For the second year, my brother has been fundraising a lot of money (25.000€ this year!) and travelled to Nepal together with 7 other volunteers. They are sponsering several projects:

In a monastery in kathmandu, neglected boys are sheltered and given an education. These children study from 5 o'clock in the morning till late at night (English, boeddhism, math...). Last year my brother introduced sport lessons and they just love it! Some pictures of this year's lessons: The next two weeks the group is traveling to Rathankot, a very poor mountain village. All the young people leave the village because they want to make a future in the big cities, but all that awaits them there is poverty. In this village they try to start development programms so that the youngsters have a future in their own village. And the third project is helping out with building a new school in Daman. When the parents go to work, all the little children between 2 and 7 are left on their own at home because there is no school available for them.

You can read the groups diary on their blog. The next two weeks they will spend in Rathankot and have no internet acces, but there are already a lot of stories to read, like the hostile opposition of the Nepali government to the celebration of the birthday of the Dalai Lama!