P2PKids: Because We Care About Sharing
Written by Ernesto on October 24, 2007Together with p2pnet, TorrentFreak adopted 29 little children who are in desperate need for food, clothing and a decent place to sleep. The Child Orphanage is for kids in Nepal whose parents were killed by Maoists demanding the abolition of the country’s monarchy.
The building they live in is near Kathmandu and most people in the West wouldn’t use it for much more than a gardening shed.
But it’s home to 29 children aged four to 12. They eat, sleep play and do everything else in one tiny room with bamboo walls. The three beds they share also double as benches. The kids in Child Orphanage get a free education in a nearby school, but that’s where it ends.
And that’s why p2pnet and TorrentFreak have adopted the Kapan Kids. Want to help as well? Easy. Head over to KapKids.com (or p2pkids.org). More detailed profiles of the kids will be added later.
$1 wouldn’t mean much to you. But it’d mean a heck of a lot to them.
Our plans? In the short term, we plan to provide a stream of money so the existing building can be improved and upgraded and the kids can be properly fed and clothed.
In the longer term, we’ll collect enough cash to build a KapKids resource centre with an online connection and at least one full-time staff member.
More important, it’ll also be a place for children 12 and over to live until they can find somewhere permanent.
The proceeds will go into a bank account maintained solely by Nisha, a Nepali orphan who lives in Canada now, and a good friend of Jon from p2pnet. So all of the money will be funnelled directly to the orphanage. Nothing, and we mean nothing, is being hived off for ‘expenses,’ as happens with so many of these efforts.
We can use your help!
Updates about the incoming donations and progress reports will be posted at KapKids.com
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Wow. Great cause guys.
I’ll certainly donate
I’d like to see the RIAA and IFPI and BPI etc….adopt kids.
Great going, I will be donating!
lol SCAM.
SCAM. lol
A good cause, but I think you need to find a way to donate directly to the orphanage. Not via a third party in Canada. Nisha may well be on the level, but we don’t know him and sometimes people get into financial trouble, need a bit of money to tie them over. Using an agent, particularly an undocumented one, isn’t a good idea. Is there any way to set up a bank account that can be directly accessed by the people running the orphanage? If I can be sure the money would go straight to the orphanage, I will donate.
It is a good cause, so please sort this out. More p2pkids!
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[quote comment="194856"]Is there any way to set up a bank account that can be directly accessed by the people running the orphanage?[/quote]
Nisha is in close contact with the people running the orphanage. Also, she’s a close friend of Jon. I understand your hesitation but I guess you just have to trust us on this one.
Feel free to contact us (kapkids (at) kapkids.com) if you want more info!
To all the others, please stop posting the scam messages ;) this is a serious project.
Wow… You guys are fucking awesome.
I get a job next month… I’ll probably donate some moneys then.
i donated to /d/ once
i donated to oink once and all i got was a lawsuit
Good job TF :)
my kids are 7, 5, and 3 years old. a girl, boy, girl
the girl and the boy have been working already for many years, the 3 year old is lazy and does not want to work, we think she is sick we think she does not live for long
i like very much the USA. i like very much the USA idea to give me money and my children they no works. is better they no works because they can grow to be like USA citizen. they can be free
when i was a children the Maoists they come to my village and they say we must not work for the King or they kill us. so i work for the Maoists but now America is here my children they want to work for USA! America save us from all problems, and is good you send us money because then we no have to work of anybody!
Charity is for suckers
The people of Nepal thank you from the bottom of their hearts for your support of the war orphans
The orphans were making a mess on the street and now they can waer nappies so their poo is not on our feet
We go shopping everyday and the less war orphans we see the less poo on our royal toes (i like sandals and kicking poo is a hazard)
Actually being of the Royal Family of Nepal i cannot remember the last time i was in Katmandu, i live in Chelsea, London where the poo is laid by minature dogs and a refreshing change from the poo of my own country
my daddy worked for the interior ministry. he was chief of collecting taxes from rural villages. they didnt have any money so my daddy said he would take their land
then the Maoists came and they shot daddy and now i have no home because mummy is a French tourist and she left daddy when i was little
i wish i could go home. thank you for your money i am going to buy a computer and download files from the internet
the once delicate balance of poo in war-torn Nepal has been dramatically upset by foreign intervention
local poo has devalued upon the unexpected influx of foreign poo. local analysts are saying “we thought we were in the shit, then this foreign intervention arrived. just when we thought we had a local solution it all went to the shitter again”
this is Liz Ruth, your pootard poonalyst reporting from a place you have no clue what the color of the poo is
Many microgiving or microlending organizations have agents that distribute money for the organizations. There is potential for corruption, but most agents are honest. If s/he was not honest, word will get back to the donators.
Paypal currently takes a cut, but if they can join Kiva.org as a donatee, they can receive Paypal funds with no fees.
Digg To Support!!
WTF?!
Already donated. Soon, they will have enough money to buy the new Britney CD.
perhaps is better we save for a Buddha Bar CD for the Burmese orphans?
Is it a real orphanage that actually helps people or is it one run by a bunch of white missionaries just looking to spread jesus, Mother Theresa style?
Meaning making them stay in horrible conditions so that the missionaries can feel closer to “God”, and then using the money to make nunnaries back home?
Likely.
this is pretty cool. you guys are about the last people that i would ever have thought would do something like this but i think i can see your reasons.
nice initiative TF
if i didn’t think i had viruses on my comp i’d probably donate like 5$
I sent them $5. I trust torrentfreak enough to believe that this is not a scam. I hope this really helps their living conditions. Hopefully we will get lots of updates on those kids :)
i take one. where can i order?
“KapKids resource centre with an online connection” = torrent server
oinkybank is really rakin in the cash it looks like
oink is going to be able to afford OJ’s lawyer soon
LoL at #10
[quote comment="195083"]“KapKids resource centre with an online connection” = torrent server[/quote]
Nice.
[quote comment="195056"]i take one. where can i order?[/quote]
hahaha
oinkybank is really rakin in the cash it looks like
oink is going to be able to afford OJ’s lawyer soon
There is no official donation fund for any Oink user. Almost all of those are scams, and the other of the site has officially said he can not accept any donation fund.
And people, grow up. How old are some of you guys? 7, 8? Your comments really make you seem that way.
Peer to peer - we pirate movies…for the childrens!
How about giving 75% of your ad revenue to this project.
Excellent cause guys. Puts the torrent community in a good light too! I will not miss this oppurtunitty to donate!
seed
this is retarded.
i bought a video for a charity shop …… it was a work print
remember kids “piracy funds terrorism” and charitys
kick it robin hood style
Awesome, I am really impressed with the community!
“KapKids resource centre with an online connection” = torrent server
LOL NICE! We will see how heartless those bastards really are.
great idea but seriously, wtf with all those little bitches that wrote stupid comments. go grow a nut sacks, take some cash from daddies wallet and give it to these kids, they need it more than a spoilt little bast like you.
That’s such a rad cause!! I’ll definitely be donating.
STICK TO ARTICLES ABOUT BITTORRENT.
…unless we’re sending them free laptops and teaching them bittorrent.
freak is cool ‘cos he permits all views and is not with his ego on his sleeve
maybe the politics is not always right, supporting the ruling monarchy in a war-torn country is suss but keeping the dialogue channel open merits a big respect
is a brighter day
hey those kids work for nike right?
I’m very skeptical about this.
This is not official organization. And remember guys, we’re all pirates. We share and “steal”
Provide a legit organization with papers and all and I will donate $50.
That’s fantastic! I was in Nepal this past spring and met a Swedish girl that just started an Orphanage right out of the blue. She sold her car and most of her things to fund it. P2P and bitorrent is not about Stealing or Pirating its about sharing and how that’s not a crime. Its a social revolution that should make you think a little deeper about this world and its systems.
Also, to all the people who think this a scam go to Nepal or India and see the poverty there. There are a lot of NGO’s operating in these country’s and they do not all have charitable status, but the work they do is needed and needs funding.
i donated, i feel like i’ve done some good now ernesto, thank you. :D
Yeah great!
Donated too…
Greetings from (south) Norway to the little kids!
This is awesome. Way to go TF. We need someone showing the world were not horrible people :P
You can donate the money you saved for not having to buy over priced content! Brilliant!
Check out http://www.microgiving.com
Kids are our future,
http://kidzstuffz.com
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