Welcome to Kathmandu Kids

A rag­tag group headed up a Nepalese Peak (Yala) in Novem­ber 2009. All of them expe­ri­enced trav­ellers who are long past their youth­ful back­pack­ing days, they all feel pretty strongly about giv­ing some­thing back. Join­ing them was a group of equally pas­sion­ate vol­un­teers who helped to make the inau­gural Kath­mandu Kids Quiz Night a huge suc­cess in Sep­tem­ber 2009.

Since going and see­ing the kids who the quiz night has helped, it has been decided to make the quiz night an annual event.

To walk through a third world coun­try and see the faces of smil­ing yet poverty stricken kids is a bit­ter­sweet expe­ri­ence. It is incred­i­ble to see how these kids– who have no mate­r­ial goods and lim­ited future opportunities-  embrace the joy of life. It is a hum­bling lesson.

We would love it if you could help us to con­tinue to make a bit of a dif­fer­ence. We have cho­sen to sup­port a won­der­ful char­ity Sun­rise Children’s Asso­ci­a­tion Inc. Aus­tralia (SCAI). Every cent we raise goes directly to fur­ther the kids edu­ca­tion and the peo­ple of the Kali­mati Slums. No fees from the char­ity at all.

Our con­tin­ued focus is to  raise funds to allow the slum kids from Kali­mati to be schooled for one year. In 2009 there were 104 chil­dren. This is an annual fundraiser that SCAI under­take. This years tar­get fig­ure is $35,000 so we can fur­ther extend the programme.

 2009’s fundrais­ing efforts went towards:

• All School fees for 104 chil­dren for 1 year
• School trans­port both ways from the Kali­mati slum for 1 year
• Uni­forms, shoes, bags, books and sta­tion­ary for the students
• The devel­op­ment, rebuild­ing and oper­a­tion of a class­room on site at the slum to intro­duce the kids and their par­ents to the ben­e­fits of education
• The buy­ing of 250 track­suits for all the slum chil­dren to pro­tect them from the win­ter cold
• Assist­ing a slum fam­ily rebuild their ‘home’ that was burnt to the ground
• Estab­lish­ment of a train­ing cen­tre to teach the par­ents can­dle mak­ing, sewing and English

We had an over­whelm­ing level of sup­port for the 2009 Quiz and look for­ward to the Sep­tem­ber 13th 2010 Event!

Watch this video to learn more about the Sunrise Children's Association Sunrise Children's Association Inc. Australia Support KathmanduKids on facebook Join us for our Quiz Night Findraiser! September 14 @ Carnegies Bar & Restaurant

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