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Kathmandu - Nepal, June 2011
Dear everyone,
we would like to give you an update before the summer holiday begins!
All is going well here in Nepal, although we have had a few (politically) unstable weeks with strikes, road blocks and fuel shortages. Also the heavy, spectacular monsoon rains have started which have created some damage at Hamro Gaun.
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 Although the monsoon rains sometime cause severe damage, they are of course very good for the farmers and their land. The farmers are now very busy rice planting. It makes a beautiful sight. Benjamin van Ooij, volunteer at Hamro Gaun, is also working hard in our garden using the 'permaculture' principle.
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 The health centers in Dhading have been running for a while and the health workers are now used to the work they have to do there. Cross Borders volunteer, Elly Kerkvliet, suggested organizing a workshop on the behaviour and attitude of a health worker as the girls are quite young and sometimes behave as girls of their age do, which understandably, is a very normal!
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Cross Borders volunteer, Gonny van Genderen, has been working at Balaju for the last couple of months. So far, Gonny has been the oldest volunteer at Balaju, where the children all called her 'Oma' (which means grandmother in Dutch). We thank Gonny for her time and support, and for the nice time she gave the children, and of course, for the fun outing she organized to the zoo.
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Children's Home ‘Mero Niwas’ Barhabise |
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Cross Borders volunteers Dido van Oosten and Esmee Jiskoot have turned the Home upside down and inside out during their stay there! The children enjoyed their company and had a lot of fun with these girls. We thank Dido and Esmee for their great time they gave to the children of Mero Niwas and for their never ending, energetic and positive energy!
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School for blind children |
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 During the project visit of Linda Scheppink en Lenie Schilt of the Maha Mata Foundation last January, see here teh story, we paid a visit to the school for blind children, Jana Jagriti Secondary School in Mahadevbesi Dhading. The Maha Mata Foundation is sponsoring two blind boys, Shyam and Raju, on this school. The school is a very nice place for blind children to study, but the facilities of the school are not that good and study materials are lacking.
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Partner NGOs: Empowerment |
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 In addition to only focus on the work involved in a project, Stichting Veldwerk concerns itself with the project coordinators who actually implement the programmes. This is important as our aim is to make the local NGOs as independent as possible. For example, to achieve this goal SVN recently organized a workshop on manual accounting, see here for a report.
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Scholarship programme EFF |
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 We usually send the students of the scholarship programme, who live close to each other, to the same schools. This has our preference, as we have become well known in these particular schools and have good contacts with the teachers. The schools are well acquainted with the EFF programme and see the face of our field worker, Abishek, quite regularly! The good contacts help to keep the programme running smoothly, but that other positive effects would be generated has come as a great surprise.
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Goat-Keeping project of Single Women Group (WHR); |
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S tichting Veldwerk and the Women for Human Rights Foundation (WHR) have set the goal for 2011 to provide four goat keeping training courses to 100 single women (often widows). On 30, 31 May and 1 June the second goat keeping training course was held. To read about the first, please see here.
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 The Share for More departement of the Rabobank Didam in the Netherlands started, in cooperation with OLE Nepal, the OLE programme at the local school in the village of Belbas, close to Pokhara. The OLE Nepal team visited the school and trained the teachers to use the laptops while teaching Nepali, English and Math.
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Last but not least, I would like to thank 'Stichting Voetprints voor Nepal' and 'Meneer Vermeer tuinen' for their activities to raise money for Stichting Veldwerk. I would like to say thank you as well to Sander Kloosterhof for his support to Sapana and Bijaya Tapa Magar, they have a safe home now and can go to school now, see previous newsletter for the story of the siblings. We also wish WOW (in Dutch: Waar Ontwikkeling Werkt, meaning: Where Development Works) Foundation the Netherlands good luck with their benefit dinner on 25 June in Groningen, the Netherlands. WOW Foundation is sponsoring a day care center in Dhading and will be talking about this project on that evening.
For now it's goodbye and greetings from Kathmandu. I wish you a lovely holiday and thank you for your support and interest.
Rene Veldt and Veldwerk-team, Nepal
Gironummer: 8289522 or
Bank: ABN-Amro 543703266
IBAN nr: NL51ABNA0543703266
Bic code: abnanl2a
To the attention of Stichting Veldwerk, Egmond Binnen, The Netherlands |
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