Children's news

Reminder:  These naked littles body (minus two) are all to be sponsored (30 dollars per child and per month, it can seem a lot, but it covers all the care and education, furthermore four salaries can share - one family, one office, one pub... For example, among the SOLHimal's volunteers, a couple, earing the minimum wages is sponsoring two children in Umbrella.

The optician's visit has been alright. No problem, three children need glasses that will be given by SOLHimal via Umbrella.
The day before, we took the children for a public "bath" where the neighbours wash themselves and their linen. That's 15 minutes walk and two minutes from Thamel. Without being asked anything, children got all undresses in a flash!
There the people showed their curiosity, even some showed their concern. One of them took a photo with his mobile, promising to sent it to the medias because, he says, 'they need to show reality'.

Jacky, Umbrella's country president, was sick. No way to contact him. August 11th, I was in the office when Gyan, at last, popped up. From him, I hoped a report about the families and the schools in the Rasuwa district, instead he asked me what I've decided for the children's sake, because an article will be published the next day... a way of pressure, but as long as there is no money, our emergency can't be solved !

Talking news, here a good one... but negative: where the children are coming from, there is starvation due to the closed chinese border. Chinese markets are much more accessible than Kathmandu for all the people living in the mountains (Humla, Dolpo, Langtang). So those people lack rice and vegetables.
Why closing a border and starving people? because Tibet, for the Chinese politic point of view, needs to be invisible, no one should be able to witness what happens there.
Therefore, if we already knew Chinese governement able to kill, here the IOC and its supporters are guilty of the same crimes!. There is sport and there is economic interests and nationalism...

Which impact for the children? That reduces their chance to go back to their village and family.
Wednesday, I went back to the children's to get them again to the public bath - if I don't go nobody else will do the job -  Choesang, 4, jumped in my arms. That's it, I'm their brother, their dhai.
The next I started the lice eradication. I used my clipper to its exhaustion. Boys were happy to get the same haircut than mine, but three girls emptied all the tears of their body while Choesang were overjoyed to be the first.

Anneli should have come to pay the school exams fees (just another tax!!!!) but she didn't come.
Gyan didn't give me any report because he wanted Tenzin (who dislikes the article :"Children in illegal orphanage")... to do the job... Do we live in an upside down world? anyway such a situation shows the real limits of the Nepali Government.