We are fighting to give hope and create a future for the poorest of the poor.
Dear friends around the world, we want to start the year 2024 by sending a big THANK YOU to every member and supporter of Human Care & Education.
Despite many difficulties last year, together we were able to achieve a lot: Nourish, care, connect, protect, educate and do our best “to make the world a better place”. Not only for our families and neighbors, but also for the hundreds of people involved in our three projects in Nepal and India who care for the local people – every day.
After just 1.5 years of construction, we inaugurated the new elementary school in Bihi, Gorkha District, on October 22, 2023.
Thanks to the generous support of the Merck Family Foundation, the building was not only constructed to be earthquake-proof, but also very solidly financed.
With the inauguration of the school in Bihi for 60 children, a big step has been taken. The large, previously overcrowded school in Serang now has fewer children (70 instead of 110). The prescribed standards for hygiene and accommodation are once again being met.
And because none of this can be taken for granted, we would like to remind you today that we should never doubt what we can achieve together, because together we have been able to do more this year than we could ever have imagined.
In 2024, the main focus must be on medical care for pupils, teachers and the population
The clinic in Bihi (2,500 m) needs our help to expand. This would eliminate the need for so many emergency flights to Kathmandu, and the very high costs saved on patient transportation could flow directly into the project.
The infirmary in Serang (3,500 m) – accessible for teachers and pupils as well as for the monks and nuns – also urgently needs to be modernized and expanded.
In India, we will continue to support schools for the poorest of the poor in 2024
Our “Mercy and Grace Charitable Trust” project in Bapulapadu, Andhra Pradesh, in India supports the running of three schools with a total of 800 children.
In addition to the school, Mercy & Grace also runs a school for seamstresses, where the children’s mothers (often widows) learn how to earn a living for their families through a trade.
By working as trained seamstresses, the mothers can also pay the school fees for their children.
By working closely with the charitable Indian foundation, the children, who would otherwise not be able to attend school, have the prospect of escaping poverty. And the mothers are directly and sustainably involved.
In Andhra Pradesh in south-east India, the average income per family is only 80 – 100 US dollars per month, and most people own neither land nor houses. They work for the upper caste landowners harvesting crops in the fields and fishing.
Mercy & Grace schools are open to children of all religions and world views and are not restricted to Hindus and the upper castes, as is the case in most state schools in India. This enables these children to break the vicious circle of poverty, no access to school, lack of education and training, lack of work and continued poverty.
And it will always have to be about helping in the event of natural disasters …
In November 2023, we experienced the earthquake in Nepal ourselves and immediately launched an aid program for the affected people in the country.
The magnitude 6.4 earthquake, which struck the Jajarkot region in western Nepal on the night of November 3, 2023, claimed over 10,000 lives and left many injured.
Thanks to our emergency aid of 8,000 euros, around 300 families were provided with blankets, tents and food. We will not be able to rebuild the houses, but we were able to save lives.
This mission was coordinated by the Shining Glory Church Nepal (SGN), with whom we run a multi-generational house in Kathmandu.
Seven orphans and four needy senior citizens are currently receiving full care here. The children’s schooling is also financed. The sponsor is the Protestant, non-profit Nepalese organization SGN, which was founded in 2000 by the Christian parish under the leadership of Pastor Joshua Khadka and his wife Elizabeth.
What gives us hope?
Your help was in the right place at exactly the right time in all projects. And that gives people hope and fills them with deep gratitude. Even though destruction and war will continue to dictate the agenda everywhere in 2024, we at Human Care & Education are facing up to our task: to do everything we can to ensure that sheer hopelessness does not prevail.
Because: We are fighting to give hope and create a future. School attendance for orphans – in many cases – is of central importance. And that is precisely why we help with a “basic school education” for the poorest of the poor.
Human Care & Education helps where there is no state social system and basic schooling is only available to very few. Without help, the bitter reality for most of them is: no education, no opportunities, no job, no hope!
With your help, we pay the teachers’ salaries (because the state only trains them), we buy the school materials and provide the minimum equipment for the classrooms. And for the most needy of the orphans, we also provide the “daily bowl of rice” and clothing. To do this, we need the great humanity and help of our donors and members, who often also become sponsors of the children.
We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your help and support!
Projects
Serang Basic School
Manaslu Conservation Area, Nepal
At an altitude of 3,500 meters in the Himalayas, the Serang Buddhist monastery provided shelter and protection for many children in need after the devastating nationwide earthquake in 2015, many of whom had lost one or both parents.
Orphanage and retirement home
in cooperation with Shining Glory Church, Kathmandu, Nepal
Designed as a multi-generational home, seven orphans and four needy senior citizens are currently being fully cared for here. School attendance is also financed for the children. It is run by a non-profit Nepalese organization founded by the Christian parish under the leadership of Pastor Joshua Khadka and his wife Elizabeth.
Mercy and Grace Charitable Trust
Bapulapadu, Andhra Pradesh, India
Operation of a school with 350 children by a charitable Indian foundation for the poorest children who would otherwise not be able to attend school and would therefore have no prospect of escaping poverty. In addition to the school, Mercy & Grace also runs a school for seamstresses, where the children’s mothers (often widows) learn how to earn a living for their families through handicrafts.
We need your support
Join us to provide underprivileged children with basic education so that they can pursue a dignified life.
A child without education is like a bird without wings.
Nuptul Tenpei Nyima Rinpoche
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