Project 001:
Kathmandu Children's Home (May & June 2007)
| Before | After | Comments | Cost |
| Please click on image for larger version... | 164 children living in Central Kathmandu | ||
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The children only had one sheet per bed, and so when it was wet or there were not enough staff to wash the sheets, they stayed on the beds, for weeks at a time (maybe months). We replaced the old sheets with two new sheets per bed. We had to wash them first |
$540
$56 |
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Well they needed pillows too. Are you wondering why the pillows are so cheap? We need less pillows than kids, because they sleep two or sometimes three in one bed and they share one pillow. | $216 |
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And pillow slips. Even when you manufacture them yourself for $1.17 each it still adds up when you need 340 of them. Did we buy too many, yes, we still have the odd spare pillowslip in storage in Kathmandu for a rainy day. | $398 |
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Some children had nowhere to store their few belongings. We manufactured these bags locally boosting employment. The bag maker gave us a special price because it was charitable work and gave a 5 year guarantee on the zipper. |
$560 |
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The boys slept in horrific conditions under a very hot tin roof. It was sweltering in there. We tried to find insulation like we have in Australia but it did not exist, and so we built a thatched roof with a bamboo frame on top of the corrugated iron roof. This made the room much cooler and solved the problem with local materials at a quarter of our original estimate. |
$590 |
| Total Project Cost: | $2360 | ||
Small Photo Gallery...
After Thoughts...
We learned a lot through this exercise. It brought tears to our eyes when we were presented with the “thank you”artwork made by the children. Like all children, they are wonderful, precious and innocent and they deserve to have a hopeful future.