Missions

We prepare their future in pursuing the following missions:

• Lodging: a homely and safe environment.
• Food: twice a day and lunch.
• Health care: regularly health check-ups and basic medicines.
• Education: access to different level of school and university.
• Well being: clothing, bedding and toiletries
• Family links: Keeping in touch with their relatives and visits during the holidays.
• Religion: Christian education for children through prayers and church attendance on Saturdays.
• Cultural access: Library, excursions, music and movies.
• Preparing their future: vocational trainings for self-employment opportunities.

* This organization must be respect the rights of children and follow up with the international law regarding children, any time and anywhere.

Grace Home: children ready for school, staff and volunteers.

Actions

Grace Home acts in pursuing of the mentioned vision and missions. The committee manages various actions according to their priority.

• Homely environment

• Food: We provide meals twice a day as well as a lunch. That is consist in the Nepali traditional meal: dhal (lentilsoup), bath (rice) and tarkari (vegetable: potatoes, cauliflower, spinach...). Anytime, the children can access to drinking water (jar) or have tea. Actually, the vegetables depend of the season as well as our financial resources. Indeed, we notice a lack of the nutritional foods, like meat, fruit and dairy product, which our present resources cannot answer.

• Bedding and clothing: The children are accommodated into two rooms (boys and girls). Actually there are no enough beds for all children because of the size of our offices. Their rooms are equipped with warm blankets and storage. It is mainly by the donations that we can provide summer and winter clothes.

• Well Being: We learn to the children to have goods hygiene habits, in taking shower every two days, and brushing teeth twice a day. For that, we try to maintain the stock of toiletries and equipment (soap, shampoo, towels, toothbrush...).

• Education

• Formal education: Grace Home main goal is to provide an access to the education as soon as possible. Thus, thanks to our St Grace School we get the opportunity to send our children there, from the class playgroup to the class one. The children follow a formal school program, near from the shelter and without any fees.

For the next level of school, we try to send them to a boarding school (primary, secondary level.).Actually, one of the difficulties faced by Grace Home is to provide a full support for the school fees and equipments. In order to make sure for the studies, we wanted to develop  a long term sponsoring. Finally, we used to organize a special tuition for the homework. Thanks to the help of Nepali and foreign volunteers we maintain a daily tuition for our children as well as for some helpless children of the St Grace School.

• Religious education: As the members are Christian, we wish to educate children thanks to the Christian way. In morning or evening, we used to take few minutes for praying and singing. Through this practice the children adopt good and right behaviors for the daily.That meeting is also an occasion to talk with children about various things, like a family meeting! Then, the children are attended on church on Saturday on where they can follow the "Sunday class".

• Health

Currently, the children are in a range of age where they are more vulnerable, especially by the cold. For that, we try hard to provide them a safe environment (clothing, wellbeing...) and some non-prescription medicine (vitamin, syrup...) from our small stock of first aid.

• Spare time

Because of the numerous governmental holidays or festival as well as the frequency of the strike, children have a lot of holidays! In this case or on Saturdays, we used to organized special activities in Grace Home (carrimboard competition, games and challenge, manuals activities...) or outside activities (picnic program, cultural visit, excursions in zoo or park…). Actually, those outside activities depend of our resources or  the support provided by the volunteers and visitor. At last, the various donations allowed us to arrange a library (Nepali and English story books), some games and equipement for manual activities.

Paint activity on Saturday

Resources

• Material resource

Step by step, GH acquired some basic equipment, which allowed children  and staff to access for little bit more comfort for the daily life. Most of these resources came from the volunteer's projects. The stake is to maintain it as well it is possible.

Office: Grace Home takes place in Mhepi area, Kathmandu.Our vice president is lending us a piece of land of 3024 square fit on which we build the shelter. Grace Home started with the minimum available and no equipment was present at the time. Fortunelty, our development and the different projects done allowed us to improved the shelter's environment.

Today, our offices offer:

– 4 rooms (boys, girls, staff and volunteers), equipped with beds and cupboards.

– 1 kitchen and dinner room, equipped wit kitchen utensil.

– 2 toilets and 1 bathroom.

– 1 office, equipped with computer and printer.

– 1 playroom, equipped with library and games.

Water: From our land, we get water pumped from Katmandu's pipe system. Actually this water is really impure and dirty (condensed in sulfur). We only use it for washing dishes and clothes or for toilet uses. Then we use a water tank filter (running by electricity and chemicals) for the kitchen uses and to have wash. Finally, we try hard to provide drinking water (jar) in order to make sure the children health.

Electricity: We get a electrical line from our neighbor house. Although, thanks to the instalation of solar and electrical panel (volunteer project), we get emergency light for each room.

• Human resources

Human support forms a pillar of our organization. Indeed, our shelter is mainly running by Nepali volunteers, who some of them work with us since the beginning.

Four staff members live permanently in Grace Home. The director, a cook, a grandmother and a security guard are woking since the beginning. It should be noted that the staff  have backgrounds similar to the children (orphan, broken families, helpless). Actually, they more like members of the “Grace family” than real staff. This aspect represents an essential part of creating a family environment.

One important factor of our story that has become quite apparent is the fact that without the help of volunteers (donation, time, financial support, suggestions…) our improvement and projects would never be realize. Nepali, foreigner and also visitor perform a substantial work and we are very thankful to them.

Nepalese volunteers: There are friends, students or believer from church. They help us especially for St Grace School, as permanent teachers. In Grace Home, they help us with various things (child care, tuition teachers, administration...).

Foreign volunteers: The voluntary service of foreigners is frequent in GH and have proven to be rich in experience for volunteers, children and staff. Based on the length of their service as well as their interest, they can be involved in Grace Home in several ways(educative mission, care children, organize various activities… ).

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• Financial resources

As a non-profit social organization, the committee had to bring the financial income for the Grace Home functioning, since the Nepalese Government did not provide any contribution. The day-to-day running of the shelter is possible thanks to the private donation.

From the beginning until now, the main financial source has been from the personal support of its members. Today, because of our development there are more and more needs for support. It’s through the arrival of local and international donations that we find supplementary support. As to give an idea of the needs required to reach a good balance in all the points (food, education, health, staff…) the table forecast budget 2009 is given.