On December 25th, all Umbrella children and youths in Kathmandu made their way to Tribhuvan University grounds for the yearly Christmas Cup football tournament. Annapurna’s A Team and the Youth’s… More »
News of 2012
Maya (Denmark) at sunrise on the Ghorepani Trek in Pokhara. Umbrella Trekking has launched successfully in 2012 with 5 expeditions booked on 3 different routes in our first season! Seven of… More »
2012 has been a landmark year for reintegrating children in Umbrella – with 156 children reintegrated to date! Read all about re-integration – what it is, why we do it… More »
As the youngest member of the Sagarmatha House family in Umbrella, Kopila is doted on by her sisters. And with a smile like that, it’s hard not to! Last week,… More »
Return to Rasuwa (November 2012) Sitting atop the bus to Rasuwa, I was full of emotions. It had been 18 months since I was there before volunteering in the… More »
Dashain Trip 2012 (October 2012) What a week to arrive in Nepal, smack down in the middle of Dashain! Many of the kids had gone back home to… More »
(from right): Fr Eanna, Stephen, Kian and Philip in our Kanchenjunga home, where they were volunteering (August 2012) by Stephen Gaffney This summer I and nine other students from Terenure… More »
A group shot of the Umbrella Youths graduation trip to Jhule (July 2012) All Umbrella Youths who had recently passed their School Leaving Certificate (SLC), thanks to the help of… More »
