What is OGN?
"The children of Today are the leaders of Tomorrow". But what "Tomorrow" will impoverished Nepali families see…House maids, small vegetable vendors … What is the future of their children? Children born to wealthy families have more opportunities to find respectable professions.
What about children belonging to economically deprived, socially boycotted and financially down-trodden families? Don't they deserve equal rights and opportunities? or will they be denied the privileges others receive? Giving these children the tools to reach their dreams is why the Orchid Garden Nepal was born.
This is a non-profit organization with the basic aim of providing and protecting the rights, welfare and health of the children belonging to the discriminated, deprived section of our society. The sole purpose of the Orchid Garden Nepal (OGN) is to provide care and quality education for all who come here, to help these children grow, learn, discover and more over, to be a child.
To make the parents of these "orchids" realize that it was not a mistake that they were born. To make them see a ray of hope which starts to shine through Orchid Garden Nepal. The Garden is a day care and a preschool center for children belonging to parents or single mothers/fathers and are between the ages 6 months to 5 years old are taken care of. These parents leave their children at this day care and schooling center and pick them up when they are off work. The lives of our children are affected by extreme poverty. Some have fathers just for the namesake, who are alcoholics, who physically abuse not only their wives but children too.
Such abuse was the reality for a small girl, Laxmi, which sends shivers down one’s spine and describes the environment many of these children have to endure. From the time of her birth until she was 2 years and 3 months old, she lived at home with her mother only. Her father died shortly after her birth from an alcohol-related illness. Her mother was forced to leave home at 7 A.M. to work for a square meal at a construction site by carrying gravel. Upon her departure from home, her aunt would tie Laxmi in a chair leaving her alone at home, to attend work too. Her aunt would return at 1:00 pm to change and feed her. Before she left Laxmi would be tied again until her mother returned at 6:00 P.M. This child would not walk nor speak until OGN rescued her and fought against the woes of her fate. Today she is studying in a school in the nursery class and holds a position in the class.
OGN Started Pre- School
OGN has started pre-school for OGN children since April 2010. There are 150 children studying right now. OGN is very grateful to the citizen of Nepal, Holland, German and Ireland, who helped to build cottages for the pre school at OGN. Currently pre school is offering four classess, which are as follows:
1) Junior Nursery
2) Senior Nursery
3)Lower Kindergarden.
4) Upper Kindergarden
There are 4 teachers, one in each classes and have a volunteer principal ,named Geetanjali Singh with 2 helpers . Along with pre school O.G.N is also running an after school program where 25 children come every day to do their homework. We help them with their homework as well as extra curriculum activities such as yoga,dance and art.These children go to private schools outside OGN and OGN has been sponsoring them. We have foreign volunteers petty much throughout the year, who help us in the school.