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The number of activities that are supported by SVN have grown substantially. This means that also the workload has increased. Luckily, we were able to assemble a small team of devoted people which have committed themselves to SVN, working for local salaries or on a voluntary base. The Team operates from Kathmandu and is supported by a board that settles in the Netherlands.
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Rene Veldt, Founder/Director
Rene is the founder of SVN and Cross Borders. After completed volunteer work in Ladakh and Nepal he decided that the people in Nepal could use his help and left his home in 1999 to go to Nepal to start helping Nepali children in need. In the last 10 years there were a lot of ups and downs, but because of Rene's determination, SVN grew to become a lasting part of the development sector in Nepal. SVN supports 10 local organizations, spread over (central) Nepal. Rene determines the direction SVN and with that the implementation of the projects in Nepal.
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Caroline Scheffer, Country Representative
Caroline Scheffer finished her Bachelor in Developmental Psychology and Master in Children's Rights. During her studies she already spent quite an amount of time in Nepal: volunteering in a children's home and conducting her Master research on the social reintegration of girls who were trafficked for sexual purposes. After finishing her thesis she worked in Nepal for a volunteering organization, but now she finally started her work of first choice, at Stichting Veldwerk, since October 2011! She is mainly the central point of communication between the board in the Netherlands, the country director en the office in Nepal. Moreover she supervises the monitoring and evaluation of projects, coordinates the establishment of progress and financial reports and coaches and assists the office staff together with Santosh. Finally, she represents Stichting Veldwerk in legal and official matters.
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Santosh Basyal, Programm Manager
Santosh Basyal has studied Economics and English and graduated his Master's degree at the Tribhuvan University. After working at SVN as an accountant for 6 years he has now taken the position as the Programme Manager since July 2011. He has the responsibility of coordinating, monitoring and evaluating the project and programmes of the partner organizations ensuring that the organizations are achieving the goals and missions in practice. He also communicates between the organization and government agencies and prepares necessary documents required for the official matters.
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Gautam Maharjan , Programme Coordinator
Gautam joined SVN in November 2010 and is responsible for the coordination, communication, monitoring and evaluation of the scholarship programme. Gautam is also studying Sociology at Tribhuvan University.
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Abhishek Giri, Fieldworker
Abhishek joined SVN in January 2010 and is mainly in the field visiting the children of the scholarship programme to record their progress and well- being. Abhishek passes on the information to Gautam.
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Mingma Sherpa, secretary
Mingma joined SVN in 2008 and supports the office staff in the day to day tasks. She takes a lot of work out of our hands and has everything done before we even ask her! Mingma is also getting her Bachelor degree in Management.
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Minu Pradhan, assistant fieldworker
After the completion of a 3 months internship in EFF, Minu Pradhan joined EFF from November 2011 as assistant fieldworker. She is responsible for assisting the programme coordinator (Gautam) and fieldworker (Abishek) in the field observations and visits, collection of data and other office-related issues. She completed the Master Degree in Management and is also studying (MA) Sociology at Tribhuvan University.
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