As always, thank you to our Ama Ghar family around the world for your powerful thoughts and prayers – all of our children who were injured in the landslide have been discharged from the hospital and are being cared for at home. To us, this is proof of the healing power of love. …
Rice Planting Can Be Fun
It’s a pre-monsoon tradition – the planting of baby rice plants into our flooded and muddy field. The children get multiple benefits: they get to play in the mud, learn a new skill and then eat the results! Enjoy the photos.
A Busy Spring at Ama Ghar
We have had a very hot spring season with many forest fires in the Godavari area near our home. Luckily we got some early rain storms that helped with the fires – and in between the heat and the rain we harvested our potatoes! With the start of the new school year, the children were excited to wear their new …
Ama Ghar Wins Social Welfare Award
In May, Ama Ghar received an award from the Upreti Social Welfare Committee, which was presented to Country Director Bonnie Ellison in appreciation of the good work Ama Ghar has done for the children of Nepal. It was especially heart warming to be honored by a local group that had many social endeavors to choose from. Sharing the award ceremony was …
Confidence Building Camp
Although many of our older ones have left Ama Ghar for the wider world, we are still managing 16 teenagers who are getting closer to making life decisions and eventually leaving Ama Ghar themselves, a scary prospect for many of them. During the holiday, four boys and twelve girls engaged in a three day camp that offered many challenges as well …
Dental Visits Can Be Fun!
We give thanks for our amazing Dr. Sneeda – a wonderful dentist who takes great joy in working with children. She makes even dental work fun, so there is always excitement among the children when they know Dr. Sneeda is on her way. A few weeks ago, Dr. Sneeda arrived to give the children fluoride treatments as part of her …
A Thank You Party for Rob
On Saturday, March 12, the Ama Foundation Board held their annual in-person board meeting at the fantastic Marin County home of board member Fred Doar. Following the board meeting there was a “thank you” party for our outgoing Board Chair, Rob Sanders. L to R in photo above: Former Board Chair Paramesh Adhikari; Current Board Chair Suyesh Karki; Communications Director …
Spring has Sprung at Ama Ghar!
Spring has arrived at Ama Ghar, along with beautiful blooming trees and healthy plants in our garden! February was a month of games, crafts, new books and outdoor fun – some of the Ama Ghar children even won medals at their school Sports Day. …
An Ama Ghar Visitor’s Story
Enjoy this partial blog post from Ama Ghar visitor Matt Mason. Matt spent a great deal of time with the children, doing tutoring, sports, activities and generally hanging out with them, much to their complete delight: “…I stayed eighteen more days at Ama Ghar, but with a renewed sense of exuberance and love for the kids that increasingly grew more …
Four beloved sisters leave the nest…
We are so proud when our Ama Ghar young adults graduate from their transition year at the Youth Apartment in Kathmandu to leave the program full-time as self-supporting adults. Four of them left the apartment right before Christmas, which made room for Pratima, Pabita, Sabita and Rama to move from our Ama Ghar home to the apartment. This is an …