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Viva and Jacky's History with Umbrella
For our recent subscribers to the newsletter an introduction to the great work of Viva and Jacky is definitely in order.
Viva Bell co-...
In April two young Dutch psychology students, Irene and Inger, arrived with great ambitions to help Umbrella. No one could have told us then what these girls were capable of when they...
Nepal has become a hot spot for tourists. Some come to trek in the Himalayas with dreams of summiting Everest and some come for the laid...
In a country rubbish collection is substituted with local bomb-fires, with no recycling facilities more sophisticated than the child rag pickers and where a 'carbon foot print...
Umbrella has always relied on the dedication and efforts of their volunteers. While volunteers can be of great help in the office, in construction in Gurje or in the improving of daily...
Saturday is the only day in the week that the children do not have school. As Umbrella puts such an emphasis on education during the week we try to make Saturdays an extra special day....
A 19 year old Umbrella child, Sushil, from the Western district of Surkhet, has been working with Indian immigrant families the last year and a half along the banks of the filthy Bagmati...
In 2007 Conor and Stephen started working with an orphanage called CVO in Gongabu. Through the kindness of families and friends back in...
Its hard to put into words all that was achieved by Jacky and Viva in Umbrella and even harder to write down how everyone in Umbrella, especially the children, felt to see them go.
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