You can   sponsor and help   Bon Children’s Home  in the following ways:

• Transfer money for financing the most urgent needs of the children, or for general or specific projects supporting the Home.  BCH will receive 100% of money transferred by you;
• Become a Karmic Parent in our Karmic Adoption program ;
• Support our Nyatri Education Program;
• Support our Nyatri Medicare Program (under development );
• Support our Family Reunion Program ;
• Collect and send directly to BCH clothes, shoes, toys, sleeping bags etc.;
• Support operations of Nyatri in Poland.

Nyatri Foundation is  100%  based on voluntary work. Its operating costs are covered  only with transfers  marked by Sponsors  as  intended for covering activities  of the Foundation, or when we are notified about such intention  by mail or phone.

KARMIC ADOPTION

Karmic Parents can support one or more children. The cost of supporting a child is   25 USD for  BCH school student or 75 USD for college student or a person studying outside   Dolanji. 

BCH receives 100% of your donation.  The child selected by you is informed that it has a sponsor, called by Tibetans a   Karmic Parent.  Your donation is used to finance basic expenses such as food, medicare, clothes, toiletries and other similar items.  All donations are pooled together  and  spent  on all children,   sponsored and not sponsored alike - all the children eat  the same food, naturally!  The children receive also pocket money which they can spend as they like, most often on sweets etc.  Donations of Karmic Parents supporting children who study  outside  Bon Children’s Home are generally used to cover the cost of accommodation and direct expenses on education (such as school tuition).  Children are sponsored as long as they are willing to learn - in this way we motivate children and young people to continue education in secondary schools and even at colleges and universities.  Children stay in touch with their Karmic Parents by writing letters. Parents are sending them parcels and photographs; some even visit their Karmic Kids in Dolanji.   

Karmic Adoption is an opportunity to make children happier, more optimistic, involved in their study and hopeful about their future. It also gives   the sponsors ample opportunity to get in touch with   children under their care by exchanging leters and photographs.  On one hand, a child involved in the program   feels happier knowing that somebody far away, at the other end of the world, supports  it  with  warm thoughts; on the other hand, the sponsors truly enjoy friendly relations with  their karmic children. Some of the Karmic Parents have even decided to go to India to visit the Home and personally meet their Tibetan children.   Many children arriving in   BCH are illiterate, and for this reason classes in the local school group children of various age.  Parents of the majority of BCH children are alive, but all of them suffer dramatic poverty which is regrettably a common phenomenon  in the Himalayas and in Tibet.  Authorities of BCH have hardly any information about the background of some of their young charges, because the children arrive in groups, they are very young and  hardly  remember  their homes. Please be aware that when you decide on  Karmic Adoption, you accept  moral and financial responsibility towards the child for many years to come.  In addition to monthly financial support, Karmic Parents send their children letters, parcels and gifts which increases the basic cost of sponsorship.  When a child enrols in a secondary school outside Dolanji, the costs of sponsorship increase to   75 USD (this amount can be modified in future). At this stage, the Karmic Parents are asked about their decision about further sponsoring of their child.  Therefore, when you decide on the Adoption, please consider not only your good intentions but also your financial standing.  Persons with irregular, unreliable income or without  income sources  can help Tibetan children in many other ways, for instance by supporting numerous programs of the Foundation which cover costs of medical care, purchases of various items for   BCH, funding scholarships for young people etc.    

If you are willing to support the Foundation with money, please transfer your donation to the following account : 

NYATRI - FUNDACJA POMOCY DZIECIOM TYBETU 
ul. Warszawska 31 m 21 61-113 POZNAŃ 
PKO BP S.A. Oddz. 6 w Warszawie 
Nr: 57 1020 1068 0000 1502 0083 5330.

Making a transfer, identify it with  your name, name and number of the child and your sponsor number (given to you by the Coordinator of Karmic Adoption Program ) and specify period of time covered by your payment. For Karmic Adoption, you can make one aggregate transfer for a number of months or to  arrange for monthly transfers, at your convenience. If you make payments for other Nyatri Programmes or for general operations of our Foundation, please specify   targets of your donations in transfer comments (e.g. out of the total of PLN 85, PLN 70 is the Karmic Adoption  fee equivalent to 25 USD, and PLN 15 is for general operations of the Foundation). We shall record both elements of your payment on separate forms, as required by the Treasury Office.

Please notify the Coordinator of Karmic Adoption Program on your first payment, by e-mail. The Coordinator and contact person for individual sponsors and candidates for Karmic parents is   Agnieszka Golczyńska-Grondas: e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it  

However, before you make your first transfer, please send us an e-mail confirming your intention to sponsor the  child and  specifying the manner of  payment you chose (monthly, quarterly,  twice a year, annually). 
After receiving your confirmation, the Coordinator of Karmic Adoption Program will send you your Sponsor's Number.   

The photo and brief information about your child will be removed from the waiting list on our www site  and  placed in the section for children sponsored by their Polish parents.   We can place under the photo your name as a sponsor, or you can remain anonymous. Please tell us about your preferences in your confirmation e-mail, choosing one of the following options: 

a. Anonymous sponsorship   („Adopted on  ...by a Sponsor (Family) from  ...”)

b. Personalised sponsorship   („Adopted on ... by Mr/Ms .(Family) ......   from ....”) with optional e-mail address for correspondence linked to your name. 

After you confirm your willingness to adopt your Karmic Child, the Co-ordinator will notify BCH about it. A list of newly adopted children with addresses of new Karmic Parents is sent to BCH at the end of every month. You can write your first letter as soon as the Foundation confirms your  participation in Karmic Adoption Programme. 

As agreed with authorities of Bon Children's Home, Nyatri transfers funds to BCH twice a year. After the receipt, BCH sends to Nyatri official confirmation letters which are then distributed by Nyatri among all Sponsors.  If the Co-ordinator has more detailed information about a child than the data placed on the www site, she will  e-mail it directly to Karmic Parents.   


Please  read carefully the information provided below:

Goals  of    Bon Children’s Home

• Bring the children up as persons sensitive to other's needs and as reliable members of a community;
• Making them aware that people should help one another ;
• Creating   a group of educated people with broad horizons who will contribute to  lessening the economic and social poverty of their home communities;
• Making children aware that education is a key to better future;
• Making them aware that they should cherish  and develop their vernacular culture, religion and traditions.   
   
  General Information About Children 
• BCH children come from very poor families. 
• BCH children come from Tibetan Bon families or families of Tibetan origin residing in Tibet, India, Nepal and  Bhutan.
• Their parents sent them to BCH because they did not have a chance to give them suitable education and suport. 
• Their parents did not relinquish their parental rights and they hope that their children, once they grow up and  get well educated, will be able to help their families or communities. 
• The children stay in touch with their families by sending letters every year. After graduating from school they are obliged to visit their villages.  The few families who can afford it visit their children at BCH and write letters to them, if possible. 
• BCH  aims to maintain, upbring and educate children in compliance with Indian law and educational system, and Tibetan upbringing, religion and tradition of Bon (vernacular culture and religion of Tibet).
• After leaving BCH and coming of age, children go back to their home villages, continue education or start work (in some instances they work away from their vilalges).
• Sponsors can  contact their Karmic Children by sending them letters, parcels or meeting them personally, but they should not awake in their children hopes for going abroad,     give them any messages which stand in  discord with goals and tasks of  BCH, and   create any antagonisms among children.
• Sponsors are obliged to regularly pay the declared amounts and - if possible - get personally involved in operations of Nyatri Foundation (e.g. assist  in finding Karmic Parents for other children). They  are obliged to  notify Nyatri Foundation immediately if they decide to cease sponsoring a child for financial or other reasons. 
• Sponsors accept the obligation to support their Karmic Children as long as the children continue education, if the Parent's financial situation allows so. The children are aware that they receive sponsorship in order to  get as good education and job as possible.  When the child finishes education, the parent ceases to sponsor it. 
• Individual Sponsors are expected to write letters to their children, but please be aware that children cannot reply too often due to the lack of money.  They write to their Karmic Parents once or twice a year. Sponsors receive the addresss of BCH after they are approved as Karmic Parents.   
   
  More information about operations and projects of the Nyatri Foundation,   its members,  about children, the history of   Bon Children’s Home,   Dolanji village, the history and culture of Tibet is available at the www site of the Foundation: www.nyatri.org and links provided thereon.  Do not forget to view our gallery and films!