After a very long travel session, we’ve safely arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal.
We spent two days in the tourist district of Thamel debriefing from our time in India and preparing for our time here in Nepal. The Thamel district is incredible, coffee shop next to a mountaineering shop next to a pastry shop next to a pub. Almost everyone speaks english and do their best to rip us off on things we buy. Kathmandu sits in a valley surrounded by 9000’ peaks, these are but foothills when compared to the Himalayans you can see on a clear day. As with most large towns in third world cities, the air, water and utility quality is awful.
This month my team will be working with Prison Fellowship Nepal. I won’t recite everything that you can read on their website, but their general mission statement is: “To support, train and rehabilitate the ex-prisoners, prisoners, their children and families and victims to secure their bright future and reintegrate in their own society.”
When a person is put in jail in Nepal and they cannot afford or provide an alternative home for their children, the children go with the parents into the jail, and literally share a cell with their mother or father. PFN has access to these prisons and is able to rescue the children and bring them to these homes. Here they are fed, educated and given a loving community and family.
We’ll be partnering with PFN by spending time with, teaching and disciplining the children of prisoners and their families. PFN has four Peace Loving Children Homes. Two in Kathmandu, one in Chitwan and another in Pokhara. We’ve spent the last five days at a home on the outside of Kathmandu. There are fourteen children here, all have been rescued from the prisons.
Tomorrow we’ll travel to the home in Chitwan, Nepal (about 150 km west of Kathmandu) and then four days later travel to the home in Pokhara (200 km NW of Kathmandu). If time allows we hope to spend two days in the mountains.
Thanks for your continued support! I thank God for you daily.
