Entries from September 2008

September 30, 2008

Give opportunities: infrastructures

The main area where we are working is Timal (KAvre District) where there is no electricity. It means people has not opportunities to develop, to create cottage industries, to have a future. Many people is forced to migrate because in the hills there is not chances for a better life, to have children well educated, to receive [...]

September 30, 2008

Community Development: buffalo project

  Development means to enhance the building capacity and human capital of the community in which projects are implemented. It means to involve people in all stages of the project to discuss needs and problems, to find together the means to face them, to analyse the outputs of activities, to modify them in sharing experiences, to [...]

September 29, 2008

Health

In January 2006 we signed a cooperation agreement with Dhulikel Hospital, one of the best managed and community oriented health structure in Nepal. This cooperation is directed to integrate children support activities we are doing in the area.
In Timal some Health Posts should operate and Dhulikel Hospital is managing a Health Center in Bolde Pediche. No activities [...]

September 28, 2008

The stakeholders

We believe that our first reference has to be the people where projects are implemented. With them we must share our ideas, together we have to study and implement projects and activities. We must permitted to them to be involved in monitoring and control how the activities have been implemented.
In all activities in the field [...]

September 28, 2008

Secondary education and 10+2

 Progressively, in 2005 and 2006 we extended our support to secondary schools. We answered to a request coming from people which desired to give better education to their children. Furthermore foreign sponsors give help to children form ECDs to primary and they requested to go on with educational support to them. At the end of [...]

September 28, 2008

Quality in education and human capital

   During our work we have also discovered than buildings and materials, are not the answer to everything. What is most important for development is commitment at the community level. In most activities in our projects community are deeply involved partecipating in expenditures and works.
 It means to work with people and people need to see they [...]

September 28, 2008

Didactic materials to 6000 children

When we started our work in Timal we want give practical aid to community and children. We decided to distribute twice at year to all children in ECDs and primary schools didactic materials as copy-books, pen and pencils, school-bags, etc.
We believed to support in this way the family to educate children and to sent them [...]

September 28, 2008

Bal Bikas Kendra (Early Childhood Development Center)

During 2004, many people and teachers proposed us to establish Bal Bikas Kendra. They expressed many reasons to implement this project: to give basic education to children before entering in primary school as a way to reduce repetition and drop out, to help mother in running families and agricultural works, to assure health, nutrition and [...]

September 27, 2008

with Chepang

In 2003 we start supporting one school\hostel  for Chepang children in Chitwan (Narayangarh) and one years later we opened a new one in cooperation with Little Flower Society.  Fr.Michael Chirayath was the promoter of this activity which now give opportunities to more than 300 children. He wrote in 2003 proposing the Project:
  The Chepangs are one of the [...]

September 27, 2008

Our story

  In 2003 some italian volunteers, Barbara, Enrico, Fabio, reached after a long walk Thulo Parsel. They met Salam, Dhane and other local people who were already working in small projects for improving education in the area.
  The volunteers started to sponsor around 300 children in Kali Devi, Shree Mangkal, Bal Bikas), all primary schools located in [...]