James Lally

JLa & NCo run the Kathmandu Marathon

Fundraising for The Nepali Children's Trust

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We have taken a break from our time on the road and are staying in Kathmandu to work at a disabled children’s home. We're helping to look after 25 little people who come from remote and mountainous areas of Nepal where life for a disabled child is particularly difficult and where there is very little medical help or access to education.

Their disability has occurred for a variety of reasons but they are mostly untreated accidental injuries and severe burns as a result of babies and young children being left unattended with open cooking fires while their parents work the land. While giving our time is great (mainly spent failing miserably to help with their maths homework and being embarrassed at the chess board) we'd also like to raise some money to help to complete the new house that they live in. As you can see from one of our pictures, it has the potential to be fantastic but more money is needed to finish it (although the children have already been living there for 3 months).

Hence, the ridiculous Kathmandu Marathon (or half marathon and 5k to be precise). 7 days after climbing to Everest Base Camp, 1600m high, hills, cows, the most disgusting traffic we've ever known, knee-high pot-holes, guys on the route selling North Fake jackets, tiger balm and mini-violins, and most of all a lack of training and a penchant for cheep local beer and Nepalese curry makes this a really silly idea - but one that we certainly think is worth it.

Please give what you can.

James & Nicola

Read more about our adventures here: www.offexploring.com/james-and-nicola.

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About the charity

The Nepali Children's Trust

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RCN 1111279

www.nepalichildrenstrust.org

We provide long term, effective, sustainable support to 30 physically disabled children at the New Life Centre in Nepal and with virtually no administrative costs. The children usually come from remote and mountainous areas where life for a disabled child is particularly difficult and there is very little medical help or access to education. Disability may occur due to a variety of reasons but often because of untreated accidental injuries and severe burn injuries as a result of babies and young children being left unattended with open cooking fires while their parents work the land. We work closely with the children and staff at the centre assessing their needs and liaising with the local board members of the centre about the best way we can help. The main focus of our support is a commitment to provide a new home which will help the centre save a third of its budget for rent to use for other important expenses. We also help with other essential day to day costs. We liaise with other Nepali and foreign donors of the centre to ensure a web of integrated support that minimises reliance on any one agency alone, thus guaranteeing on going medical care, a caring home, a healthy diet, good education, as well as post school training and further study where appropriate.