We give heartfelt thank you to Ms Devika Gautam for her very kind gift of Eye checkup camp at our Annapurna Children Home. Every child and mothers’ eyes were checked in a safe and hygienic way! Devika's BM/TPB Foundation Eye Care center provided all the technical support. It is truly a blessing and gift to have our children's eyes properly tested and checked, especially in this time where we have to do so much online study with technology. And thank you Devika for giving our children inspiration what career choice they might have as well! Thank you from our heart to your whole team. We are particularly encouraged when successful Nepalese visit and support our children as it gives them culturally appropriate inspiration for their own future lives.

With great JOY we celebrated the wedding of our eldest daughter Aasha. “Dearest Aasha, we are so proud of all your achievements, graduating school, completing your nursing qualification, and finding a permanent job nursing in the hospital and now this next big step in your adult life - marriage. We all wish the very best for you and your husband. We celebrate you and shower you and your beloved with love and good wishes!”

Aasha was one of our first children at our Annapurna Self Sustaining Children Home. We have supported her through childhood education and then 3+ years of nursing training. Now we witness Aasha successful and respected in her career and embarking upon marriage with a lovely man from the local village. We truly feel a sense of full circle, especially as since her nursing graduation Aasha has returned and directly inspires our other children, always available for medical support and joining our festive days and helping out on her days off. This is truly a sustainable outcome!

Happy Deepawali to all our friends we wish you and your families a wonderful celebration! We share here some pictures from our Laxmi puja, with our beautiful Laxmi's. This is one part of Nepal’s major festival days that celebrates connection and reminds of life’s abundance that we need to invite into our lives. This ritual engages the youngest girls, representing innocence and curiosity, to walk barefoot through the blessing pathway to create a doorway for Laxmi, the goddess of abundance in Hindu tradition, to enter our Home. Plus it is a wonderful occasion to feast, dance and enjoy together!