Project report
Orphan health checks, Pokhara
Nepal
, RUN BY:
Global Hands Charity
| STATUS:
COMPLETED
Open wide! A dental check up for a girl from the Pokhara Orphanage
AUD 505
Raised from 194 people
These pictures show the kids at the Pokhara Orphanage undergoing their eye and dental health checks. No doubt, it was a first for many of them!
(Project Report posted: June 4, 2008)
The project will cover:
- Visit from local eye and dental specialists to check for glaucoma and other problems and to ensure teeth are properly developing in the 30 orphans at the Destitute Children’s Home in Pokhara, Nepal. ($360 AUD)
- Additionally, an extensive first aid kit will be purchased to keep at the orphanage. ($140 AUD)
Project Aims:
- Firstly, to provide essential health care to the students as none of them visit a doctor or dentist until there’s a problem.
- Secondly, to educate them about health and hygiene to reduce the incidence of illness.
About the orphanage:
There are 30 orphans between the ages of 5 and 14 at the Destitute Children’s Home; some have lost their parents in the 12 year political upheaval in Nepal, others to disease and a few to the natural and regular occurrence of landslides which sometimes take out almost an entire community. Located in Pokhara, the orphanage is currently searching for a larger home that can provide housing stability and land to grow vegetables to improve the kids' diet and hopefully provide a modest income to meet the basic needs of the orphanage.
Other ways to get involved with this project:
Visit www.globalhandscharity.com to
- Make a donation
- Contribute Health & Hygiene info/fact posters
- Donate your time, especially if you have medical skills
How was it this funded?
Thanks to hundreds of tiny donations from these online businesses and their customers.
- ***WorldNomads.com.au
- ***WorldNomads.co.nz
- World Nomads USA
- World Nomads Canada
- www.WorldNomads.com
- ***World Nomads UK
Global Hands is a “hands on” charity network guided by the philosophy of 'teaching people how to fish rather than giving them a fish'. Currently working with two schools in West Africa and an orphanage in Nepal, the focus is on education and facilitating small sideline opportunites such as vegetable gardens that can improve local diets and provide modest incomes.