Dear MEPO supporters, It was just 5 days ago that we wrote you in regards to the Taliban in Kabul, to update about the Garden of Flowers and about MEPO's plan to help internal refugee families. Immediately your emails and donations began arriving, with your great...

**This is an email that was sent out on August 15, 2021. Our Hope To Continue in Kabul Dear Friends, As you know, the situation in Afghanistan this week has been extremely shocking, and today in Kabul everything shifted dramatically. We wanted to briefly update you...

This was an email update sent on August 1, 2021 Dearest MEPO friends, We know that you join us in feeling very worried about the situation in Afghanistan. We wish to give you a quick update on the situation with the Garden of Flowers in Kabul: While the news from the...

Every Sunday at some point during our video chats with the GoF staff, we hear the jingle of an ice cream truck driving by playing a tinny version of "Happy Birthday." We all laugh - most people would agree that ice cream brings joy. So after the big holiday of Eid al...

Letter sent to the International Criminal Court Office of the Prosecutor at E-mail address:  otp.informationdesk@icc-cpi.int ---------------------------------------------------------- Dear Sir/Madam, Honorable Prosecutor, For the last 22 years our organization has...

How often have we seen preschools filled with garish cartoon pictures and blaring colors? As if that is all that would attract the eyes and minds of children... But at the Garden of Flowers, the walls have been gradually graced with beautiful murals and handmade...

In May, we sent out a newsletter (see The Story of Obaid's Heart) telling about Obaid, a young man who grew up in the House of Flowers and whose disability of leg paralysis (perhaps polio) had resulted in great difficulties in establishing his life. In May he came to...

*This post is  a newsletter update that went out to MEPO's mailing list on May 11, 2021. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please email us at mepo.hope@gmail.com. Let Us Focus On What We Can Do, Not on What We Can't By now, the heavy news from...

  **This story was included in a newsletter update that went out via email on May May 11, 2021. Obaid was one of the earliest children to come to the House of Flowers Montessori Orphanage in 2002.  He was then about 7 years old. Obaid was born with paralyzed...

The news coming out of Afghanistan these days is bad. Once again, headline-making violence is dominating. Women are worried. Everyone is worried. Well, not everyone. In the Garden of Flowers, 10 small children come to their new school every day to bask in the warm...