Child Action Nepal
After September 11th, Florence Krief was made redundant with half of her team from Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein where she was an investment banker specialising in Mergers and Acquisitions.
Florence had travelled extensively in South East and Central Asia and fell in love with the children she met there. She always wanted to come back and do something useful for them.
She decided that now was the right time to take a sabbatical and find some volunteer work in orphanages in Asia. She contacted a few organisations and ended with an assignment in Nepal and one in Mongolia.
In Nepal where she was living in a Nepalese family in Kathmandu, she was supposed to teach English a couple of hours per day to 25 children. However she was in a place where the children were so badly treated that she felt she could not do anything else but stay eight hours with the children every day and make sure they had good food, better clothes, could clean themselves every day and have proper healthcare.
After a couple of months of hard work, the children’s lives were improved considerably but Florence realised leaving would not be the right thing to do as their lives would go back to the nightmare it was before she came to Kathmandu.
She then decided to establish her own orphanage. In less than two months she found a house which she rented for 3 years, decorated and furnished completely. She also established the orphanage as an NGO called Laliguraas Baal Uddhyaan (The Rhododendron Children’s Refuge).
She managed to “save” four children from the bad place she used to work for. Then people started to come and submit cases of orphaned children. The home is now home to 20 children (10 girls and 10 boys). Florence funded LBU herself for one year and then with some British friends established Child Action Nepal, a UK registered charity.
At present Child Action Nepal is not funded by any major international organisation and is wholly reliant on donations.
As a newly established Trust, all the administrative costs (with the exception of the auditing of the accounts and the bank transfer fees to LBU’s account in Nepal) are currently supported by the trustees. Your donations are important and will directly benefit the children.