The Holy Spirit Child Welfare Home is a non- profit NGO which was established in 2009 in Lalitpur, Kathmandu, Nepal, to provide care for children who are helpless ,orphaned, socially oppressed or abandoned by their parents. The Holy Spirit Child Welfare Home is a so called “replacement family” for children either orphans, with one remaining parent unable or unwilling to look after them or with bo
th parents unable to provide them with the basic necessities. The Holy Spirit Child Welfare Home is officially registered with the government of Nepal with registration no. 3002/291. It is also active member of the social welfare council of Nepal ( affiliation number 29144). The Holy Spirit Child Welfare Home does not get any economical support from the goverment of Nepal and it is not affiliated with any political organization.It currently relies on private donation. The Home, as a registered charity, it is frequently subjected to financial and quality control from the Nepali social authorities. The secretary of the home, Laxmi Sunar, and her sister Renu, where themselves raised in an orphanage because their parents had not the means to keep them in the family. This gave them a first hand experience of the shortcomings of the traditional orphanages and gave her the will to create a place the children could call family. Although all the family is involved with the children, up to now they have worked without a salary and live with the children
Laxmi Sunar adopted the Christian faith as an adult and by her own decision, but the Holy Spirit Child Welfare Home is not a religious institution, it is not supported by any religious organization and children are not introduced to any religion.
