
Letters From Kailash
While traditional mail to and from Nepal may not always be the most reliable method of communication, thanks to the power of the internet, you never have to worry about missing an update from Kailash Home. Letters from Kailash, the official HYF blog, is here to share news, events, student spotlights, and more!
New Staff at Kailash Home
We recently welcomed two staff members to our team in Nepal, and we're thrilled to introduce you to the newest members of our Kailash family! Both Novita Rai, our new Academic Coordinator, and Swati Singh, our new Hostel in Charge, bring incredible passion and experience to their roles and are already working wonders with our Kailash Kids. Read on to learn more about Novita and Swati.
Welcome Home Kailash Kids!
We’re thrilled to introduce you to our newest class of Kailash Kids! Sonam Choedon Gurung (10), Fudeme Bhote (7), and Diki Khando Lama (6) recently arrived at Kailash Home and are settling into their new routine and schools. It is a bittersweet season for us every year as we celebrate our graduating seniors and also welcome some fresh new faces to campus. It will be exciting to watch these students grow and thrive over the coming years, and before too long, we’ll be celebrating their graduations too.
Happy Healthy Smiles
One of our favorite things is witnessing the beautiful, happy smiles of our children. We know that all children need support in a multitude of areas and that includes when it comes to overall health and wellness. All of our #KailashKids receive regular dental exams to ensure that they are maintaining good dental hygiene and to check for any issues.
Kailash Class of 2024
Just like that, it’s time to celebrate and say goodbye to our Class of 2024.
Generations of Kailash Kids
Family is the beating heart of Kailash Home, and the foundation that allows our children to flourish and succeed not only at every stage of their time with us, but also as they go out into their young adult lives. Seeing the intersection of these different factions of our wider Kailash family is an incredibly gratifying marker of success, and recently, we’ve been thrilled to witness a whole new era of Kailash Alumni involvement!
Faces of the Future - Our 2023 Annual Appeal is here!
Our 2023 Annual Appeal is now, and we need your help! Give before November 30th and your gift will be matched dollar for dollar.
GUEST POST: A Week at Kailash Home
To know, to really understand life at Kailash Home is to live in her sounds. Bells ringing suddenly in the pre-dawn light. The steady chanting of morning prayers. A hundred chairs scraping the dining hall floor. The clanging of dishes being washed and stacked back on their shelves. The routine thud of basketballs on concrete. Birdsong from just outside the open windows. And always, always the laughter and shouts and chatter of the children. Life at Kailash is an unending symphony of happy, vibrant noise.
Welcome Home for Our Newest Class of Kailash Kids
It is officially one of my favorite times of the year. This is the season when we welcome a brand new set of children to Kailash Home and our HYF family! While in Nepal last month, I had the opportunity to personally greet our four new students and observed with great joy just how quickly they assimilated to life with the other children.
When & Where It All Began: One Sponsor’s Journey to Kailash Home
In this post Guest Writer and HYF Board Member/longtime Kailash Sponsor, Brad Blum reflects on his first visit to Nepal almost exactly 7 years ago.
“As I write to you, I’m transported back in time and flooded with memories from my very first trip to Nepal.”
ALUMNI GUEST WRITER: A Memoir of a Special Home
My name is Jayang Wangdue Gurung. I hail from a tiny, isolated village in the Tibetan border regions of Dolpa, a district in the north Western region of Nepal that lacks broad access to schools, health services, and modern transportation. As a young child, I lived there with my young widowed mother and five siblings. I was told that my father had passed away a few months before my younger brother was born, leaving my mother destitute, and shortly after I was admitted to Kailash Home at age 7, my mother also passed away. Like many other children, Kailash became the only real home I’d ever known.
