Homer International Club Fundraiser
Isabell Berthelsen
Homer’s International Club is having their annual fundraiser, and they need your support. Every year the club supports an international project, this year the International Club will support two teenage girls that live in an orphanage in Nepal by helping continue their education. The two girls have just finished their first ten years of school and are now only missing two years of school before finishing. The two girls are Mina Sapkota, who is nineteen years old, and Kalpana Baram, who is eighteen years old. They both like to read, knit, hang out at cafes, and drink hot cocoa.
Mina and Kalpana are a part of the orphanage NHOCCA (Nepal Highlander Orphan Children's Care Association), which is located in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu. NHOCCA is a support organization for the orphaned children of the Nepal Highlands. The primitive and very poor conditions in the Nepal Highlands have caused a great number of neglected and orphaned children, who are without access to food, shelter, medicine, or education. So NHOCCA was established in 2003, and Vibeke Pedersen is the Danish founder of the organization. She became a part of the organization when the first children were brought into the orphanage at the establishment in April, 2003. Vibeke follows a lot of the children’s process and development, and she’s also responsible for keeping contact with Danish sponsors.
At the end of April, 2015, Nepal was hit by a major earthquake. The great earthquake destroyed a lot of buildings and injured a lot of people. NHOCCA was hurt as well and they had a hard time getting the orphanage rebuilt because of the many reconstruction tasks all over Nepal. The orphanage got help from a lot of unskilled people, and after a long time the orphanage was repainted and rebuilt with new bathrooms and a new water tank. More damaged than the actual building were the orphanage's children, but the orphanage has done a lot of work with trauma redemption to heal and help the children. Today, everybody is still affected by the terrible experience, but they are developing in a positive direction.
NHOCCA, Mina, and Kalpana need your support to continue their future. Please donate money and spare coins to Homer’s International Club. You can donate by contacting a club member or visiting Mrs. Zimmerman’s room, and by donating to the project you will receive a very nice HIC sticker.
