MEPO Plans a Return to Nepal to Offer Earthquake Relief Aid (May 2, 2015)
[This email was sent out to MEPO friends on April 30, 2015.] It is in the face of sudden natural disasters such as the one that has happened in Nepal that we need each other the most, and our altruism is a gesture that shows that we are of the same human fiber and...
Robbery in Kabul at the Orphanage (April 29, 2015) – Help Needed
Unbelievable Robbery at Our House of Flowers Orphanage in Kabul The earthquake in Nepal on April 28 was unexpected, and the scale of its disaster has kept the caring people of the world bewildered. The House Flowers in Kabul has also experienced its own kind of...
Annual Report for 2014
[To download a Word version of this report, click on the link: House of Flowers Annual and Financial Report for 2014 House of Flowers Annual and Financial Report 2014 Overview For nearly 13 years, since autumn of 2002, the House of Flowers in Kabul has been a...
New Budget and Critical Funding Appeal Ideas (April 20, 2015)
Funding Appeal for the House of Flowers for 2015 Thanks to consistent support by donors and a few foundations, the past few years at the House of Flowers have been financially stable. Now that we are into 2015, we are reaching out to the friends of the House of...
An Afternoon Outing – Making Childhood Memories (April 2015)
Do you remember the thrill of your first visit to an amusement park? Now the children of the House of Flowers will also have such memories, thanks to the efforts of the staff who organized an afternoon outing last week to Paghman near Kabul. The amusement park is...
Winter Newsletter March 2015 – Reunions, the New House, the New Teacher…
On March 1 we sent out our winter newsletter. Please find it at the link below. It is full of good news about the children and some who came back to visit, our new teacher Basira, and the beautiful new house the children are now staying in. House of Flowers newsletter...
Life and the changes that it brings… (Feb. 2015)
All is well at the House of Flowers! It's been a peaceful past few months with some of the usual changes that life brings: Winter was bearable, with the children staying warm and enjoying some holiday time. During that time, one of our girls, Farah Haz, came down with...
Fall Newsletter Nov. 2014
Please click on the link below to see the latest newsletter as sent out to our donors and friends. If you would like to receive updates, please contact us! House of Flowers newsletter Fall 2014 For additional pictures, please see the previous post.
Lots of New and Great Pictures from the House! (Oct. 28, 2014)
It's been a bit of a quiet spell, with 'life as usual' at the House of Flowers: no big news, which means life is a happy normal! Around the House, Afghan politics and security issues continue to swirl, but otherwise, inside the walls of the House of Flowers, all is...
26) High school graduates and new girls at the House… (May 2014)
The election is over and life goes on in Afghanistan, especially at the House of Flowers. The last months have been stable in the way that makes it possible to say that nothing remarkable has happened, and life is just about as normal as it can be! The children play,...