A generous dental team from the Canada donated their time and resources to provide dental care to the staff, students, and family members of the Nepal House Girls School. Dr. Paul Comparelli, Diane Horita and volunteers staged Dental Camps that touched the lives of a large number of people - if you have a Facebook account and have "NepalHouseKaski" as a connection, you can view the latest photos.

This is an opportunity that many of the girls attending Nepal House Girls School would have never gotten without the support of Nepal House and I am extremely grateful that the support was present to provide this incredible experience to the students. 

I mean think about it for a sec, what would we do without our biannual visits to the dentist? Can you even imagine going years without ever being told how to take care of--or even that you should take care of your teeth? I will be the first to admit I couldn't. Dental decay and periodontal diseases are rampant in developing nations.

In fact, there are no Childrens' hospitals in Pokhara, Nepal where Nepal House is located. This dental camp marks Nepal House getting one step closer to the dream of establishing proper childrens facilities in Nepal.  

Thank you to all the Nepal House supporters who have been able to make programs such as this one a reality!! 

Check out some photos from the dental camp!

Namaste, 

Kylesh

Founder

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Kylesh

The leaders in this club did a tremendous job educating their peers and teachers  about Nepal House efforts. If you do get a chance to read through this website, you will note that in such countries like Nepal where hierarchy is deeply embedded in the culture, when a male is educated, he will most likely leave the country for more opportunities and seldom physically come back to the community to share his knowledge. No blame but a simple fact. On the flipside, when a female from such communities is educated, she has a natural tendency to stay in her homeland and  contirbute to society. Those around her learn about life skills and the knowledge is shared freely. In essence, it's a domino effect that leads to more educated, aware, and assertive females.

Nepal House US Chapter wants to sincerely thank every single member of The Girl Effect Club at Northview Highschool and their wonderful sponsor Mrs. Tania Pope . Your contributions are enabling twenty little bright eyed little girls at  the Girls School to grow and flourish in all the best possible ways.

Saika Sharma

US Ambassador

Juna (her nickname) lived in one of the children’s homes that support children with HIV and AIDS after her parents died of AIDS.  Nepal House Kaski has a mobile counseling centre here. Juna was in counseling with me for over two years. Juna was HIV positive and had pneumonia when she was a small child. Both her lungs were not functioning well since that time. The children’s home caregivers referred her to us reporting that Juna was often angry, cried easily and did not believe staff when they said she would get better. When I worked with her she shared her confusion about her future; whether she would get better or not. She was very sick, probably dying when I started working with her and no one at the home would talk with her about her condition. She was worried about what was happening to her. Her body got swollen and she could not breathe well.  She had a sister who refused to visit her because of the AIDs.

I taught her many experiential exercises that she found helpful. We also talked in phone many times.  She liked to talk and share, and did a lot of art work.  She had a huge desire to go to school like her friends but her health never allowed her to. I talked to the staff this and they arranged to do some classes with her at the children’s home. After working with her many months the staff reported that, she was less angry and cried less and was more confident.  I started doing two sessions a week with her because she was getting so sick. One time she told me that one of her caregivers was hitting her at night when she was coughing and wheezing from pneumonia. I spoke with the administration and made sure that the staff stopped doing that. 

Her pneumonia got worse and she was hospitalized. I visited her there until she got worse and was transferred to Kathmandu. We continued to talk on the phone regularly. I had given her a small statue of the god Ganesh 2 months earlier after she had told me that her own statue was broken and she could no longer pray. She was so happy when I gave it to her, but it was left behind in Pokhara. When a staff told her she was coming to visit, Juna asked especially for them to bring her “the Ganesh statue Laxmi-Miss gave me”. The staff called to tell me that, and it touched me deeply.  I spoke with her by phone often until she died in August. While I could not stop her from dying, I know that I provided her with safe place to share her emotional pain; that I was there to care about her and provide comfort and support.

Laxmi Gautam

Counselor

A friend of mine who works in Shakti Group talked about a particular family that lives at Malepatan, Pokhara.  After hearing the story of family I was curious to visit them.  Shakti group found a girl 11years old while being the victim of trafficking and rescued from the boarder of Nepal and India.  Shakti Group staff visited her family in Malepaten.  While visiting, they found one year girl inside the dark room which was locked from outside.  They could not do anything at that time and in the next days they try to meet the parents. Fortunately they were able to meet them and could learn few things about them.  After that they contact me and I wanted to visit the family immediately. I went with my friend from Shakti Group to see the girl. It is really hard to express in words how I felt when I see the situation. I just could hear the girl crying inside. In the dark room I could not see anything and try to pull the window out and was able to pull it out and hardly saw a little one inside. The girl stopped crying. I thought the little girl was scared but I came to know that she heard some human around her and stopped crying.  I hardly saw her head through the iron rod bar and thought she was tied with rope on her leg because she was not moving. I wanted to visit the parents immediately if possible and talked in the neighbor. Luckily we met the lady in neighbor and she gave some information where the mother works. We found the place. At that time it was already getting dark. When we saw her, she was still mixing cement and sand to finish water tank.  She sounded like she needs one more hour then she could go to home. I saw a little girl by the side of mother. I found, she is her daughter, another daughter. I thought that I need to talk to my friends in Nepal House, Kaski and make plan to help the family. While talking to the mother I got to know that her husband is in the hospital. He has tuberculosis and is really ill. I came to Nepal House, Kaski and shared the fact what I saw and every one at Nepal House are ready to do something that is helpful. I shared the story with our supervisor from Canada and felt better after that. Nepal House team is working to help the family and the girl who is in Shakti Group started to come to NHK School. Situation in the family is already is getting better. Most importantly the one year old  girl is getting time from her mother and not locked all day long in the dark room.  The father is not in the hospital anymore and is in regular medication.  The family is seeing some changes already and there is hope.

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Basanta Subedi

Counsellor NHK

She is ten years. Her father has been suffering from tuberculosis for few years and could not buy medicine due to extreme poverty. Recently he was in contact with one organization that helped him buying medicine. The girl has her mother who goes to work if she finds work and bye food for family. The girl has one 4 years old sister and another smallest one is one year. The Ten years old girl never got chance to go to the school. One organization that called Shakti Group in Pokhara introduced her to Nepal house, Kaski. Nepal House,Kaski  staff went to visit the family. NHK staff realized that the situation in the family wouldn’t allow her to go to the school at that time because she had to look after her sisters when mother goes to work outside for long hours. We visited her mother many times and talked to her about the possibilities that improve the situation and  10years old gorl can go to the school.

The situation seems to be improving when father could be more responsible aftertaking regular medicine. We talk about admitting the girl at Nepal House school. The girl was happy to hear that she is going to attend the school in a week. The mother was saying that she would bring her at Nepal House, Kaski in a week. They didn’t show up on that day and we went to visit them instead. We the girl was badly injured. Very badly in her right eye. The girl and her two sisters were at home. She couldn’t open her eye. She was seeing with her left hand. She was full of tears and yellow/ red mixed liquid from her injured eye. It looked very serious injury. She said that she was not going to the hospital. I talked to NHK group and arranged her to go to the eye hospital immediately. I directly took her to the emergency unit and the doctor checked her immediately. It was very bad injury and she could easily loose her eye sight if she was a bit late, the doctor said. The doctor started treatment and admitted her there for one week. She got better and was able to save her eye. Now she is back to her home and we arranged her to come to Nepal House, Kaski School. She is very happy to come to the school. This is her first day at Nepal House School when I wrote this blog. We hope she will be able to continue her school and grow.

Rajan Dahal

NHK

We have all been waiting for it and it is finally here - the second grade! As most of you know, each year, the Nepal House school grows organically, adding a new grade starting with Kindergarten until the first class reaches 12th grade. At the end of this month, late May, our kindergarteners from last year will move on to the 1st grade class and a new set of girls will be entering the kindergarten class this year. The girls have already been selected, as well as a teacher, and a room in the Nepal House has been reserved for the next grade. As you read this blog, the last preparations for the school are being made, despite Nepal's current situation, and the school will be in session in just a few weeks.

I want to call out the Nepal House team in Pokhara and thank them for their hard work this year. They have all done an oustanding job and been pivotal in making the dream become a reality. We are so lucky to have them and the Nepal House US Chapter is looking forward to another successful year!

Namaste,

Kylesh  

Many of the participants were telling it is very new kind of learning. The principal said that their school would like to coordinate and work with Nepal House, Khaski in the coming future. One of the participants said that this training workshop was very helpful to have understanding about how to see children in a respective way.  Our goal was not to make them the counselors but to create an environment where we can talk about counseling and let them know how they can be helpful when students or the children have some issues and they have concerns. See them as a child and not as a problem. When children have difficulty with something and struggling, often people here think child as a problem which is not helpful.

Laxmi  Gautam Tripathi

The goal of the school was to educate the girls from disadvantaged families and support them through counseling and teaching them life skills for the future. Our teachers and counselors learned some important skills working with such families and their children, because they are the best teachers for us. Our team is here visiting the new families and they are exploring the children not only for the school but they have found some children who need immediate counseling. The school and the counseling program are very parallel and it is interesting that the field visit for school is finding the children who need counseling.

This time the team is working on preparing the new classroom, furniture, curriculum design, and many other tasks to open the new class. We are looking forward to seeing new children in the centre and we hope we can manage on time.

Thank you all again for your time and support. We will come with new updates very soon.

Shiva Thapa

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