Update from Nepal: A great day for Yubaraj

Just as we hoped, Puskar wrote this afternoon to tell us that Yubaraj has been released from police custody and is back at work. They'll have a chance to talk in the next day or so and we'll keep you posted as we learn more.

Our first Yahoo! donation!

As you probably know, we first read about Yubaraj in an article posted on Yahoo!'s Hot Zone website (see Link to Kevin Sites' article). The original purpose of this project was to provide Yahoo! members the opportunity to help Yubaraj. Within 5 days of that article appearing online, over 70 Yahoo members posted a comment stating that if someone could find Yubaraj, and they knew for sure their money would get to him, they'd be glad to contribute towards his education.

Giving them the means to follow through on that impulse seemed like the right thing to do: here was a boy in Kathmandu who wanted to go to school, and 70 people who wanted to help him get there!

This week we received a strong indication that we're on the right track: we received our very first donation for Yubaraj from one of those original Yahoo! readers! I'm so very thankful for this -- for what it will mean to Yubaraj, and for the vote of confidence it represents in what we're putting together on his behalf.

Speaking of donations...

... We'll soon have the ability to collect donations online through the www.GiveMeaning.com site. GiveMeaning is unique in that they pass 100% of the donations through to the beneficiary -- they don't even take a small credit card processing fee. They want to help this project succeed and are helping us create a "project page" on their website. I'll let you know in a future post when this is ready.