Ama Ghar’s story began over 20 years ago with a visionary Nepalese founder, Shrawan Nepali, who grew up in a Nepali orphanage and had a dream of providing a loving home and education for disadvantaged children in Nepal. He and a committed group of people banded together to create Ama Ghar – which means Motherly Home. In 2001, after hiring …
Full Circle Philanthropy With Bonnie
Bonnie’s life has taken her all around the world — she has lived in the United States, Europe, Libya, and Nepal, just to name a few. In 1961, Bonnie enrolled in the inaugural class at the Leysin American School in Switzerland. LAS has a mission to educate, nurture, and create caring world citizens. Bonnie is that mission personified, and her …
Ama Ghar’s World Cup Fever
Even though they had to stay up until 1:00 a.m. to see it, the Ama Ghar kids flocked to the World Cup Finals! They painted their faces and held up flags to root on their teams… they had reasons to cheer for both sides. They love the Three Mums, our wonderful supporters in the UK, so many of the kids …
A Vacation Full of Activities!
Once their final exams were over, the Ama Ghar kids went into vacation mode! They are headed back to school in late February, so they were trying to pack as much fun as possible into the last days of lockdown. We have a new soccer net, so the boys are delighted and are scheduling daily soccer matches. We’re also doing …
Learning to Climb with Anish
We are so lucky to have a professional guide and mountain climber, Anish Lama, among our alumni. He is a trekking guide and also teaches emergency medical training to first responders. Luckily for us, Anish arranged for three days of climbing for all Ama Ghar residents. Each day a different group of 10 or 11 children went to climb in …
Our Intrepid Trekkers
Our grownup Ama Ghar girls Samjhana and Akriti had a big adventure recently! They were invited to join a trek to the Kapuche Glacier Lake – a gorgeous spot in the Annapurnas not too far from Pokhara. At 8,681 feet, Kapuche is the lowest altitude of the virgin glacier lakes. Not hard to get to – and the scenery is …
A Guardian Angel
Last month we heard from our partner, friend and amazing member of our Ama Ghar family, Kathleen Moldovan. She was heartbroken because Katherine Nemeth (Kay), who had been a champion of Moldovan Academy, Kathleen’s school in the San Francisco Bay Area, had passed away. Kathleen asked to work with us to find a very special way to honor Kay. Read …
Life Goes on and Ama Ghar is Hot, Hot, Hot!
The children are still hard at work during their Zoom classes, but when they’re not, they’re lucky because they can be outside in our beautiful valley. Everyone has their own way of overcoming the stifling summer heat – the girls pick mulberries with their big sister Meena and the boys built themselves a pool out of cement blocks and USAID …
Learning to Love Lockdown
First of all, we want to let you know that we think about our global Ama Ghar family every day and pray and meditate that you are all safe and well. Part of being a family is caring and that caring goes both ways. Thanks for all you do for us and we send you hugs from Nepal. While we …
A Happy Holi at Home!
Holi is everyone’s favorite holiday at Ama Ghar. Many of the older kids came home to celebrate by throwing wiping and swiping tika powder at their family members – including Bonnie Auntie! Enjoy this family photo album.