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Sonrisa Orphange Nepal Newsletter

02 May 2010

Dear Friends,

We wish you all a very Happy New Year 2067 (Bikram Sambat)!

We are very grateful for your generosity to Sonrisa which has allowed us to do our work. We hope for you continued support to Sonrisa and its children.

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This is Srijana, Lakpa, Saraswoti, Bindu, Jyoti and Dinesh in their first stage performance. You have to forgive poor video quality (It's from my phone)

This is a short clip of kids playing.

Picture Gallery

We have set up a flickr account for our picture gallery. We ran out of space on our web hosting account.

It's a New Year and start of new school session here in Nepal. Kids are very excited to get their text books and new school uniforms. We think it'll be a couple of months before the little ones' new text books will lose the cover.

Jwala is in 8th grade. Lakpa and Srijana are in 6th. Sandeep, Jaya, Kala, Saraswoti, Bindu are in 3rd grade. Kushal, Ramesh, Dinesh, Phula and Jyoti are in 2nd grade. Kriti and Ongchu are in Grade One.

We celebrated festival of Holi and Shivaratri with our volunteer Sarah. Bil took Lakpa, Srijana, Jwala, Saraswoti and Sarah to Kutumba Concert (Folk Instrumental) organized by Indian culture center. Kutumba is a wonderful band with their instrumental folk music and it was great for the children now that they are taking music lessons at home.
Pictures are on flickr.

We were really very happy that our dear friends and Sonrisa volunteer Sachiko and Akio were back for a couple of weeks. We went on hiking to Chobhar hill with Sachiko and Akio and it was bit smelly and dirty and little Ongchu got bus sick but it was lots of fun.
Pictures are on flickr.

Our good friends Wendy and Malcolm were back in town. We have a crafts workshop at sonrisa.
Pictures are on flickr.

We had several birthdays in the last couple of months. We also celebrated Sachiko and Bishnu’s birthdays together with the children(in March). Bindu is 8. Kushal is 7. Kriti is 6. Ramesh and Dinesh are 8. Sachiko is I’m not allowed to say (I think). Bishnu is umm….
There were cakes, singing and dancing and presents.

Music and Dance
Children’s schedule has gotten even busier since last month. They now have dance lessons, Violin, Flute, Vocal classes.
Dance : - Jyoti, Bindu, Lakpa, Saraswoti, Srijana, Jaya, Dinesh, Kriti
Vocal : - Kala, Phula, Sandeep, Jwala, Kushal, Ramesh, Wongchu
Viloin : - Jwala, Srijana, Saraswoti, Lakpa, Bindu
Flute : - Jyoti, Kushal, Ramesh, Dinesh, Jaya, Kala, Phula, Sandeep

We are looking for sponsors for each of the above activities. Please us if you would like to know more and/or wish to sponsor.

Pictures of 4th grade classes (ABC) of the school "L.Barzini" Orvieto who held Christmas concert we mentioned in our last newsletter.

"A Journey of Love & Unification from Mt. Everest"
PIANIST, COMPOSER, WRITER, PAINTER AND POET - ROMAYNE WHEELER'S concert tour, Spring 2010

We are very grateful to be part of this wonderful event. We would like to thank Mr. Romayne Wheeler and everyone involved in this project, CAP Nepal,Unification Movement Nepal, Global Nepali Student Council, Sandhya Sitaula, BSW students of St. Xavier’s College, Nepal Music Center.
This event raised us Rs.15,155/00
Also CELRRD (Centre for Legal Research and Resource Development) generously donated Rs. 5,000/00

We would like to thank everyone who donated, helped us and supported us.

Thank You

Cathy Ellis and Mickey, Lance Shepherd, Elisabeth Feuerhelm, Khagendra Raj Dhakal, Raju Baskota, Bhupal, Ashima, Bhugol, Sandhya, Ramesh, Ashima, Nisha, Umesh, Yogesh, Yasodha, Bhagwoti, Sachiko, Akio, Wendy, Malcom, Abhishek, Paruhang, Francesca, Sarah, Donna, Sekhar, Unification Movement Nepal, Global Nepali Student Council, Sandhya Sitaula, BSW students of St. Xavier’s College, Nepal Music Center, CELRRD, Bhagwoti, Yasodha, Bhupendra, Valley Film Academy, CAP Nepal.