Community support – two charity dinners

Posted on October 2, 2025 by Angus Mccoll - feature stories

FHC has run two fun fundraisers in the past few months.

On Saturday 12 July, Marcus and Fiona opened up their garden to a wonderful night of food and informative presentations, all to raise funds for the charity. It was a sellout.
Clementine Ford, a feminist writer and champion for women’s rights, delivered a powerful and thought-provoking talk that reminded us we all have a responsibility to keep fighting for future generations. Change is slow but it will come.

We raised nearly $2000, which is enough to feed all 34 kids in the FHC Hostel for three months. The Hostel can provide for 50 children so the more money we raise, the more disadvantaged children we can support.

It was an intimate night of conversation over a delicious 2-course meal that was prepared by Som and Marcus.

“Thank you to everyone who supported this special sellout event. When women come together, magic really happens.” Susan Devitt

Saturday 19 July saw Roz and Howard’s beautiful house in Edge Hill open up for another fundraising dinner. Som and friends prepared a delicious menu full of Nepalese traditional foods.

Som (FHCs founder) made a speech thanking everyone and explained how important their contribution is to supporting the disadvantaged children in Batase and surrounding villages.

“My work in Nepal is my life and always will be. My vision for what needs to be achieved is big but what we have already accomplished shows that it’s possible. FHC strives to give girls access to an education so they have choices beyond early marriage and labouring on the farm. An independent life. A life of choices.

There is another important reason to give girls, and boys, access to an education. Children from poor regional areas are particularly vulnerable to the human-trafficking trade that still thrives in Nepal.

Our aims are paying dividends. It’s been seven years since a girl has been taken from Batase village and in the last five years it has been rare for girls to marry before 20 years of age.”
Thank you to all who attended. With raffles we raised nearly $2000.