We are very happy to inform you all that we've got a land propose to use for play ground . We would like to thanks Mr, Govinda gurung who provided it us.

We also thanks to everyone who has been supporting Sonrisa from the beginning and who join the venture later "we all together making the things different".

This month we welcomed our new family member (her name is Ramita) at Sonrisa. As we mentioned  in our previous news letter we did the same  last month to Anisha. Both girl they are settled very well with us, go to school, Anisha is in Grade 1 and Ramita is in grade 3 at Shivapuri Higher Secondary school where all the children's are studying.

Children had their first terminal exam and the result is out  they all did very well,our special boy Phula has improved a lots on his study, he has got good result and as well as the others.

After first terminal exam Children had short summer holiday, Our great friend (sister CA and David) took us to Cinema at City centre it's pretty modern and big shopping centre with movie theater .Children weren't  familiar with such a big mall they were like a bit lost but it was fantastic experience for everyone.

"Third Angela's afternoon"

"One year ago my family lost my 33 year old niece, our wonderful Angela.She was a bright star in our world. Her profession and her passion was taking care of children and as a result, David and I have honored her memory by dedicating one afternoon each visit to Nepal to having fun with the children of Sonrisa Orphanage. These days are called “Angela’s Afternoons”.This past Wednesday was our third Angela’s Afternoon. We hired a big van and 15 of the children plus two Aunties, two uncles (including Bishnu), plus David, myself, and three colleagues from Canada all piled in and drove to the cinema. Who knew that traveling in a big comfortable new van “guaranteed smooth ride” would have made so many children so car sick??? Turns out the children have no problem in the normal taxi’s of Kathmandu- the one’s with no suspension and bumps and jolts galore; but put them in a smooth riding vehicle, go over 50 km per hour and take cover. Faces turned pale, then green. Luckily Bishnu had a supply of plastic bags and after a kind of squishy 30 minutes we made it to the theatre (tipping the van driver extra for his –ahem- clean up).

Kids are resilient though and once in the door of the giant new shopping mall restless tummies were immediately forgotten. All in all 24 tickets were purchased and despite being 20 minutes late in arriving we managed to find our assigned seats in the dark. This cinema is one of the new deluxe movies theatres in Kathmandu and the film was a Hindi “boy bonding” flic where three guys go on a road trip to Spain in advance of one of them getting married.  This is the new generation of Bollywood movies with the requisite gorgeous Indian actors, love stories, and musical numbers, but set outside India and everyone wears western clothing. The screen was enormous and the Sonrisa kids were soon completely captivated.

Intermission arrived and 15 bags of popcorn and pepsi’s were passed around. The movie built to it’s happy ending with the boys having bonded by addressing each of their deepest fears: scuba diving, paragliding and running with the bulls. Not sure what the children actually took away from the plot but they seemed to be enthralled with the images and music.

While it was a kind of rough start, the third Angela’s Afternoon ended happily with 15 children sent home (IN TAXI’S!!) with chocolate cookies (bought by Jason) and instructions not to eat them until AFTER getting home".

The land which we got recently back yard of Sonrisa for purpose of play ground, but for the time being  we've decided to plant rice to get revenue which is growing very well, Anyway,we can't use it until monsoon be gone, by the time  monsoon will be over then rice is ready to harvest. Right away we'll be  using it for play ground containing mini Food ball pitch and Volley ball court.

The land history it wasn't in use for long time, piled of garbage from neighbourhood and construction, so a lots of work to clean up, we were very lucky to have volunteer of Prof. Dr. Carol Ann, Dr. Bibiana, Dr. Jason.Sandhya Basini Sitaula, Bikash Karki Ramesh Karki, medical students from Canada, medical student from PAHAS archangel comunity developmentre centre (ACDC) and BSW students from X-Xavier collage. We thank very much for the heavy physical work on that day.

We would also like thanks to Sandya Sitaula to getting a lot’s of gifts to kids & momo party at Sonrisa  for her first wedding anniversary.