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One of my favorite events each year in Nepal is the annual Parent's Day Talent Show at Orchid Garden. First, it is great to see the number of parents who attend the show. For many of the parent's who are day-laborers, it means a day off work, and hence a loss of income to attend, yet they are so proud of what their children...

Each year The Mountain Fund, through our program, The Mountain Volunteer hosts approx. 100 volunteers in Nepal. Orchid Garden Nepal is the most loved of all our volunteer placement locations. This past fall a volunteer from the USA, Alexandra, traveled to Nepal and spent two weeks working at Orchid Garden and caring for the...

Shari Davis & Ellen Currin are InTheField Travelers with GlobalGiving who are visiting our partners’ projects throughout Nepal. Here is their “Postcard” from their most recent visit to Orchid Garden in Nepal:  “This is my dream!” These were the words of greeting from Bina Basnet as we...

Valeska, a volunteer at Mountain Fund recently visited Orchid Garden and shared her experience in an article she submitted to The Reporter. The article entitled " A day care that changes lives" ran as a full page piece with 2 photos in May. The reporter is a weekly news publication in Nepal. The copy of the article we...

This month we had a volunteer team of twelve from Rocky Vista Medical College in Colorado visit Orchid Garden. These third and fourth year students, along with their professors gave full physical exams to each and every child, all 140 of them, over the course of two days. I was really impressed with how complete the exams...

WInter is closing in on Kathmandu and for many of the children, too poor to buy a jacket themselves, we will, thanks to your donations and support soon be ordering in enough sweatshirts to provide one to each of them. We'll also be able to buy some good, warm blankets for the nursery. Many thanks to our supporters. As soon...

Winter is setting in and one of our biggest concerns is protecting the kids health by keeping them warm. Few homes in Kathmandu have any heat source and nightime temps can get into the 30's, brrrrr.  It's necessary to keep a warm jacket and cap on nearly all the time and at bed time, one wants the heaviest blanket that...

Greetings from Orchid Garden Nepal! From April 2011, we have begun a Grade 1 at our Orchid Garden School which was previously only a preschool. We now have 174 children at OGN with classes from 8am until parents pick their children up as late as 6pm in the evening. We have also recently added some older children to our...

I never heard a better rendition of Old MacDonald's Farm, complete with face-masks for oink oinks and moo moos. I never saw a happier, prouder bunch of parents in my life either. The parents, all day-laborers in Kathmandu, some of the poorest and hardest working folks you can find had come to watch their children sing,...

Hello friends, We at the Orchid Garden continue to promote primary education among Nepal's poorest families and we thank you for your terrific support thus far! We wanted to let you know about an incredible opportunity to raise funds and friends for our daycare center in Kathmandu, Nepal. From October 12th to October...

Great news, friends! Because of your help, the Orchid Garden of Nepal has completed construction of its preschool addition. The new facility will host 40 children and prepare them for attendance in Nepali public schools. Modeled as a head-start program, the Orchid Garden Preschool will improve the lagging literacy rates...

Bill Brower is a Field Program Officer with GlobalGiving who is visiting our partners’ projects throughout South and Southeast Asia. On May 3rd he visited the Orchid Garden daycare center, an organization The Mountain Fund sends volunteers to in Kathmandu, Nepal. His “Postcard” from the visit: I love meeting with...

During the last couple of months Bina Basnet, Mountain Fund volunteers and Orchid Garden Nepal’s mothers have worked very hard. Now Orchid Garden Nepal’s Preschool is finished and on May 17th it was inaugurated. 100 more underprivileged children in Kathmandu will now receive preschool and primary education while their...