A home with Serki and Laxmi
Around thirty children live in the house, looked after by Serki and Laxmi Sherpa, who founded it and raise their own child alongside them.
नमस्ते · བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།
Thirty children live here,
and walk to school in three minutes.
Yamuna Children’s Home is a family house on the edge of Kathmandu. Since 2015 it has been home to around 30 children, most of them from small mountain villages where getting to school was difficult or impossible.
2015Founded by Serki & Laxmi Sherpa
~30Children living here today
3 minWalk from the door to school
Nursery–10Classes at the school next door
Namaste, Tashi Delek
In much of rural Nepal, the nearest school is still too far to walk.
Some villages have no school nearby. Where there is one, the walk can take hours, and many families cannot meet the cost of uniforms, books and fees on top of it. Children stay at home as a result.
Yamuna Children’s Home is one house in Kathmandu where around thirty children live, eat, study and grow up together. Serki and Laxmi Sherpa run it, and raise their own child here too. The school is three minutes away.
What the home provides
What the day holds
Meals, school, chores and time to play — the same things, every day.
School, every day
Shwet Barahi School is a three‑minute walk from the front door. Classes run Sunday to Friday, from Nursery through Year 10.
Three meals a day
Dal bhat with vegetables from the home’s own garden, chapati or noodle soup at breakfast, and egg or chicken once a week.
Saturdays and free time
Football and dancing, table tennis on the concrete table in the yard, and Saturdays spent cleaning, doing laundry and helping in the garden.
The founder
Serki Sherpa grew up in a children’s home himself.
“I feel myself very fortunate to have had the chance to stay and study in a children’s home, because my family was not able to send me to school with a pencil, a copybook and books. Even now there is still no school in my village.”
Serki Sherpa, President and co‑founder
Serki stayed at the Buddha Memorial Children’s Home until he finished Grade 12, then spent five years teaching — volunteering at Great Compassion Boarding School, five months in Pokhara and five months in Lomanthang, Upper Mustang. In 2015 he and his wife Laxmi rented a house and began doing for other children what had once been done for him.
From the home’s album
An ordinary week, photographed
How you can help
Sponsorships pay the school fees and the household bills.
Sponsorships pay for school fees, meals, clothes and stationery, and they are what keeps the house running day to day. We are still looking for more sponsors.