Dear Friends, Supporters, and Well-Wishers,
A Warm greetings from NECO Foundation, Chitwan, Nepal! As we wrap up the first four months of 2025, we’re excited to share the love, growth, and progress that have filled our days. Here are some highlights from January through April:
1. Academic Progress
School Achievement:
A New Academic Session started from this April month. Before that we want to congratulations to all our children for achieving good marks in their end of the academic years, esp. a huge congratulations to Mamata, Namrata, Pabindra, Yunika for topping their classes! As well as, Binaya, Khusbu, Prakash, Sanjok, and Biraj for getting good positions in their classes ! And we’re proud of all the children for their hard work.
Now all of them were in new classes with full of energy and excitement for their new Academic Sessions.
Dance Programme:
12 of our children performed folk dance at their Annual Parent Day Celebration at their school premises with great enthusiasm and energy. They managed and prepared their costumes and learnt dance by themselves. We’re proud to see their beautiful dance performance with full of confidence and they received a Certificate of Participation and special appreciation from the school’s principal.
Festival Celebration
We celebrated different festivals at different months and days – like Mage Sankranti, on January 14th, Saraswati Puja on January 23rd, Shree Swasthani Mata Puja (Jan- Feb, one month) and Holi in March. Also, at a celebration, we had a special lunch and fun. The festival brings us the peace, positivity, and unity and it helps us to connect with tradition, discipline, and the divine.
Maghe Sankranti:
Maghe Sankranti, a festival marking the importance of the seasonal transitions that it’s the end of winter, was joyfully celebrated with simple heartfelt rituals offering prayers for the health and prosperity with each other and we ate traditional foods, like til laddus, ghee- chaku, sweet potatoes, rotis and other traditional dishes.
Saraswati Puja Celebration (Basant Panchami):
Saraswati Puja, dedicated to Goddess Saraswati – the goddess of knowledge , wisdom and learning was celebrated with great devotion and enthusiasm. The children take a shower and decorated beautifully at the prayer place and placed Goddess Saraswati and did a special puja and aarti and had a prasad of fruits and laddu.
Shree Swasthani Mata Puja:
It’s a month-long Hindu ritual observed with deep devotion to Goddess Swasthani and involves daily recitations of the Swastani Brata Katha. So, we also gathered in the prayer hall in the evening and recited Swastani Katha by seniors, girls or boys.
Holi:
“Colors of Joy, Unity, and Love” - More than others, our younger children were more excited to play and celebrated the colors with their seniors and friends. All the staff, children and volunteers were in one place to wish and splash colors and water with each other. We sincerely thank to Caro our volunteer for providing sweets, colors and the Holi T- shirt .
Pic: Holi Celebrations.
Birthday Celebration
As usual, we used to celebrate the children’s birthday to spread happiness and make them feel special and loved. The children whose birthdays fell in the month were invited to the front, and were greeted with cheers and claps by others. A birthday cake was brought out to cut.
Agriculture and Gardening Project
Our garden is growing and blooming with beautiful flowers, vegetables and fruits ! The children planted vegetables like beans, flowers, maize and harvested mustard. They are learning about nature and responsibility through this ongoing project. They also enjoy growing chickens and goats at the farms.
Taekwondo Grading
A successful Taekwondo Grading event was held on 2nd week of April month at the NECO Home premises where 17 of the children participated with great enthusiasm. The event was organized to assess their progress and promote them to the next belt level based on their skill, discipline and dedication. All of them did good with their remarkable improvement, confidence and discipline where all of them were upgraded. The upgrade belt was from white belt to blue green belt. Two of the children, Sanjok and Mamata did excellent and were upgraded to double belt. Congratulations to all for their progress and continuous improvement in their Taekwondo Journey!
Extra Activities
Besides Taekwondo we have many indoor and outdoor games. Here’s some of the pictures:
Pic: Playing Musical Game and Volleyball.
Outing – Golaghat, Sketing Park and Gyaneshwor Community Forest
Golaghat:
For refreshment ,we went out for about 3-4 hours to Golaghat, to see the sunset near the bank of the Narayani River. We enjoy walking river bank pathway in the evening time.
Skating Park:
The visit to the skating park was fun-filled with energetic outing. It helped to build the children's confidence through physical, emotional, and social development.
It’s the first experience so, all of us were learning.
Gyaneshwor Community Forest:
After skating, having a tired face, we went to nearby community forest’s Park. After driving half an hour, we were there. We enjoy the nature pathwalk, seeing the banks of the rivers, small zoos, and fun parks for the children.
Pic: Watching Birds and Animals in the Zoo and enjoying in the park.
Child Club:
To promote child participation, leadership and personal development we established a Child Club on 29th March. The total number of the members was 9 from different grades and ages. The main aim of establishing the club is to empower children to express themselves, learn life skills and take part in meaningful activities in NECO, community and school activities.
Pic: Members of the Child Club.
Health Related
- Child Health Insurance
As regularly, we used to check up health according to the needs to the children as well as to ensures timely access to medical care, prevents treatment delays due to funding gaps, and to reduce the financial burden we opened Child Health Insurance to all the children that cover all the preventive and medical - health related expense of the children. Heartly appreciates the local government as well as others who directly and indirectly helps to open Health Insurance to the children!
Pic: Eye Check - up and Taking picture while filling Insurance form and Finally Health Insurance Card.
Volunteer of the Month:
The commitment, compassion and tireless efforts of our Caro, made a remarkable impact on the lives of our children. We’re grateful to have her as a part of our family. It’s her third time volunteering in NECO. Here’s some of the efforts she did for us.
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- A Warm Jacket for everyone. Also we got a lot of chocolates and stationary items.
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- She brings puzzles and children have fun by making them. More than this she teaches vocabulary and for the children. As a result, they’re now being confident to speak English.
- Besides, we have a two weeks educational tour to Kathmandu and nearby places like Kakani ,Chandragiri as well as Bhaktaapur and Sanga. (More explained at Kathmandu Tour Topic).
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Gift From Uncle William:
Here’s the group picture of children wearing a beautify cozy Sweet t- Shirts , and Hoodies from Uncle Bill Gifts. Thank you so much uncle Bill for the wonderful and surprise gifts.
Pic: Children wearing gifts from Uncle William.
Construction Updates:
To keep the shade in the excessive sun heat and protect from the rain there's a running L- Shaped Pathway Trust project that connects the office building as well as playing indoor space for the children, kitchen and the swimming pool. 70 % of the work has been done and remaining work will be complete within this month. Thank you, Cyrus, for supporting us in this project. Your efforts are truly appreciated and will be remembered as a cornerstone of this meaningful endeavor.
At last, thank you so much to all of our supporters, donors, volunteers as well as to all our staff who supported us directly and indirectly raised these children. We all worked together. We’re giving children not just a home, but a hopeful future.
With love and gratitude,
NECO Foundation
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