Have you ever had an experience, a moment in your life, when it seemed like the world shifted around you and suddenly your perspective was entirely changed? Moments like these are magical and happen rarely, unless that is, you happen to be the proverbial fly on the wall at Kailash Home. At Kailash, these moments happen regularly.

Through our Friends of Kailash Home program, people of all ages, but primarily university students, from around the world have the chance to stay at Kailash for up to a month. While on campus these visitors have a unique opportunity to meet and mentor our children through shared meals, tutoring, and other fun activities and outings. Rather than tell you how impactful these experiences are for both our Friends and our Kailash Kids, though, we invite you to read what a few of our most recent visitors had to say:

In this post Guest Writer and HYF Board Member/longtime Kailash Sponsor, Brad Blum reflects on his first visit to Nepal almost exactly 7 years ago.

“As I write to you, I’m transported back in time and flooded with memories from my very first trip to Nepal.”

This article is a repost from the COINS Foundation Blog. COINS Consultant Prasanna visited Kailash Home in early April of 2022 and shared a little about her experience.

My name is Jayang Wangdue Gurung. I hail from a tiny, isolated village in the Tibetan border regions of Dolpa, a district in the north Western region of Nepal that lacks broad access to schools, health services, and modern transportation. As a young child, I lived there with my young widowed mother and five siblings. I was told that my father had passed away a few months before my younger brother was born, leaving my mother destitute, and shortly after I was admitted to Kailash Home at age 7, my mother also passed away. Like many other children, Kailash became the only real home I’d ever known.

One of our top priorities in all of our projects is to provide all of our children with the best possible education from primary school up through vocational school or university. 🎓 It is our goal that each and every #KailashKid can go on to achieve whatever their dreams may be and in the process make their communities just a little bit better. 📚

It’s an undeniable fact that without the support of our worldwide community, we would not be able to provide so fully for our Kailash Kids. But, the day to day love and care of our children falls to another part of our extended, global family, and today we’d like to take a moment to introduce you to some of them.

We are kicking off 2022 in the best way! Thanks to our community of supporters, friends, and donors around the world, we not only met, but exceeded the goal for our 2021 Annual Appeal.

Our 2021 Annual Appeal begins now, and you have the opportunity to double your impact thanks to the extreme generosity of our friends the Bickells!

While students here in the United States are enjoying the last of their summer holiday, our Kailash Kids have started a brand new school year. With COVID cases high and vaccination numbers still low across Nepal though, this term is progressing completely virtually with remote learning only. Thanks to our experience over the past year however, we were ready and well equipped for this reality.

While students here in the United States are enjoying the last of their summer holiday, our Kailash Kids have started a brand new school year. With COVID cases high and vaccination numbers still low across Nepal though, this term is progressing completely virtually with remote learning only. Thanks to our experience over the past year however, we were ready and well equipped for this reality.