The House in Kathmandu

The Mountain fund has both a house here in Kathmandu as well as 'The Farm' as we have been calling it. It's actually a village community with 'Her Farm' located there. The house in Kathmandu was just recently built as the old place was destroyed in the earthquake last year. From what we have been able to tell they are still working on things and there are more rooms to be going up soon.

The house is a bunch of rooms connected together that look like dorm rooms. They all look out into a courtyard area. It looks like a house out of a Bollywood film. There are two 'western' toilet rooms with showers. The roof of these toilet rooms is made of metal siding pieces laid flat across the top of them. We are so grateful for modern technology and western toilets. There is also a commons area in the kitchen with a table and 6 chairs.

The room we have been placed in is on the ground level connected on both side to other rooms and right near the toilets. There are three beds, three shelves, and two rugs (mats) in the room. walls are white and purple. The room has windows on three sides. On two sides the windows are at the top of the wall and look into the rooms located next to us. You would have to be standing on the bed to see into the other rooms so it's all good. The third window looks out into the courtyard and almost spans the whole wall. It's simple but clean and perfect for what we are doing.


We walked up to the roof of the house which is three stories up. The view is amazing. On one side you see the hills which are very green and full of life. On the other side you see the city of Kathmandu which is all houses and buildings. The air is crisp and clear (probably accounting to the rain we had last night), it's a beautiful sight.

Well that's the house. Keturah will add photos that she took this morning. We are hear for the day but then will head up to the village and Her Farm tomorrow.


Jenessa