Ankuran, which is Nepali for 'sprout', will provide a safe, fertile and healthy place for children to sprout and grow, as well as providing jobs for the community.

The Dream

To build a small home for underprivileged children or orphans, as well as to start with a special kindergarten based on the Nepali culture, combined with the suggestions given by Rudolf Steiner's Waldorf teaching. 

We are five students studying with the International Youth Initiative Program (YIP) in Sweden. For one month this spring during February and March, we will be traveling to the small village of Kahare in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal, to work with the Kevin Rohan Memorial Eco Foundation (KRMEF).

KRMEF is a foundation founded by Krishna Gurung, which provides the under privileged, disabled and poor with an opportunity to work on an organic biodynamic farm and allows them to be productive, while enabling their children to attend school. KRMEF's newest project is to build a small home for underprivileged children or orphans, combined with the suggestions given by Rudolf Steiner’s Waldorf teaching.

The Impact

The Ankuran home will help to provide orphans and underprivileged children from around Kahare with their basic needs, as well as the new kindergarten, so that their mothers can go to work. This will contribute to a better standard of living for local families, that will in return sustain the Ankuran Kindergarten.

Ankuran will focus on children of the local Chepang and Gandarva casts. The Chepang come from a background of medical and nature knowledge, while the Gandarva are traditionally musicians. While these are considered to be people of low casts, they originate from a very rich culture and tradition, however these qualities are at risk of being lost due to severe poverty. 

What We Need

Krishna has independently raised $20,000 and so we are much closer to our goal than we originally thought! However, we still need a little over $10,000.

The first step of this project is to finance the purchasing the land and initial materials required for the construction of the eco building.

KRMEF intends to build an ecologically friendly house in a typical Nepali style and has found a property next to Krishna Gurung’s Foundation house in Kahare and rented it. Unfortunately the house standing on the property is too old to be renovated, however some materials will be able to be recycled. KRMEF have such commitment and dedication to this project, and believe so strongly in the fact that positive energy will help them to make this dream come true, that they have already given an advance to the owner for the land. Therefore they have until the 24th of January 2012 to raise the entire amount for the land and the first floor of the building.

You can also visit the KRMEF website here.

Or view their facebook page here.

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