Help Keep an Impoverished Nepali Family Together

Hi, my name is Michelle. Two years ago I was miraculously able to reconnect with my biological family in Nepal, who I had not seen or heard from in nearly two decades. This is a picture of me that was taken when I was adopted.

I was sent to an orphanage when I was young because my family lives in poverty in a remote village and I was born with a physical disability. My family’s situation since then has changed very little.

My father is now too old to work but has accumulated a large debt over the years as he tried to take care of his family. Now that debt falls to my younger brother, Ramchandra, their only son. When we reconnected, Ramchandra was a migrant worker in Qatar. He was unable to bring anyone with him, including his new bride or their one-year old son whom he had never met. When the pandemic struck, my brother was fortunately sent home to Nepal, where he was reunited with his wife and son.

Unsurprisingly, for the last year-and-a-half in Nepal he has been unable to find work, even though he even desperately attempted going abroad again, only to be thwarted by the COVID-19 lockdowns.

While my husband and I have helped where we could, their situation is now too dire for us to handle alone. They cannot afford their daily needs, let alone to keep up with their overdue debts. Their mental health, physical well being and familial relationships are in serious danger.

Anything you can do to help would be a heavensend. Your donation will be used to buy food, pay rent, pay for their son's school expenses, and any remainder will be used to try to bring them current on their debt. Remember that even a contribution as little as $40 represents a week’s wages in Nepal. Or it would - if they could find a job in this pandemic.