Our results

4 Smiling Faces works to improve the quality of life of vulnerable children in various children’s homes and/or projects in Nepal. The question is always whether our help works. What are the results and/or effects in the short and in the long term. The answer is a resounding: ‘Yes, for sure!’ The children regularly tell us: ‘Our lives are better since 4 Smiling Faces started helping us’.

Scholarships

Before the start of our program, the recipients of our scholarships did not have good prospects because they had no (financial) safety net to fall back on. With our scholarships they can pursue further education of their choice and live in a suitable, safe place. Thanks to our support, they have the prospect of a free and independent future in which they make their own choices and shape their own future. 

In 2024, five girls are fully qualified nurses and are other alumni working as secretaries, medical laboratory technicians and hotel managers. Eleven others are currently busy training to become accountants, nurses or programmers, among other things.

DRC Nepal

• Thanks to the installation of the solar energy system (and its repairs after the earthquakes of 2015), there have been hardly any cases of pneumonia because the children no longer have to take a cold shower in summer and winter.
• Thanks to the installation of the groundwater well and pump installation, there is always sufficient water available for eating, drinking, cooking, showering and toileting.
• Thanks to our support, the children regularly receive new shoes, clothes, and school supplies.
• Thanks to the construction of the exercise and study room on the ground floor, the children no longer have to do physiotherapy in a room on the first floor that is too small. To get there, they had to climb the dangerous stairs or be carried by others.
• Thanks to a teacher for homework guidance, children achieve better school results and thus increase their chances of a better education.
• Thanks to the levelling of the playground (which was severely damaged by the 2015 earthquakes), all children can play freely again and there is more space to play and chill.
• Thanks to the construction of the practice and study room, the children can study and relax indoors in the summer (very hot) and in the winter (very cold).
• Thanks to the application of moisture-resistant plaster, the walls of the children’s bedrooms are no longer damp, the atmosphere inside is no longer stuffy and mould has disappeared.
• Thanks to the adapted bathroom, all children, regardless of illness or disability, can wash and shower independently.
• Thanks to the adapted kitchen, all children, regardless of illness or disability, can help and learn to cook.
• In addition to a physical disability, 20-year-old W. also has an intellectual disability. G. is almost 18 and has a very serious physical disability. Normally, children leave the DRC at the age of 18, because they are then officially adults. But for these two, that’s not possible. They cannot live without care and there are no other shelter options in Nepal. What remains is a life on the street, which is already more than difficult for a person without disabilities, let alone if you have such challenges as they do. Thanks to their extended stay in the DRC, they are spared this horrible fate.
• Several children have returned home after a long stay in the DRC because the situation at home has improved.
• The vast majority of young people who have left the DRC because they have turned 18 still visit regularly to let us know how they are doing.

NWCSS orphanage

• Thanks to the installation of a sewerage system and the connection to the main sewer, the hygienic situation and quality of life in and around the orphanage have improved incredibly: no more odour nuisance and the major (infection) risk to the health of the children has disappeared.
• Thanks to our support, the children regularly receive new shoes, clothes, school supplies, cooking and eating utensils.
• Thanks to an all-expenses-paid day out, the children at the orphanage have made lifelong memories.
• Thanks to the upgrade of the drinking water filter, there is clean drinking water.
• Thanks to an upgrade of the kitchen, there is now plenty of storage space, new/repaired furniture and sufficient cooking/eating utensils.
• Thanks to a few clocks at strategic points in the orphanage, the children can now keep track of time much better, which benefits their independence and self-reliance.

SHCOP After school program

• Thanks to the shelter, the children can now play on the terrace while they are well protected from the scorching sun and/or (monsoon) rain.
• Thanks to the railings on the wall around the terrace, the children are protected.
• Thanks to the water filter system, there is always enough clean drinking water.
• Thanks to the special children’s bathroom, the children no longer have to use the private bathroom of the family living above the shelter.
• Thanks to the washing area, there is a good place to wash dishes the Nepalese way.
• Thanks to partial filling of the water reservoir, which is far too deep, there is now a paddling pool with safety rails that the children can use (under supervision) during the warm weather.
• Thanks to our support, the children have all kinds of games to play with.
• Thanks to our emergency aid, we provided food parcels to the families associated with the shelter during the corona pandemic. Desperately needed, what they were (and are), especially day labourers who suddenly found themselves without work/income from one day to the next.
• Thanks to our support, the children regularly receive new shoes, clothes, school supplies, cooking and eating utensils.

Lotus Family Foundation Nepal

• Thanks to the purchase and installation of a new geyser, a hot shower can be taken again.
• Thanks to the complete renovation of the roof, the family is dry again and the quality of life in the house has been restored.
• Thanks to the purchase of a vacuum cleaner, cleaning the house goes a lot faster and gets better.
• Thanks to our invitation for dinner, the children experienced what it is like to eat in a restaurant for and cleaner results.
• By hanging shelves and drawers under the beds, the storage space in the children’s rooms is enormously expanded.
• Thanks to the installation of a drinking water and anti-iron filter, there is clean drinking water.
• The Lotus Family was able to say goodbye to their beloved Silviya in a fitting manner.
• Happiness and fun through the purchase of 3 guitars with which the children can make plenty of music.