Target Group:

At present, according to an official report 60,000 resident Nepalese have either green cards or have adopted U.S. Citizenship. On conservative assumption, 5% of that number have obligation to support their old parents in Nepal. The number of such old people who may opt to stay in well organized retirement homes in Nepal will come to 3000 people.

Starting Number:

Due to constraints of land, capital and management experience we propose to start with a scheme of housing, caring and entertaining only 108 old people which is an auspicious member according to the eastern tradition.

Land:

We prefer to locate this project site in the adjoining villages outside Kathmandu or Pokhara valley, as land price inside the valleys are exorbitantly high. About 100 to 200 ropanis of land (1 acre equals about 8 ropanis) will be purchased or leased.

Capital:

The detailed cost of the project is to be worked out after deciding the land site and land costs. It will also be limited by the annual expenditure and overhead costs which is affordable for the resident senior citizens.

Management:

The whole project will be managed by professional managers with hotel and resort management experience and supervised by dedicated social workers.

Objectives:

1. Providing health and happiness facilities to the resident senior citizens
2. Providing friendly and spiritual environment.
3. Providing beautiful and peaceful landscaped park for exercise and walking.
4. Providing a reading room, entertainment rooms, play rooms to the senior citizens.
5. Providing and running meditation halls and prayer temples
6. Providing a gym for light exercise.
7. Providing and cultivating a vegetable garden.
8. Providing and running a small well equipped hospital with outdoor patient service for the local villagers.

Presented By:
Gauri Shankar Rajbanshi
Maharajgunj, Kathmandu - 03
Nepal

Phone: 977-1-4443555
Email: mrajbanshi@wlink.com.np