Joining Hands Nepal
A Family Orphan HomeArchive for learning English
Gift of Knowledge
Our first package of foreign supplies arrived over the weekend from a good friend of the orphanage in America. We received several story books for early English learners, coloring books, pencils, crayons, and a puzzle game which the kids mastered in under an hour. The children were so grateful for the gifts they asked when they can say hello and thank you to the generous donor of said gifts on Skype, something completely unknown and unimaginable to them 2 weeks ago. The are quickly learning the wonderful benefits of having proper facilities, a wealth of people who care for them, and the exciting new possibilities those two things can open for them. Never would they have thought about video chatting with some person halfway around the world from Nepal, but now, after the interest they have shown, perhaps we will be able to start a Skype pen pal program with other children around the world sooner than we could have hoped. The possibilities are exciting to us too.
Easy as ABC
We had some lovely foreign guests not too long ago from Germany visit our home and practice yoga with us. The children had not yet arrived, but our new friends were kind enough to donate story books and writing practice books for children they would not meet. Among those generously provided materials were small books for practicing writing the English alphabet. Each page has a letter and a word the letter stands for, along with a picture, such as A for Apple or U for Umbrella. There are a few example letters made of dotted lines to trace, and then plenty of space to practice writing the letter on your own. Each of our youngest children got one of these practice books, and with so much enthusiasm were the books received that they spent all of their free time last night and this morning writing their ABCs, and by afternoon the books will be completely filled out. These children who have so often been afforded little to nothing in the way of books and toys also received activity books with games and puzzles, story books, and small stuffed animals, but they chose to spend nearly all their time practicing the alphabet and trying to complete the whole book. As we are learning now, when children have nothing, they are eager for any opportunity to learn, and we are eager to teach them and show them we care.
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