Dream #57

Dream #57

About a month ago, an old friend from Lisbon, Portugal, got in touch with me, Pedro.

Vasco Martins used to live right next to my school when I was 12 years old, and we also played together in the same football club, the Torpedos. He had a strong left foot if I remember well!

Vasco sent me a message because he noticed that, in the pictures of the children we were feeding under the #NoHunger program in Nepal (Dream #55), many of them were BAREFOOT or had very old slippers/shoes.

From that message, you may already be guessing what we did next: we put our hands to work and started planning, budgeting and elaborated a strategy to give these kids new shoes.

So, together with our friend Madan Poudeyal from Rainbow Volunteer Clun, we found a supplier of quality slippers, and we purchased 300 pairs for a total of €360 that were donated by Vasco!! We chose flip flops because they are the most comfortable shoes for the current reality of Kathmandu and because now is the rainy season too!

These images speak for themselves! This week we have already given 132 pairs and next week we will give the remaining 168 pairs!

We are so happy to see this! We truly believe this how to make things happen in our project Dreams of Kathmandu: with courage, fieldwork and transparency!

Thank you, Vasco, for the idea and donation! Thank you, Madan, and Rainbow Volunteer Club, for making it all happen in Kathmandu! And thank you, to all of you, who continue to believe and follow our projects in Nepal, even 6 years after the big earthquake of 2015.