Fundraising Progress: $32,035.90

About

Sun­rise Children’s Asso­ci­a­tion and Kali­mati Slums

The Char­ity we have cho­sen to sup­port is Aus­tralian based and accred­ited both here and in Nepal. They have many pro­grammes to assist Nepalese chil­dren. Their video is on this web­site. The full video can be found on youtube at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiJU1AKSZzA

Sun­rise Children’s Asso­ci­a­tion have been work­ing with the peo­ple from Kali­mati, a slum area in Kath­mandu, for over 5 years. The con­di­tions in which they live are appalling, with many liv­ing in makeshift homes on the edge of a filthy dirty river bed, some made of only a bam­boo and plas­tic. Most of the par­ents are unem­ployed and sur­viv­ing through beg­ging on the streets. While some are for­tu­nate enough to earn a very basic salary (approx $20 per month) through man­ual labour work and jobs such as tai­lor­ing. How­ever it is not suf­fi­cient to send their chil­dren to school and in some cases barely enough to feed the chil­dren properly.

In our first two years, Kath­mandu Kids, on behalf of SCIA, raised over $51,000 for the fur­ther edu­ca­tion of these chil­dren. This money was used to expand out the over­all edu­ca­tion pro­grammes avail­able to the chil­dren and par­ents of the community.

Sun­rise Chil­drens Asso­ci­a­tion holds reg­u­lar coun­sel­ing ses­sions with both the chil­dren and guardians of the Kali­mati Com­mu­nity. All the par­ents seem very devoted to pro­vid­ing their chil­dren with oppor­tu­ni­ties to become edu­cated, inde­pen­dent and self reliant mem­bers of the com­mu­nity. Sun­r­rise Chil­drens Asso­ci­a­tion have put in place con­tracts that all guardians and the school needed to sign to ensure they take respon­si­bil­ity for things like their child’s reg­u­lar atten­dance, health, hygiene and the like.

The money we raise goes towards admis­sion fees, exam fees, uni­forms, shoes, bags, books, sta­tion­ary, work­books, bus to and from school, work­ing out at $14-$15 per month per child. Last year, thanks to the sup­port of fan­tas­tic spon­sors and the gen­er­ous peo­ple who attended the quiz night, we were suc­cess­ful in rais­ing this money, with addi­tional money going to:

  • 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

Aside to the edu­ca­tion sup­port, Sun­rise Chil­drens Asso­ci­a­tion also take a group of teenage chil­dren from Sun­rise Orphan­age to the slums on a monthly or bi-monthly basis to learn about Social Work. The Sun­rise “Out­reach Team” talk to the chil­dren in the slums about their fam­ily sit­u­a­tion, issues they face both in daily life and at school, and try and encour­age and help them where pos­si­ble. The Sun­rise chil­dren also ben­e­fit greatly from the pro­gram, and it makes them appre­ci­ate how lucky they are to be at Sun­rise even more.

In July of each year, we begin our fundrais­ing to pay for the annual edu­ca­tion of The Kali­mati Slum Kids. This is done com­pletely through the SCAI. If you would like to book a ticket, email Paul Cum­ming at paul@phenomenon.com.au or fol­low the links from thie cock­tail night page. If you would like to just make a dona­tion or offer some level of spon­sor­ship, please con­tact Paul Cum­ming at paul@phenomenon.com.au

Tax deductable sta­tus has been granted to SCAI by the Aus­tralian Tax Office. Any dona­tions of $5 or more will receive a claimable receipt. 

On top of the cause taken on by Kath­mandu Kids, Sun­rise Chil­drens Orphan­age has many more wor­thy fundrais­ing needs– includ­ing buy­ing and build­ing their own land for a school and hous­ing for their chil­dren. Present facil­i­ties include phys­io­ther­apy facil­i­ties for their dis­abled or injured chil­dren, edu­ca­tion, hous­ing and a safe and lov­ing home.

Thank you in advance for your very gen­er­ous sup­port! We look for­ward to work­ing together to bring these chil­dren a brighter future.

Phenomenon - Creative Event Services - Perth, Western Australia