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Short-term
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In
providing a social service to Nepal, sustainability is the
most important factor. Our success will depend on our ability
to be there “tomorrow”. A recent inventory of
orphanages and children’s homes in Nepal in 2006 revealed
that 85% of these groups had been in existence for four
years or fewer.
Therefore, the New Life Children’s
Home will not open until $30,000 has been raised; to ensure
2 years of operating funds for 15 children. This buffer
will give us time to build revenue streams for annual
operating costs. Pending completion of the capital campaign
we will start building an endowment fund to supplement
our expenditures for annual operating costs. The endowment
will provide New Life Children’s Home with security
and the ability to help children from a very young age
through their matriculation into society as adults.
We are striving to have raised the starting
capital by the end of 2007 so implementation of this development
plan can start January 2008. Once the start-up capital
has been raised, the International Advisory Board will
travel to Nepal to meet with the New Life Children’s
Home manager and the governing board of New Life Children’s
Home Nepal to discuss the detailed planning, review the
potential locations, and the orphanage’s policies.
New Life Children’s Home will register
with Nepal’s Social Welfare Council, which, like
the IRS, will require annual reporting and audits of financial
transactions.
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Long-term
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In
the long term we will endeavor to build our own facility.
This is for a couple of reasons: so that landlords will
not trouble us, which is a very common problem in Nepal,
and so that we can build a facility that exactly meets the
needs and demands of the owners. With our own facility we
can ensure a long-term guarantee to our children that a
roof above their heads will be available.
The
requirements of our own facility would be: spacious (dorm)
rooms, comfortable guest facilities, staff facilities,
sickroom, transition room, kitchen, dining room, playing
and study room etc. We also require this facility to be
in a quiet area on a large piece of land, to guarantee
the children can play outside in as safe a way as possible.
Initial
calculations (not yet in detail) show that such a facility
would cost $ 50.000 - including land. At this point in
time it is not possible to estimate when these funds will
be raised, as we are uncertain of the response of potential
donors to our plans.
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