Easter in Nepal

05/01/2011 at 6:34 pm · Filed under Orphan Home, Programs, Volunteering and tagged: Easter, Easter egg hunt, Easter eggs, Nepal, nepal orphan children, volunteering

This weekend Easter came to Nepal as Bina and our special guest from America, Greg, helped the children to make Easter eggs and hold an Easter egg hunt. Last week while teaching an English conversation class to the children, Bina told the children a little about Easter since it had just passed, and we decided it would be wonderful to give them a real Easter experience. We ran around Panauti and scoured the internet to find all the ingredients necessary to make Easter eggs with natural dyes.

First each child received an egg and got to draw some picture or design in crayon that would resist the dye coloring. Then we experimented with 4 natural dyeing agents: cilantro for green, carrots for orange, red grape juice for purple, and turmeric for gold. Turmeric was by far the best dyeing agent, with grape juice second, and carrots a complete failure. After the eggs were finished dyeing and drying, Bina and Greg hid the eggs and candies throughout the house and the children got to participate in a true Easter egg hunt! The joy on their faces and in their loud laughs and screams as they found egg after egg and candy after candy was priceless. We could not have imagined they would be so skilled, and it only took about 20 minutes for them to find everything.

After the hunt was finished, each child got the pleasure of eating their hard-boiled egg and chocolate bar. Despite a few failures with the natural dyeing process, the whole celebration was a joyous success. We are so grateful to Bina for her brilliant idea of giving the children their own Easter celebration and exposing them to a foreign holiday, and to Greg for joining us on this special occasion and providing so much entertainment to the children. When we set out on this journey to create a loving home for the orphaned and disadvantaged children of Nepal and a place for volunteers to come and exchange culture with us, this Easter in Nepal celebration is exactly the kind of experience we had in mind. We are thrilled to see our vision being fulfilled and the Joining Hands Nepal community extending beyond all borders and boundaries.

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