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Christmas in Nepal
Christmas arrived a little early in Nepal this year!
Thanks to some very generous donations from our partners WSDO, the Good Shepherd Daycare, Educate a Child, and numerous donations from individual donors, the children at our school in Nepal, got a little early Christmas cheer!
Ma'am Ram Kali Khadka also made an appearance to add to the Christmas spirit.
Check out all the pictures from the party below!
Merry Christmas to everyone in Nepal!
Andy Manley was a great supporter of Meaningful Volunteer and unfortunately died in a tragic house explosion.
He kindness and generosity is not forgotten. Both of our schools in Nepal and Uganda are built in his memory.
The staff and students at our school in Nepal recently had a service to remember Andy's life and legacy.
Check out all the photos below
Here at Meaningful Volunteer, we like to celebrate life.
Our schools in Uganda and Nepal do not commemorate Andy Manley's death, but rather celebrate his life. We also celebrate our friend Robyn through the new Robyn's Nest classrooms in Uganda.
Anne and Doris Eichmeyer, good friends of Andy Manley, recently returned to our school in Uganda and were moved by what they saw. So they decided to donate funds that will go towards a new playground at the school.
The playground will be constructed to honour Doris' grandchildren Asher and Jory.
We look forward to the completion of the playground that will celebrate Asher and Jory. We hope that they can visit the school when they are older.
Thanks Anne! Thanks Doris! And an extra big thank you to Asher and Jory.
Santa made an appearance at the Good Shepherd Daycare to hand out Christmas presents to all the students there.
We cannot confirm nor deny that Malcolm Trevena was secretly dressed as Santa.
Joey Pascis, the owner/operator for the daycare, was gracious enough to ask for donations for Meaningful Volunteer from the parents. Joey Pascis has been a long time supporter of Meaningful Volunteer.
Over $250 was collected and this will go towards a Christmas day program at our school in Uganda.
Thank you Joey and all the parents!
Thanks to some generous donations, the kids at our School in Nepal got some winter clothes and toys!
Check out all the pics below.
Special thanks to WSDO Nepal for their help in coordinating this.
Thanks to a generous donation from a volunteer, our staff now has new cell phones that can take video!
Check out some of the videos they have sent to us
Didi and Hema
I like to think of Meaningful Volunteer as a family.
We have made so many meaningful connections with communities across the world. Returning to these communities feels like returning home.
This extends to our staff as well who are truly immersed in their community.
It is with great sadness that that I have to report the passing of Didi - our friend and sister of Hema Gurung our district manager in Nepal. Our thoughts are with Hema and her family during this difficult time.
Progress continues to be made on the new playground for the children at our school in Nepal.
The ground has now been completely flattened and ready for the playground to go down. This is no small feet for ground that rests on the banks of the Himalayas.
We're only a few weeks away now from go-live for the playground.
Watch this space for more info.
Anne Eichmeyer, both a former volunteer and Meaningful Volunteer staff member returned recently to Buyaya in Uganda together with her mother Doris.
The community were very excited upon their arrival and put on a welcoming ceremony. Anne was on of the key figures in securing some of the initial funds for the School for Andy and the community had not forgotten.
Anne also managed to secure funding for about about 100 mosquito nets that were distributed around the village. Pregnant women and children are most vulnerable to malaria and they were given priority.
Thank Anne and Doris! You are both amazing people and we are so grateful for everything you do!
24 Oct 201
As mentioned previously thank to a very generous donation by the Manley family, we have enough funds to construct a playground for our school in Nepal.
Our school is located in a little village called Rithepani in western Nepal. If you peer our one of the windows of our school you'll see the Himalayan mountain range. The school was built on one of the few pieces of flat land around the village.
Nevertheless, there is still ground work to be done before we can formally install the play equipment. The ground needs to be leveled in places, and a lot of rocks and debris needs to be cleared.
This work is well underway and the kids will soon have a nice safe place to play to excercise their human right to play.
Article 24 of the Declaration of Human Rights states:
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.
"Rest and leisure" are what kids call play!
