We provide the children with a happy, stable and caring family life; giving them a good education so they can live an independent adult life free from extreme poverty.
For more than ten years we have paid education costs; provided a family home; bought their food and improved their diet.
Paid for medical, dentist and optician care; arranged music and sports activities; and enjoyed a short annual camping holiday with the children.
We have encouraged the children's social awareness, involving them in various programmes so they can 'give back' to others less fortunate.
Our older children are helped to re-connect with their village at a pace and to the extent they want. It is important for some to identify with their village culture.
Our oldest two boys are now working - one a carpenter, the other an electrician. Both boys missed so much early education and faced a future of casual labouring work.
Three girls have successfully completed year 12 education and are embarking on future career choices. They will be joined by others over the coming years.
This is remarkable and beyond anything the children could imagine or aspire to when we first met all those years ago.
Nepal is a desperately poor country and life is exceptionally tough. Children, especially orphans or those without strong family support, are particularly vulnerable.
We do not recruit new children to our home, we do not evict them at age 16, we do not bring volunteers and tourists to the home to get sympathetic donations.
Ours is a family home - not an orphanage in any traditional sense. We are all part of this large family, treating each other with respect and care.
We need to raise close to £40,000 a year to support the children, which sounds a lot (and is a lot!), but works out at £5 a day per person.
Over the next few years education and career training costs are likely to increase as these tend to be higher than secondary school fees.
one of our children reading and translating a letter from a UK Primary School to village children