Ketaketi and Banglamukhi House Projects

Ketaketi and Banglamukhi houses are situated on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, and are home to sixteen boys, Amas (Nepali mum), Didis (Nepali big sister), Tiger (a dog) and several chickens.

The boys who live in Ketaketi previously lived on the streets of Kathmandu and Ketaketi house has hopefully given the boys a permanent family home as an alternative to life on the streets, in temporary shelters or overcrowded orphanages. Ketaketi means children in Nepali.

The children CWIN selected for Banglamukhi do not all have a street background. These children are from the CWIN peace home for children displaced by the Maoist conflict. CWIN housed around 150 children in their peace home during the ten year conflict and once the peace agreement was signed they began to reunite children with families and send them back to their villages. However, this isn't always possible for children whose parents have been killed, are in prison or have disappeared. Banglamukhi is a home for eight such boys.

Funding

Ketaketi and Banglamukhi were set up through funds raised by friends and supporters of Yaknak. You can read more about how we did this on our fundraising page. Both houses is kept running solely by donations. It costs £12,000 a year to run the houses. This pays for the house rent, salaries for our amas, didis and Nepali house manager, school fees, clothes, food, medical costs and keeping the boys happy. One hundred percent of money donated is spent in Nepal. When Yaknak trustees visit Nepal we pay for all our own expenses. This includes flight costs.

What is it like?

Ketaketi and Banglamukhi houses are situated in Kapan on the edge of Kathmandu city. A peaceful, village community, it provides a very different atmosphere and life to that on the city streets of Kathmandu.

Kapan is a busy community with butchers, tailors, cobblers, barbers, a chemist, a fruit and vegetable market, open spaces for playing and a school which the boys attend.

We are also lucky to have friendly and supportive neighbours.