The Orphanage

Throughout the past 7 months in Vancouver we kept constant conversation with our friends in Nepal, as well as with the Director from Mission of Mercy Canada to try and see if there was a way that foreign (Canadian) funds could find their way to that little Village in Nepal that stole our hearts.

In theory it seems like an easy thing but unless we could establish a partnership with an NGO with "roots" in Nepal, it would be next to impossible to get an Orphanage running from over here. So our friend Dale from Mission of Mercy searched high and low for many months to find a suitable NGO.

Our job was to keep in contact with our Nepali friends, to check in and encourage them and update them and answer their questions.

So many times we thought we had found the right NGO, and then for one reason or another things would fall through. And every time we had to work through the situation with our Nepali friends. This was hard, especially with language barriers and cultural differences and the lack of personability that comes with any form of Internet communication.

I tend to harbour the stress of the world on my shoulders. I tossed and turned many a night over the politics of our hypothetical orphanage.

I thought of writing a blog or talking to friends, but say what? That everything was still up in the air. That was the disappointing news.

Finally finally!!! The good news came in mid December, when Mission of Mercy USA agreed to adopt our project and help carve the path for funding to reach Nepal. They sent out some representatives to meet our friend Depak in Nepal. They visited the village and talked about land acquisition and budgets and lovely details of the like.

Dale from Mission of Mercy got back to us the week before my due date (Around Christmas Eve) to establish some idea of our level of commitment to this project, the long-term commitment; what this will mean for us.

I told him as long as I was not in the Hospital pushing out a baby we would be on the phone Wednesday December 30th at 1 pm.