During our stay in Kathmandu in July 2015, we purchased blue school sweaters, sandals, blue hats, notebooks, pencils, pencil sharpeners and erasers for the 45 students of the Suryamati Primary School in the village of Narjamandap in Nuwakot. The items were stored at Ram’s home beforehand and were taken to the school after the monsoon rains had stopped and the roads were passable again.

In the second week of October, Ram and his wife Saraswati traveled to the village by local bus and hired taxi. They set off at five o’clock in the morning, but because many local buses were canceled due to a major fuel shortage, it took over an hour to get to the bus station with a local bus. When they arrived there, they exchanged the bus for a taxi, which they hired in advance. After four and a half hours, they finally arrived at the school, where they received a heart-warming welcome from teachers and children. Afterwards there were still a few sweaters and hats left and Ram and Saraswati were able to make a villager, who has not been able to speak from birth, very happy with a new sweater and hat.

Read more about Ram’s experiences of the day here:
“Everybody know that Nepal is in crisis right now due to the shortage of petrol and life has become very tough but I planned to donate something to small kids. My passion is to make other happy. So I head on to poor kids at 5:00 AM on Thursday. I need to go up to buspark where I booked a taxi. Only few local buses were running on the road but one of the local busses picked us up even seeing that we have luggage. We waited one hour which became very late but we had no option. After 70 minute we catch a local bus putting our luggage on roof which was illegal. Finally we catch a taxi around 7:30 and head on to a school. We reached the school at 12:00 noon and saw kids who were very happy. Then we distribute sweaters, caps, pencils, erasers, cutters and sandles to the bare feet. I was really happy seeing their smiley faces..love to do such a helping task forever…”

On behalf of all the children, we would like to thank all sponsors for making this campaign possible.