News
July 14
On July 13th, 2011 there was a bomb blast at Dadar station (Mumbai) where some of the kids interviewed for “Lucky Express” live – luckily, no one was injured at the station itself but many people and animals were injured in the surrounding areas. An estimated 20 people lost there lives.
On July 13th, 2011 there was a bomb blast at Dadar station (Mumbai) where some of the kids interviewed for “Lucky Express” live – luckily, no one was injured at the station itself but many people and animals were injured in the surrounding areas. An estimated 20 people lost there lives.
June 2011
Lucky having his first meal with his brothers after 15 years.
Lucky having his first meal with his brothers after 15 years.
March 2011
In March, 2011, we plan to take another trip back to India. From there, we will take Lucky to Kathmandu, Nepal in order to search for his long lost sister. Hopefully we will find her. It would be an amazing ending to our story!
In March, 2011, we plan to take another trip back to India. From there, we will take Lucky to Kathmandu, Nepal in order to search for his long lost sister. Hopefully we will find her. It would be an amazing ending to our story!
30th of March, 2011
On March 30th Lucky took a 30 hour bus ride from Delhi to Kathmandu to meet me. From there we hired a car to drive us, 5 hours away to the district of Gorkha – the  timeless ‘Old Capital’ of Nepal. With only a map of Gorkha district in our hand – but no clear memory of the name of the little village in which Lucky spent his first years – we started our walk from Gorkha village (3914 meters / 12,841 feet above sea level) higher up through the winding foothills where the roads ended. Lucky told me that he must have grown up somewhere within a two hour radius of Gorkha because he vaguely remembered going with the neighboring kids to collect Coca-Cola bottle caps in Gorkha. Only with a tiny back-pack for extra dv-cassettes and batteries for the video camera – I followed Lucky silently and Lucky followed his intuition. Higher and higher we climbed, passing rodhendendrom forests, bamboo forests and villagers collecting firewood. After a couple of hours, Lucky sat down at an ancient tree. That was when he quietly told me that he had played at this tree when he was a toddler.
Thanks to the help of kind villagers and mobile phones…by night-fall Lucky’s life changed forever.
On March 30th Lucky took a 30 hour bus ride from Delhi to Kathmandu to meet me. From there we hired a car to drive us, 5 hours away to the district of Gorkha – the  timeless ‘Old Capital’ of Nepal. With only a map of Gorkha district in our hand – but no clear memory of the name of the little village in which Lucky spent his first years – we started our walk from Gorkha village (3914 meters / 12,841 feet above sea level) higher up through the winding foothills where the roads ended. Lucky told me that he must have grown up somewhere within a two hour radius of Gorkha because he vaguely remembered going with the neighboring kids to collect Coca-Cola bottle caps in Gorkha. Only with a tiny back-pack for extra dv-cassettes and batteries for the video camera – I followed Lucky silently and Lucky followed his intuition. Higher and higher we climbed, passing rodhendendrom forests, bamboo forests and villagers collecting firewood. After a couple of hours, Lucky sat down at an ancient tree. That was when he quietly told me that he had played at this tree when he was a toddler.
Thanks to the help of kind villagers and mobile phones…by night-fall Lucky’s life changed forever.
