Happy Home, Nepal 

Lions Trevor and June Lloyd-Adams, from Worcester, spent 3 weeks last October as volunteers in Happy Home orphanage in Nepal and declared it “a life-changing experience”.

Happy Home is a NGO run by a Nepali man, Bishwa, who has made it his ambition to see all the street children in Kathmandu taken off the streets and given the chance of a better life. This picture shows the 20 children from Happy Home on a day-outing to see the sunrise over the Himalayas. As can be seen here, these children are among the lucky ones: they are well-fed, clothed and happy and lucky enough to attend a good private English speaking school. But all of this relies purely on donations from people around the world – there is no government scheme to assist this work.

There are estimated to be 2000 street children in Kathmandu, mainly due to the ten years of civil unrest which has left women without a bread winner and no home. For the majority of these abandoned children the future is dismal and many turn to substance abuse (often glue sniffing) and begging to get through their daily misery. It has been said that they are simply waiting to die.

Lions Trevor and June had a wonderful time with the children from Happy Home and were able to supply the children and the orphanage with many necessities thanks to the donations they received from Lions and friends and family. They are determined to return to Nepal and are now in the process of starting up another project that will help single mothers to find employment so that they can feed and, hopefully, educate their children.

If you would like to know more about the children of Nepal please contact Lion June on 07815 096841 or june.lloyd.adams@hotmail.co.uk