Kopila Foundation is a children home located in Bhaktapur. This Children home is run by a woman who is a Cancer Survivor Sanu Thapa for more than a decade. Due to her illness now she is taking care of only about a dozen. when she was not ill she used to take care of about two dozen children alone. She sure will appreciate your help to raise these children. JB, thank you for helping me to reach out to these children and my special thank you also goes to Shradha Rana [ Gaura ].
I Truly appreciate your support so would like to thank you [ Ishwar Jee ] for your support to help me reach out to these children. I also would like to thank Binod Dhakal, very respected local social worker and a rising name in politics who helped me to visit all the four children homes during my visit to Chitwan.
The New Youth Children's Development society is located in Chamasing, Bhaktapur. I met Shiva Shanker Nepali, founder and Chairman of the children home who has been running it since 2002. It has 42 children in it which he has been running with the help of continuous support of local and international for food, shelter and education.
I would like to thank my dear friend Amita and her close knit circle of family and friends for helping me to reach out to these children. And this is only half of your support, more is on the way.
Only one in 20 children homes has a kitchen garden at their service. This is one major part of daily expenses as we need it day in and day out. Fresh vegetables not only best for health reason but the garden for it also serve as a mean to discipline children from very young age.They should be allowed to do is weeding and watering it according to the age. Tilling the land before planting should be left with adult hand.
This kitchen garden has been the source of vegetables to feed 40 plus children for more than a decade. It is a river side land which belongs to the government under the the local metropolitan division. Here mostly riverside land are used as garbage dumping side so, The founder of the children home first cleaned it up and then started growing vegetables for children. In the beginning authority from the metropolitan office rejected the idea [ better dumping site than the kitchen garden ]. Then Shiva Shanker Nepali convinced them saying when you need it we will leave it to you since then they never said a word against it. And its feeding the fresh, homegrown organic vegetables to almost 50 people everyday.