Chitra tells the brief story for how the Grace Children home was Started
In 1995 I was studying in a secular collage at KTM. I had seen many street children sleeping and making beds on the street. These children reminded me my own childhood history and poverty. Since that time my heart went to those children who are poor helpless and parentless I had been started dreaming to adopting them and sch
ooling them. Yet, I couldn’t do because of financial problems was great but started praying. I also shared to my Church about those children to pray. Church also joined for it to pray but couldn’t do anything to them in practical. In 1997 I was invited to a Christian retreat centre in UK for volunteer worker where I had time to pray and share with the people. I returned back to Nepal and again share with my pastor starting orphan home as part of our Church ministry. Our Congregation was positive about it and started praying about it. Again it wasn’t right time and I was called to train up as a leader and went to Bible College in Glasgow from where I earned Diploma certificate level and come back to Nepal
to continue our Lord Ministry. Now I again seriously called deacons and pastor to pray for what I had been dreaming about orphan’s home we hold every Sunday fasting prayer for guidance from the Lord about starting orphans home. My Church reached in agreement starting orphan’s home and bought couple of children’s beds. We also bought plastic containers and had given it to each member of Church. The idea is to separate one handful rice in their each cooking time. We gave named for plastic containers as ‘Grace Box’. Thus each week church enables to collect 30 Kg. of rice. And for the first time we adopted 3 children. We had church meeting how to run the children home and what we name for it? One of the Church’s members suggested the name ‘Grace Children home’ as they living by Grace Box. So the new name grace children home came obviously from ‘Grace Box’. it is formally started in 2002. Again we felt to legalize it and indeed registered with the Government in 2005 as a charity organization. At present these are the children at Grace Children home accommodating and their brief
Backgrounds:
Nabin khadka
He is 12 years old comes from the east part of Nepal. He was only a years when his daddy was dead in India while he was there to earn daily bread for his family. Nabin has two brothers and one sister. They never have opportunity to go school cause of poverty. His widow’s mother works in villager’s farms and never managing to feed her 4 children. Praise God! Nabin is very lucky now he have place to live and food to eat also studying very well. He aims to be a doctor in the future and support his family! Surya Tamang
He is 13 years old come from mid west part of Nepal his Daddy was lost after his younger brother born. He has gone to India and never come back home. It has been 12 years since he has not come back. His family does not have home and enough land. They live in a hut made from grass roof. They do not have anything. Schooling is beyond from their thinking. When Surya gets food each time in Grace Children home he used to remember to his brother and mother. One day he left some food and I asked him to finish it but he said that “I save it for his mother and brother”. I promised him we will send them some raw rice. Told him that he couldn’t save cooked rice! He always asks me to bring his mother and brother to grace children home. In fact, I went to see her and now she is suffering from TB. Please pray for him and his family. Currently, he is studying in grade 4. Now Surya mother is kicked out from the village by drunker father-in lows and we heard that she has gone for begging in the third city of Pokhara. She is still suffering from TB. Ratan Tamang
Ratan also come from where Surya from. He is 12 years and studying in Grade 3. He has seven brothers and sisters. His daddy is Alcoholic. His Daddy tortured his wife and children. They are very poor family do not have land and have small grass hut. Lives are very difficult. Education is beyond their thought as they struggling for daily bread. Please pray this big family that Lord would feed them. Our sister church from Dhading recommended him to Grace Children home. His none of the seven brothers and sisters has opportunity to go school. He also likes to bring his family to Grace Children home. In fact cannot do so although it is real to him. His family needed to find some where secure place to live. Sabita Somal (at present she is returned back to her uncle when he came from Indian)
Sabita is 8 years old and studying in grade 1 came from far west part of Nepal. She is very pretty girl. It takes 4 days to get her village one day by bus and 3 days on walking. Her story is very tragic. According to her Daddy was killed in the civil war. While she was six years old yet her younger sister was born. Further she added that after her daddy’s killed no one was there to earn their daily bread. One day sabita’s Mother went to work to neighbor’s farm leaving back 2 months old baby to Sabita for an hour. But baby started to cry and Sabita could not stop baby crying. So she bet with a stone so and her younger sister instantly dead. Sabita thought baby has obeyed her. She didn’t know her sister was dead. While she was telling her story she thinks guilty of killing her sister and started crying. This little girl asked me God forgives her? I told her yes, he does because your sins are unknown. Furthermore, her mother also dead after a year depression. Sabita and her older brother was left. Now her brother is looked after from his neighbor and Sabita have small heaven with Grace Children home. Sabita also would like her brother accommodate with her. Please pray we may have enough resources so we can adopt more children like Sabita. She also have extra gift of singing. She already had recorded her voice in Struggle album which is produce to support Grace Children home. Tara Basnet
She is 12 years old come from Far East part of Nepal and studying in grade 4. She has six brothers and sister. Her Daddy was Suicide after taking poison after Maoist threatens. After her daddy’s death her family became crippling. Lucky Tara enables to come to Grace Children home 3 years ago. She is enjoying her life and studying. Please pray that she also worried about her family. Most of the children would like to bring their people to Grace Children home as Tara does! Devaki Khadka
She also come from the as same village as Tara does. She is studying in grade 5 and 13 years old. She is extra ordinary girl. She would like to stay at the kitchen to help Sharda. She also found home with Grace Children home when her mother and father abducted by Army during ten years revolution. Praise God they recently released and do not have any thing for them. Please pray that they would able to cultivate their land and able to feed their family. But Devaki would stay with us she will never go to village from where her father was abducted. Ram bahadur Khatri
Ram also comes from east part of Nepal. He is 15 years old but very small cause of malnutrition. He looks 9 years age in fact, he is 15. He is studying in grade 1. When we first adopted him he was very thin and even couldn’t stand for long time. We had to take to him to the hospital. Now he is healthy and enables to tell his story. He was kept as house servant and used as child labor. He was behaved almost animal from cruel master. One of the kind men found him and brought to Grace Children home. He Daddy was dead while he was 6 years old. He has two sisters and one blind mother. Both of his sisters are used as child labor in his district. His blind mother lives in the village own her own. She is living by begging. Because she cannot work in farm. Please pray that still he fears very much when he meets new people. Sunita Nepali (Sunita also returned back to her uncle when government promised to pay her scholarship in monthly basis). Sunita come from mid east part of Nepal. She is 10 years old. She comes from very low cast family which called in Nepal Dalit mean untouchable cast. Her daddy was killed in slate mine. Since that time no one there two earn and look after children. One of the Church member brought her from her family. Her family situation is very poor. Her mother has depression and ill. Sunita found home with us. She is studying very well. She knows who with to pray and does for her mother and sisters. Dipshikha Gadhal (At present she also returned back to her family when her Grandma took responsibility to look after her, she also paid scholarship by social organization for her study in monthly basis)
She comes from south east part of Nepal. She is 7 years old. She is very much would like to stay with her blind parents. Infect her parents are blind do not have nothing to schooling her. As you may know in Nepal people regarded to be blind means disgraceful. The do not receive any benefits from the government. We are very grateful for their faith. Both came to Christ and our church is sponsoring to her father for Tabala training. When he finishes his course he would like to play in our Church. Please pray for them and of course Dipshikha. This family also is from untouchable cast. Sitaram Khadka
He comes from Mid East part of Nepal. He is 9 years old and studying in Grade 1. He also unloved child. He was left alone when his Alcoholic dads run away with another woman. He is very bright child and enjoying being here with Grace Children home please pray for him and his bright future. He has 4 brothers and sisters at the village and often remembers them. Ujjawal Khadka
Ujjawal comes from East-North part of Nepal. He is 13 years old and studying in grade 6. his Daddy used to work in Indian as a porter to earn bread for his family. He returned back last (2007) year to see his family with some money. It wasn’t adequate to pay his loan and the family’s expenses. Therefor, one day he was disappeared and found near woodland hung on a tree. His suicide death left his family more venerable and opportunity of schooling for his 3 three kids’ door was closed. When his neighbor comes with ujjawal to adopt we prayed and adopted him at Grace Children home. Now he is one of the happy and humble children at home. Please do pray for him and his helpless family in the hilly village. Ramita tamang
Ramita comes from remote village of Dhading district which lies west North part of
Nepal. She is 14 years old and studying in grade 7. It takes a day bus and two days walk from near town to get at her village. She comes from Christian family but her parent is very poor, they couldn’t afford schooling her as they have big family. She was working neighbor’s house as a servant girl in a town for food. Her relative had visited our Church and talked about her situations therefore, our Church prayed and felt right to adopt her at Grace Children Home. She is one of the sharp girl and doing very well in her study. Please do pray for her family so the able to earn enough food for her rest of brothers and sisters in the village. Babita tamang. Babita comes from far west of Nepal which is called Dhankuta, from where many young- man comes to join British Gorkha Army. Unfortunately, her family couldn’t get such opportunity. She is 9 years old and studying at grade 4. Poor Babita, her Mother died when she was 5 years old there is no one to give such motherly love in her life. Her Daddy also married another woman. Step mother never care her. In her own words, “I never had enough food, there is not even single day on which my step mother stops abusing me. Now I am relieved when God gave me nice parent at Grace Children Home. My Daddy always used to go for labour works he never had time talk to me. He is drunker I always fears of him”. Please pray this sweet girl. She is one of the quite girl pray that she may able to share all her past bad experience with us. Suman Tamang
Suman Taman is a brother of Suraya tamang. Surya is always praying for him to bring with him at Grace Children Home. (Please read Surya tamang to know suman background). Indeed, he is with us now. Suman is 8 years old. He started his studding in grade one. Some time he remembers his pulie mother. We will take him to see her mother on October. It is good news about her mother. His mother is in still Pokhara but some one has given her woolen work, so she is able to earn her daily bread plus able to pay for T.B.’s medications. Now she is much healthy. Please continue pray for their mother’s health. Both brother doing well in their studies.
