Project Update -- Humla House

The Humla House is a small children's home we started about five years ago for conflict displaced girls from Humla. Humla is the furthest northwest district of Nepal and is inaccessable by road. Only one percent of the land can be cultivated, causing regular food shortages. During the conflict many children were brought to Kathmandu, where they were often placed in overcrowded orphanages that could not even afford to feed all the children much less send them to school.

In 2005 we opened a home for eight of these girls. They attend school regularly and are making good progress. This year some of them were able to skip a grade as they are catching up quickly. Later on I will try to find some pictures from when the girls first came, so you can see the difference. In the beginning they were malnourished and suffered from health problems, but as you can see from the pictures below they've grown so much in the last five years and are much happier and more confident as well.

Two of the original eight girls went back to their families, so last year we took in two more underpriviledged girls from different districts.

Lily with the girls, their house mother, and her daughter

enjoying new story books