Happy Home is currently running four projects, all of which are described on this page. If you would like to contribute to any of these projects, please visit our donations page or contact us directly.

Current Projects

• Project A: The Happy Home orphanages
• Project B: Providing education to underprivileged children
• Project C: Building a new Happy Home orphanage in Kathmandu
• Project D: Exclusive project for street children

The Happy Home orphanages

On June 1, 2007 we established the first Happy Home orphanage in Boharatar, Kathmandu with space for 20 children. In the summer of 2009 we moved to a better location in Kupondol, Kathmandu. In October, 2009 we opened our second orphanage which will house 15 girls, all of whom will have come from living on the streets.

At the orphanages we provide a safe and healthy environment for homeless, abandoned and orphaned children. The children receive shelter, meals, clothing and healthcare. They attend nearby schools and all necessary expenses, fees and education materials are provided by Happy Home. We want to offer them good facilities so that they may enjoy their leisure time and thus, be able to experience a happy childhood.

Click here to see the children currently living at the orphanages.

How you can help support this project

Sponsors, individuals and organizations can help break these children's vicious cycle of poverty by supporting them in a number of ways:

• Sponsoring one or more children by providing a lump sum fund or a regular monthly donation
• Donating clothes or education materials
• Visiting our Happy Home orphanages to teach, read and play with the children
• Volunteering at the Happy Home orphanages for an extended period, including living at the orphanages

Your sponsoring of a child or general donation provides the children with accomodation in a family environment with the following benefits:

• Three meals a day
• Clothing, including school uniforms
• Education at an English Medium School (Boarding School)
• Additional optional tutoring in the morning
• Education materials
• Combined study room and library
• Indoor playroom
• Sports and games
• Educational tours at least once a year
• Celebration of traditional Nepali festivals

Sponsors will receive a quarterly progress report about the activities of the Happy Home orphanages including:

• Visual documentary and photographs of the children
• Each child's educational progress report
• Reports and photographs of extra-curricular activities in the Happy Home orphanages, e.g. sports, singing, dancing, drawing, quiz etc.
• Our Happy Home Newsletter
• A financial report
• Any other information you request

The annual cost of supporting a child in the Happy Home orphanages is $1000 USD per year. This covers everything the child will need in a given year. You can find the details of these costs in this PDF document.

Providing education to underprivileged children

In addition to helping the children in our orphanage, Happy Home is running a project to help the needy children in the villages of Nepal. This project targets those children who are living in a home with their parents or other guardians, but whose families are not able to cover the expenses of a school education.

This project's aim is to help these families financially to get their children enrolled in nearby schools and ensure that they receive proper education. Happy Home currently supports 100 children within this project in remote and poor villages of Nepal. Our aim is to provide a good education for the children of poor families and scheduled caste, and thus to enable them to lead a decent life in our society.

Click here to see the children being supported by this project.

We at Happy Home believe in the dignity and equality of every human being and do not promote the caste system. Nevertheless, we are aware that being considered as 'lower caste' leads to social discrimination and is often a huge obstacle in the way out of poverty.

How you can help support this project

In this project the sponsors, individuals or organizations can help break the children's vicious cycle of poverty by supporting them with a school education. By sponsoring a child in this category you can provide:

• Initial school administration fee
• Monthly tuition fee
• Two school uniforms every six months (winter and summer)
• Education materials such as,
  • School books
  • Exercise books, pencils etc.
  • School bag, water bottle etc.
  • daily snacks at school

Sponsoring individuals and organizations will receive a quarterly progress report of the educational support, including:

• Visual documentary and photographs of the children
• Letters from the children
• The child's educational progress report
• Reports and photographs of the child's extra curricular activities, e.g. sports, singing, dancing, drawing, quiz etc.
• Our Happy Home Newsletter

If you wish to view any further information please ask us and we will be happy to provide it.

The annual cost of providing a child with one year's education is $320 USD per year. This covers everything the child will need in a given year. You can find the details of these costs in this PDF document.

Building a new Happy Home orphanage in Kathmandu

We are currently seeking funds to buy a home in Kathmandu which will replace the rented building for our orphanage. The building we currently use costs us a monthly rent and can house only 17 children. We need a place which the children can call their own. We also need a bigger place which can house more orphaned and street children.

To build our own house for the orphanage, Happy Home needs considerably large amount of funds. The funds needed in building our own orphanage are to purchase the land, to construct the buildings and to furnish the rooms according to the need of the children. Although the initial outlay seems quite high, it will save monthly rental in the long run which can instead be used in fulfilling the needs of the children.

You can find the detail of the costs by

Exclusive project for street children

Unfair social structure, natural disasters, domestic violence, and lack of a social security system in Nepal predispose the children and women very vulnerable. This situation was further aggravated during the decade long Maoist insurgency as children and young people were forced to join in the rebel forces. The conflict between the rebels and the security forces took the lives of thirteen thousand Nepalis, many children and young people among them. Hundreds of children became orphaned and wives widowed. This added a substantial number to the already crowded streets and pavements of Kathmandu. Many of them became ill and died in the street because of the lack of nutritious food and medical treatment. Most of those who survive succumbed to using drugs and many turned into criminals. Very few of them have found opportunities to live a life as an ordinary citizen.

Although Maoist insurgency has come to an end giving way to peace, the time is not ripe yet for many people to resettle in their own village. In the case of the street children, the chances of going back to their village and restarting their old life are very low.

There are a number of international charities in Nepal working for the benefits of the street children. Of late most of them seem to focus more in creating awareness in the society and lobbying with the government, unfortunately leaving the children vulnerable while millions being spent on media and publicity for awareness. Happy Home not only joins these charities in their efforts as this may be helpful in the long run but it also takes the current plight of the street children into consideration and makes every possible effort to extend all possible help to them.

At present Happy Home is running two separate care centers for the street children. One is located in Dhapakhel, which houses fifteen children rescued from the streets of Kathmandu. The children here are fully taken care of their all basic needs of food, accommodation, education and healthcare. The other houses 45 rescued street children in a rented old home in one of the poorer quarters of Kathmandu. These children live with their mothers in a small room where at least they have a roof over their heads but the little money their mothers make from simple handicrafts is sometimes not enough to pay the rent and feed the children. Most of the children are not in good health; some are blind, some have jaundice, some have tuberculosis and some are suffering from severe malnutrition and carry multiple maladies. To stop them from further suffering, they immediately need proper shelter, food and medication.

Click here to see the children being supported by this project.

Funding and estimated cost of the project

The biggest challenge in running this project is raising the necessary funds to implement these activities. As Happy Home does not have a consistent, steady source of funds, we are completely dependent on sponsors like you to finance these projects. As a sponsor you can contribute in a number of ways:

• Contributing a sum of money on a monthly/yearly basis. You will receive periodic reports on the child's progress along with photographs.
• Making a one time lump sum contribution and then making further contributions whenever possible.
• Making any contributions in cash or in kind, especially providing any supplies which may be of benefit to the children or their mothers. Contributions in kind can be sent to Happy Home where they will then be distributed.