and support the grassroots level pastors. We also seek sponsorship for church buildings, bicycles, two wheelers, Gospel Van, sound systes and medical clinic.

We ask you to please pray for the needs of our ministry

1. We need every month $2,200 for 187 children.
2. We need $25,000 for our main church construction.
3. We need support for 15 pastors. They are working with us. 15 x $50= $750 Dollars. per month.
4. We need children home for 200 children (land or Building.)
5. We need help for the poor old age and handicapped people.
6. We need motor cycles and mini 4 wheelers.
7. We need church musical instruments and sound system for the church.
8. We need funds for the Gospel printing tracts.
9. We need Bibles, tracts and books.

If you would like to visit our ministry and see the work our activities and bless the word of God in our churches, you are most welcome. If the spirit is leading you help these poor and needy children, churches, pastors, widows, handicapped and the needs of our ministry kindly contribute your offerings, tithes, special gifts, donation and etc to our ministry. As the lord leads you. Every single dollar which you are going to give it will be a great worth and great blessing for many poor children, churches and pastors families, and old ages people etc.

OUR BANK DETAILS;
ACCOUNT HOLDER: SIKALA CHINNA
ACCOUNT NUMBER: 019401501273.
BANK NAME: ICICI BANK
BRANCH: AINTHA PALI, (SAMBAL PUR)
ORISSA STATE. INDIA.
SWIFT CODE. CHASUS33XXX/FEDABA021000021.

We will look forward to hear from you. In His service:
Pastor. S.Chinna (Cornelius) & Theresa
Door no.5-10,Tulasinagar Street
Yellamanchili Village & Mandal
Visakhapatnam dist, pin.531055
Andhra Pradesh State
INDIA

Phone.91+9989796394.
Email. graceministries177@gmail.com
Email. graceministries2007@rediffmail.com
Email. chinna_36@rediffmail.com

He who is kind to the poor lends to the lord, and he will reward him for what he has done. Proverbs 19:17

Meal Time For Orphans At Grace Ministries, India

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The Mighty Himalayas

NAMASTE CHILDREN'S HOUSE

Almost everyone has heard of the highest mountain in the world—Mt. Everest. Many have heard the stories about people climbing this amazing attraction—some ending in tragedy and others in triumph. But not many have paid attention to the small country where Everest is located. Nepal is about the size of Kentucky with a population over 20 million. It is the one and only Hindu Kingdom of the world, landlocked between India and China.

Sadly, Nepal is also one of the poorest nations on the globe. Despite any hardship, Nepalese are known to be hospitable and kind. As guests of this noble country, you will be treated to a level of hospitality that will often leave you feeling like visiting royalty. The Nepalese orphanage that CAI works with is located in capital of Kathmandu. The children there are full of smiles and affection, reflecting the character of their caretakers and “orphanage family” that they know.

Waiting children 2 years old and up are available immediately!

When visiting the orphanages in Nepal, the number of children available for international adoption is overwhelming. In general, Nepalese themselves do not usually adopt. Being very poor it is difficult for most families to financially support children. In addition, their culture has not yet become accustomed to adopting. Those Nepalese who are unable to have children due to medical reasons will sometimes adopt a relative’s child, but even this is considered a rarity.

For parents traveling to Nepal to bring their child home, it will be impossible not to be affected by the rich culture and breathtaking landscapes that Nepal has to offer. This makes the opportunity to adopt a wonderful way to bring this nobility and beauty into your home, making it a part of your family’s heritage as well.

Namaste Children’s House (NCH) is a multi-denominational non-profit social organization. We are dedicated to providing love, education, healthcare, nutrition, and a solid sense of family, community and cultural identity to the orphaned and needy children of Nepal. The children gain a sense of security and belonging, allowing them to fulfill their potential as they make the transition into their adult lives.

NCH's founding principles are based in the name itself -- NAMASTE. By making a sincere effort to honor and respect the GOD that is living in all of us, we can strive to create a loving, creative, holistic, and healthy environment for these special children whose lives we have been faithfully entrusted with.

Indeed, NCH is not just about children. The organization aims to bring people from around the world closer and to give them a better understanding of the different cultures, religions, and problems we all face. Once the people of this world realize that we are all part of one big family we can collectively work towards restoring peace, prosperity and happiness to all human beings.

THE ORPHANAGE

In June 2003, Visma Raj Paudel and Cynthia Kennedy began a partnership that would eventually change the lives of so many Nepali children. While Visma became the chairman of our home-style orphanage here in Pokhara, Nepal, Cynthia began the US-based non-profit and sister organization Namaste House. Namaste Children House has since become an independent organization and we now draw funding from a whole host of local and international sources.

From the moment we registered in district office Kaski and became affiliated with the Social Welfare Council , we began searching for children and a home as well as staff. In short three months we leased and furnished a large house, which can accommodate beds for 60 to 65 children and rented playing ground. We have hired and trained staff, set up our office, accounting system and provisions.

In this short time, our family and our work has grown by leaps and bounds. We now support 50 children here in our home and even more through our Scholarship Program! Our connection and dedication to this community is strong and we believe that it will only become deeper and deeper as we continue growing. This means that our family will be growing, too! We couldn’t feel any more proud and thankful than we do now—and we still feel that our work has really only just begun.

"Be the change you want to see in the world" – Gandhi.

Visit the website: NAMASTE CHILDREN'S HOME

ORPHANAGE IN NEPAL

Destitute and Orphan Children Safeguarding Foundation, Nepal

We at DOCSF-Nepal are dedicated to providing food, shelter and education to children in Nepal, but do not receive any governmental funding and relies solely on the Charitable Contributions of our donors from all over the world. Thus, we need patrons/sponsors from all over the world to assist us in our efforts to shelter and educate these children in need.

The children we shelter are from financially destitute communities located in remote areas of Nepal that are commonly discriminated against, such as: Sunuwar, Tamang, Gurung, Magar, Thami, Damai, Rai, and Limbhu. At present, the only limitation on the number of children we can provide with support is financial.

We are working very hard to make these children one of best citizens of the country. The children are being taught in one of the best English Medium Schools in the valley and are brought up in a homely environment where they are treated as own children.

YOUNG BOY RECEIVING HEPATITIS VACCINATION

We provide each child with these basic needs:

(1) Nutritious food prepared by well-trained house-cooks.

(2) Private school education.

(3) Clean accommodations and laundry service.

(4) Tutors to assist them with their lessons.

(5) Skill Development Programs:

*(a) Computer education.
*(b) Training to repair electronic items.
*(c) Music and Dance class.
*(d) Tailoring training for girls.
*(e) Painting / Pottery class.

(6) Child to Child Program.

(7) Medical check-ups.

*(a) General Check-ups every month.
*(b) Immune Vaccinations during Childhood.
*(c) Hepatitis B Vaccination.
*(d) Vitamin A, & Polio.

(8) Recreational programs.

*(a) Outing on Holidays.
*(b) Picnic.

(9) School uniform and casual clothes.

(10) School supplies.

DOCSF-Nepal.
Lalitpur Sub Municipality - # 13
Kusunti, Nayanagar, Adarsha Marga, Nepal
Phone : 5543205
info@docfnepal.org

NEPAL ORPHANS

Setting Of Xieqing Charity Orphan School In Tibet

Xieqing Charity Orphan School is a non-governmental organization. The school is located on a beautiful grassland at the foot of snow-capped mountains in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province, southwest China.

The founder and principal of the school, Gongxia Rinpoche has been dedicated to establishing the school since 2004. After two years hard endeavors, with assistance of donors and volunteers from local Tibetan communities, other parts of China and abroad, Rinpoche fulfilled the construction of a modern school for Tibetan orphans on a highland with an altitute over 4,000 meters. Rinpoche completed the first phase of the school construction in the summer of 2006. The first 50 orphans entered the school in September 2006.

The school is very important to the Tibetans. Living conditions in these Tibetan areas are difficult because of high altitude and isolation. Local people lead a traditional life of nomads and farmers, without access to education. Due to harsh conditions, many children lose one or both parents and become orphans. Although local people are kind-hearted and provide them with basic shelter and food, they are unable to provide the orphans with a nurturing and healthy living environment and an opportunity for comprehensive and modern education.

The school will be a warm home for orphans; and provide them education in Tibetan, Chinese, English languages, mathematics, natural sciences, ethics, arts, etc. Children will also receive vocational training such as greenhouse farming, medicine plant growing, animal herding, environment protection, handicraft arts, tourist services, etc.

Through providing the orphans with education, the school also hopes to introduce advanced concepts and technology of the outside world to these isolated villages; and gradually influence the education and life in rural Tibetan areas. Furthermore, as more and more volunteers and supporters are involved in volunteering their time and skills, etc for the school, more and more people will be benefited from helping others, experiencing a new life and building friendship across ethnic, national and cultural differences.

TEACHING AT THE SCHOOL

As a sponsor of the orphan school, Lotus hopes to provide the orphans an opportunity to know the outside world and learn knowledge and skills which will be helpful to them and gradually the local communities. We also hope to provide international volunteers a chance to offer help in a Tibetan school, and know a different life and culture.

WHO MAY VOLUNTEER?

Volunteers need to be mature, independent and in good health.

WHAT WILL YOU DO AS A VOLUNTEER?

Volunteers will teach English to the orphans. Those who have education/working experience in health care, teaching environmental protection and green house building are also welcomed.

COST IN USD

$ 1,980 with no length limits. We support volunteering from a few weeks to year long at the same price.

WHAT IS INCLUDED

* Airport pick-up and drop-off in Beijing.
* 10 nights Homestay in Beijing (for periods before and after volunteering in Tibet), including private bedroom, breakfast & dinner, computer and free DSL Internet service.
* Round flight tickets from Beijing to Chengdu
* USD 100 donation to the school
* Accommodation and food provided by the orphan school
* Supervision and 24-hour phone assistance from Lotus Beijing Office

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:

LOTUS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

Or email: info@lotusstudy.com

Gongxia Rinpoche With Tibetan Orphans

RIBUR RINPOCHE FUND

By Richard Gere

I write at a time of sorrow and opportunity in the Tibetan community. With the recent passing of Ven. Ribur Rinpoche, I am reminded of his deep sense of responsibility to the refugee monks and nuns living in monastic institutions in the South of India settlements, particularly those in need of quality health care. As an act of remembrance and commitment, HTD has created the Ribur Rinpoche Fund to provide as many as possible with medical insurance.

Rinpoche was a remarkable man. Following the Chinese occupation, he was subjected to 17 years of imprisonment and torture, including some 35 of the notorious "struggle sessions" during the Cultural Revolution. He was exiled in 1985, never to see his homeland again.

I first met Rinpoche in 1996 in the Indian foothills of the Himalayas at Dharamsala. I've never known a kinder being. He overflowed with love, mischief and ferocious energy. He was always fun and fascinating. No matter how painful his body, one always left him with the surety that all good things were possible and liberation inevitable.

During his imprisonment and after, a primary concern of Rinpoche and something he spoke of constantly, was the future survival and continuity of Tibetan Buddhism, which he felt was in the hands of the trained geshes and khenpos and the monastic institutions that produced them, nearly all of which were destroyed by the Chinese in the 1960's. These great seats of learning, which were essentially the Harvards, Princetons and Yales of Central Asia, have been slowly rebuilt in exile, mostly in the South of India.

Rinpoche saw that ill health and accidents in the monastic population were posing a serious threat to the transmission of knowledge and spiritual practice to the next generation. For impoverished monks and nuns living in remote refugee settlements, access to advanced medical care was simply beyond their means and the monasteries did not have the resources to cover catastrophic illnesses and accidents.

Ribur Rinpoche's first and most urgent request of me was to create a medical fund to take care of these needs. Over the last seven years, the Tibet Health Initiative has provided the means for a revolving roster of 800 monks and nuns at 15 monasteries and nunneries each year to receive primary and catastrophic medical care, including life-saving operations. Hundreds of lives have been profoundly affected and in the process the monasteries have been greatly strengthened.

Over the years, we have evolved an innovative and unique model that is essentially an integrated medical insurance program. In January of this year, we sponsored a major evaluation of the program by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. The researchers' enthusiasm has encouraged us to undertake a three-year expansion of the Initiative to eventually serve more than 5,000 monks and nuns.

Through our expanded program, access to quality care can be in reach for this entire community. A gift of $100 to the Ribur Rinpoche Fund will pay health insurance premiums for more than 20 monks and nuns for a year, while $250 will provide benefits to more than 50. The potential of this program is great, and I have personally pledged to match the moneys raised for the Fund to help realize it.

In addition to profoundly impacting the Tibetan exile community, we feel this innovative and unique program could serve as a model for refugee health care around the world, and with your help we will be able to share it with people around the globe.

Supporting the Ribur Rinpoche Fund offers a unique opportunity to commemorate one man's remarkable life by transforming into reality his vision of providing health care to the community he served and loved. Your commitment will concretely change the lives of these men and women for the better and make a genuine contribution to the preservation of Tibetan knowledge and culture.

Thank you for joining us in this unique and important endeavor.

(Signed) Richard Gere.

Visit the website: Ribur Rinpoche Fund

An orphan girl with her "new mother" (an orphan as well).

TIBET -- ONE OF THE POOREST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD

“Rokpa” is the Tibetan word for “to help” or “to serve.”

ROKPA INTERNATIONAL is a charity, which was founded in 1980 by its President Dr. Akong Tulku Rinpoche, a Tibetan meditation master and doctor and by Ms. Lea Wyler, its Vice-President, a Swiss actress, together with her father, the well-known Swiss lawyer, Dr. Veit Wyler. The international headquarters are in Zurich, Switzerland with national headquarters and branches in 17 countries.

Tibet is a vast area, equal in size to the whole of Europe and is one of the poorest countries in the world. In contrast to other developing countries, Tibet suffers an extremely harsh winter. In consequence a substantial part of people's income must be spent on heating.

According to the World Bank figures the GNP per capita/pa. stands at $US 170. Infant mortality is at 147 (per 1,000 live births). Adult literacy rate for men is 38%, for women 13%. There is 1 qualified doctor for each 16,830 of the population. 37% have access to clean water.

ROKPA concentrates its activities at present on Eastern Tibet which covers four provinces: Autonomous Region of Tibet, Sichuan, Qinhai, and Yunnan.75-95%of the population are of Tibetan origin. In the sparsely populated areas in the North East small scale agriculture and animal husbandry is the principal occupation. There are often no roads and the region is only accessible across the steppe by jeep or on horseback.

The frugal way of life in Tibet, full of privation, with its harsh winters and abundance of snow, claims countless lives every year, due also to erosion of country roads. Through avalanches, land slides, car accidents and diseases many children are left without parents or with only one. If these children are not taken in by relatives who can afford to take care of them, they are forced to beg in the streets. In either case it is hardly possible for them to attend school, a fact which prevents a decent future.

ROKPA has established a fund for these hardship cases which supports mainly orphans. It provides for the costs of living and education and thus enhances the chance of an independent, humane future.

Visit the website: ROKPA