Dream Center
For years many of us at Tiny Hands have envisioned forming a Tiny Hands community. Our idea, which we have been calling the "Dream Center", is a community of children's homes, a school, a medical outreach center, and a vision center, where volunteers and friends of Tiny Hands could come and participate in an active, thriving community of believers who live and learn together as followers of Christ.
And for years this h
as been only an idea - but finally, we are taking steps to make this a reality. Land has been purchased outside of Pokhara, Nepal, where we are beginnig to build the first homes.
Watch the video to learn more about The Dream Center Project and see the progress that is being made.
The principles and practical considerations are:
- Community: We plan to build 6 or more children's homes, similar to our current homes, on this land. Each will be separate and discreet family units who will live as friends and neighbors.
- Education: An on-site school will be built for the children of Tiny Hands that will also be open for children in the greater community. Our goal will be to educate and inspire the next generation of leaders in Nepal through novel educational methods rarely found in Nepal. The teachers and administrators will be a combination of Nepalis and expatriates who desire excellence in education that goes beyond the rote memorization that plagues many schools in South Asia.
- Outreach: Our goal is not to create a community insulated from its surroundings, but rather one that seeks to serve its neighbors. As a an organization of Christians, our goal is to exemplify the humble and sacrificial love of Christ to the suffering and broken. Our plans include building a center for medical and dental outreach on the site that will partner with rural churches throughout Nepal to coordinate clinics in areas with limited or no access to such services.
- Vision and Beauty: Beauty inspires vision, and we hope that the Dream Center will be a place not only of rest and reflection, but one that stimulates individuals, children and visitors alike, to find their calling. The Vision Center will be a building that will have housing for volunteers, a small chapel, a center for outreach, and most importantly a space where passionate people can share ideas, music, and art.
- Sustainability: While we are raising money for the land and buildings, our hope is that the center will someday be self-sustaining through the use of income-generation projects including the school, which will be open to area children. If such a center could achieve self-sustainability it could be replicated across the region. Other income-generation projects may include aquaponics (the symbiotic cultivation of plants and fish for the purpose of increasing land production), and livestock.
