Aanandit Charity Centre

ACC works with community groups and children themselves to plan and carry out changes so that more children will gain opportunities to fulfil their potential. This year, we are able to support 91 children 70 were general scholarships, 10 were for Dalit (low caste) students, and 10 children with disabilities received scholarships and 1 single women for their education and bright future ahead. We are very glad and thankful to our great God for all the sponsor children had passed their grade with good percentage. Out of this, more children had passed their (SEE) school Education Exam in good percentage and grade. We are very happy to see the progress and changes life of these hard working children.

Our Staff regularly follow up on our sponsored children, visit their families and schools to encourage and evaluate the progress. ACC project activities in communities benefit not just children registered for sponsorship but all children and their families in that community. ACC has various other projects which contributes for the whole community development. Please visit our main page to know more about them. This year we are supporting children from 3 districts of Nepal, namely Lalitpur, Sindhuli, and Sindhupalchowk.

We empower community schools where our sponsored children go with participating to develop libraries, building play yard, conduct educational and fun-filled activities, provide stationeries, computers, printers, and so on.

Below you can read about some children that are awaiting sponsors.

Name: Anamol Sunar
Grade: Nursery
Age: 4
School: Navajyoti Sec. School
Health: He is healthy

4-year-old Anmol is under weight for his age but is a smart and active boy. He loves talking and enjoys singing at the church.

His mother Kalasha and father Tilak are from Tulsipur-17 of the Dang district about 12 and a half hours from Kathmandu. Anmol who grew up in a poor and Dalit (untouchable) family. The Dalit community belong to the backward class in Nepal. Despite the new law, social stigma and discrimination is still clearly practiced in most parts of Nepal. They are not allowed to enter into anyone’s house. Everyone sees and acts differently.

The family is really poor and needy. They have come to work in the brick kiln in Lalitpur because they only have a small piece of land to cultivate in their village. There are 1600 Brick Kilns in Nepal according to The Kathmandu Post, 3^rd May 2020. The lack of livelihood in the villages forces parents to migrate along with their children to work at the brick kilns. There are dozens of families from his village in this brick kiln who have come just for the six month brick making season.

Like Anmol’s family many are in need of care and support. Most of these families rely on their small pieces of land and laboring in other people’s fields. Their own grain only lasts 2 to 4 months. “There was nothing else to do in the village” says Anmol’s mother. Almost all their neighborhoods are in the same situation.

When the situation worsened, they came to Kathmandu valley, like many others, in search of a job and a better life.  Getting a job in the city is still a struggle though. With the hope of getting a job deteriorating and fear increasing that they may not be able to educate their son they tried the brick kiln.  Anmol’s father and mother were able to get a job there. This opportunity gave them immense joy. Finally, they could feed their children and educate them. However, the father got 70 pounds a month and the mother got less than 2 pence for each brick she makes. She can make 300-400 bricks in a good day. Their basic needs were met but education for their two children is still a struggle.

Our help for Anmol will give joy to his family and a bright future for him. Life in the brick kiln has its own pain and toughness. They are happy and hopeful even though there is no supply of very basic facilities. All the pain is normal for them. We want to show God’s love and help them to dream. Lack of support may force Anmol to make bricks in few years’ time and drop out from school.

Thank you!

Six needy children are selected for scholarship from here

Name: Arpana Nyasur
Grade: 4
Age: 9
School: Shree Navajyoti Sec. School
Health: She is healthy

Arpana is 8 years old and studies in class 4 at Shree Navajyoti Secondary School. She loves to dance and sing. Arpana’s house is in the Makwanpur district and there are 4 members of her family. There’s is an old house in the village with no land for cultivation. Archana’s parents were running the household with much pain and hardship, after giving birth to two children life became unbearable.

It was not possible to get good jobs because the parents had very little education. Income just from daily wages could no longer provide for the growing family. Their poor economic conditions forced them, like many others, to leave their village home.

Moving on didn’t immediately bring positive change to the family income and the situation got worse and they suffered more. They neither got a room to live in nor a good job. Looking for a place to work and a place to live led them to the brick kiln. This job has put food on their plates but it is still hard to educate their poor precious children. For this very reason, Arpana’s dad went to work in Qatar by taking a loan. He is working hard in the hot sun only to pay back the loan they have taken. Her mother makes bricks but is still struggling to pay for school expenses.

There are many families who migrate to the city due to lack of opportunity in their villages. Hundreds of families move to work in the brick kilns for six months a year. According to The Kathmandu Post, May 3^rd 2020, there are 1600 brick kilns in Nepal. This sector increased after the 2015 earthquakes as bricks are in high demand. They do provide jobs for people but the environment is unhealthy, with very poor living conditions and no basic needs met for the children.

If you are led to support Arpana, a sponsorship of 15 pounds or $25 per month will give him an opportunity to get an education.

See our donation page for details.

Thank you!

Name: Asali Lo
Grade: 1
Age: 8
School: Shree Navajyoti Sec. School
Health: She is healthy

Asali means a good person. She studies in class 1 of Shree Navajyoti Secondary School. Looking at Asali’s school results, she is doing well at her studies and wants to continue her studies without any stress and financial problems.

She is a very nice and shy girl. She is from Hetaunda-Makwanpur, but now she lives in Lalitpur. She comes from a poor family. When there was no wealth and land in the village and it was difficult to earn a living, Aslai’s family left everything and their place of birth and came to Kathmandu.

Here both her mother and father work in a brick kiln. Their work is seasonal and they can only work there for 6 months a year. They become unemployed after 6 months. In that 6 month, they work in other people’s fields.

Her parents get 1.25 paisa for 1 brick while working in the brick kiln. The low income makes it difficult for Asali’s parents to support the family and earn enough for food. Sometimes they are unable to buy school materials for the children. This family has been living in a brick kiln where there is no good place to sleep well, no clean water to drink and an unhealthy environment. There are many families who do not send their children to school and force them to work in the brick kilns.

But Asali’s parents are different from others.  Just because they are uneducated, they don’t want their children to grow up like them in an uneducated and bad environment.

There are many families who migrate to the city due to lack of opportunity in their villages. Hundreds of families move to work in the brick kilns for six months a year. According to The Kathmandu Post, May 3^rd 2020, there are 1600 brick kilns in Nepal. This sector increased after the 2015 earthquakes as bricks are in high demand. They do provide jobs for people but the environment is unhealthy, with very poor living conditions and no basic needs met for the children.

The need is huge but by our support the children will be encouraged to study and have a better future than their parents. As God leads us we may do more to support these precious lives.

See our donation page to help.

Thank you!

Name: Ashish Gharti Magar
Grade: Nursery
Age: 7

School Shree Navajyoti Sec. School

Health: He is healthy

Rolpa is one of the worst districts in Nepal in terms of health and education. Rolpa district has become a ‘Maoist stronghold’ of the Nepal Communist Party. Twenty one years ago, there was a major war between Maoist guerrillas and the army near the Rolpa-Pyuthan border. Many people lost their lives, homes and families at that time. After the Great War, it was difficult for the people of Rolpa to live.

At that time, there was no vehicular road in Rolpa, so the residents had to walk for at least 2 months to bring goods from Kathmandu. People were unemployed, had no skills and no cultivable land. The grain crop that came from the land was enough for 3 months. Due to the large number of families, many children and pregnant women died prematurely due to various diseases caused by lack of food.

Now as the local government has got authority after being a federal government, some improvements have been made in Rolpa. The roads are being constructed making lives a little better in many ways.

Ashish is from Rolpa. His father has some education. Being a man, his father was allowed to go to school but his mother has never been to school.

Due to the family situation, Ashish’s father went to Qatar to work for 5 years. Within 15 days of reaching Qatar, he started to get sick. His father was forced to return to Nepal after 15 days due to illness. He had taken a loan to go to Qatar. The family did not have the capacity to stay in the village to pay that debt. So Ashish’s family left the village and went to live in Kathmandu. After coming to Kathmandu, he neither found a place to stay nor any job. They had to face much more difficult situations. A relative asked Ashish’s father if he wanted to work in brick factory. Without thinking anything, he replied that he would do it. Now, both Ashish’s father and mother are working at brick factory and paying back the loan.

If you are led to support Ashish, a sponsorship of 15 pounds or $25 per month will give him an opportunity to get an education.

See our donation page for details.

Thank you so much!

Name: Dima Syangtan
Grade: 4
Age: 9
School: Shree Navajyoti Sec. School
Health: She is healthy

Dima’s family came from the Makwanpur district. Now the family of five are living in Jharuwarai of Lalitpur district. She has one sister and one brother. She is a very diligent girl in her studies and likes to go to school and read a lot. However, her family is financially weak. There is little land in the village and the grain they grow is not enough even for 3 months.

As a result, her family came to Kathmandu for work. Both mother and father work in a brick factory. They are illiterate and earn little and are not able to provide all the basic things for their children. The brick kiln work is only for 6 months, after that the family is unemployed for 6 months.

From the looks of it, this family seems to be in a lot of trouble and it is very difficult for them to educate and take care of their 3 children. If we support this family, we think Dima will do better in her education.

There are many families who migrate to the city due to lack of opportunity in their villages and hundreds of families move to work in the brick kilns for six months a year. According to The Kathmandu Post, May 3^rd 2020, there are 1600 brick kilns in Nepal. This sector increased after the 2015 earthquakes as bricks are in high demand. They do provide jobs for people but the environment is unhealthy, with very poor living conditions and no basic needs met for the children.

See our donation page for details.

Thank you!

Name: Rabin Moktan
Grade: L.K.G
Age: 6
School: Shree Navajyoti Sec. School
Health: He is healthy

Rabin is the only son of Sita and Kumar Moktan. Their ancestral home is in Hetaunda. Due to financial problems at home, they are currently living in Jharuwarashi in Lalitpur. There is only one old house in their name in the village. As there is nothing in the village, this family earns a daily living by working in the brick kiln in Lalitpur. It has become difficult to raise a family and meet their basic needs from their earnings. They want to help make Rabin a better person but they fear that they will not be able to send their son to school regularly in the coming days. In Nepal thousands of children are forced to drop out of school due to the poor financial status of their parents and lack of good income. Robin is just one such example out of many families who are now forced to face the problems.

There are many families who migrate to the city due to lack of opportunity in their villages. Hundreds of families move to work in the brick kilns for six months a year. According to The Kathmandu Post, May 3^rd 2020, there are 1600 brick kilns in Nepal. This sector increased after the 2015 earthquakes as bricks are in high demand. They do provide jobs for people but the environment is unhealthy, with very poor living conditions and no basic needs met for the children.

The need is huge but by our support the children will be encouraged to study and have a better future than their parents. As God leads us we may do more to support these precious lives.

See our donation page for details.

Thank you!

Name: Rohit Gole
Grade: 2
Age: 7
School: Shree Buddha Bhagwan Sec. School
Health: He is healthy

Rohit was born to father Raju Gole and mother Manju Syangtan from Makwanpur District. The relationship between mother and father was good. After the birth of Rohit, the relationship between his parents started to change. There were quarrels over small things. Father got into drinking heavily and started to abuse his mother. Daily beating and dispute was getting worst. His mother used to cry.

The father’s abuse pushed his mother to marry with another guy and left them. This tragedy was worst in itself but situation got worst for Rohit when his father also left home and till now no one knows his whereabouts.

Poor Rohit became like an orphan. He was taken into custody by his grandfather who lives in Lalitpur as there were no one in his own village to look after him.

Now he lives with his grandfather who is not getting younger and has no income. He also has hearing problem and can only speak their tribal language.

Without external support for this family, Rohit can’t continue his education. He is in grade 2 now. His grandfather has taken a loan to admit him to school. Our support will enable this family to draw a better future for this young boy. Their house is made of mud and zinc sheets. They have very basic supplies of daily needing things.

Thank you!

Russell Goodburn meeting with his sponsor children

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