Great News!
Land and a home have been found and purchased! Nabin, his wife and their 3 children; Sundia, Sabina, and Sundays own their own home and now have a chance to support themselves, thank you to all those who helped. Hands Helping Hands was a huge success with it’s first project.. helping a family in a small, remote village in Nepal to become self sufficient.

After 2 months of tactical bartering, Nabin took possession of the farm land and home on November 9th, 2008 with a thumb print on the deed for the house from him, his uncle and the uncle’s two sons who sold him the land. Nabin has moved his family into their new home, and decided to invite the school principle to continue renting a room as he said “it is a good learning opportunity for the children to have him always around”.

Stay tuned as Brad and I are working on a project for phase two as Nabin works hard to start repaying our loan. The goal is that Hands Helping Hands can continue to help families in Nepal through other projects: an irrigation project for the village, helping the orphanage in Pohkara,or bringing the internet to the village so the school can make use of the computers sitting in the closet.

Thank you again for everyone’s generosity! From the beginning when Brad and I said, do you think we can do this? Can we really get all these people to join in and help? The answer was yes, right from the start we knew it would be possible to pull together our friends and family to help a family in need. What we were not prepared for was, how fast and how overwhelming the support would be. I have always explained to Nabin that I am not the one who has made this possible, that many, many people in Canada have joined in to help him make his dream come true. He says on the phone, “sister, I have no words to describe how you have made our family feel, I say to my family as long as we are alive we will never forgot the kindness. Please sister, say thank you to the team.”