a2e is back to nepal again!!!!

sean would be coming back nepal again....arriving kathmandu on 19 oct evening....is so exciting!!!...we parted in nepal more than a month ago and now we gonna meet up again...in a day's time!!!!!...they r now in the train from kolkata....to india/nepal border...n then 17 hrs bus to kathmandu....n he can make it in time for the picnic with all the children from the orphanage...all these is happening as the cyclists r unable to obtain visa to go into myanmar...they can't go myanmar by land...haf to fly in...so they r detouring to nepal from bangladesh to go tibet n into china.....would be travelling together to tibet together by bus in first week of nov....i am getting excited...reallie looking forward....meanwhile i gotta clear up my room to receive the cyclists....

i m still alive and kicking....

this is probably the fifth time i am typing this entry...the page always fails to load after i finished w my typing...n it would be gone...damn it...always this prob...hope this time it would load...

thanks for staying with me...i wanna inform everyone that i am still alive and kicking...i haf been reading all ya mails...but pardon me if i am unable to reply you immediately...cos i dun get to haf internet access everydae...so sorry...but i promise i would keep u all in the loop...

thanks to all my kind donors who haf donated generously after receiving my appeal on 28 sept...to date i haf received about S$4000+ and still counting....is a lot of $$$....i haf informed that i had received more than enuff donations for the orphans at the orphanage in chabahil...and i propose for the remaining funds to be channelled to the sponsorship of children of remote areas of nepal...

i would like to inform that i would close the collection of donation for the orphans at the orphanage at chabahil...if anyone of u would like to donate money, the donation would go to the scholarship of the education for children of remote areas of nepal....for those who had donated generously....if at anytime u are not agreeable in channelling ya kind donation to the scholarship programme...do feel free to lemme noe....i would return your money with no questions asked...truly...thanks for ya support....

i haf received much support for the scholarship programme and also some useful suggestions...m currently in the mist of compiling the questions posted by the donors....i would do a write up to answer the questions as much as possible and on how the scholarship would be executed...would post the write up on my blog soon...gimme some time okie...stay with me....i haf also received some interesting names for the scholarship...keep the names coming in...i would compile and post the suggestions of names up too...and we choose the best name...is our trust fund...we shall name it...

i would like to sincerely thanks all of u for ya support in this venture....really appreciate the kind responses and for staying with me all the way....and also entrusting your money to me.....i would make sure the money would be properly utilized and go to those in need....this is my promise to u....and i would keep u all in the loop.....i would love to upload and show u all fotos but everytime i wanted to do that...the pc would haf some prob....this pc i m using cannot detect my usb port n i can upload fotos....sorry for bearing w my wordy entry w no fotos.....i would try to upload again w a better pc..would go another internet cafe.....pardon me okie....stay tuned...stay w me ya....

alrite....i would come back and update u all with the write up and my life here...take good there...would like to meet all of u when i return home....regards..warmest....though the weather is getting cold here...dunlin.....

i am still alive n kicking....

dunnoe y yesterdae morning i put up an entry to inform that i am still alive and kicking but this morning the entry was gone...but i wanna inform that i am still alive and kicking...would update my blog now...stay tuned...

i m still alive n kicking....

hey hey yo all...in case u r wondering wat has happened to me...i wanna inform that i m alive n kicking...sorry for mia for so long...i went trisuli river for white water rafting and after that to Pokhara for 5 days...the internet in pokhara was v ex..5 times more ex than kathmandu...so i did not go internet cafes while in pokhara...that's y disconnected for a while...i haf read the mails received...gimme some time...i would reply ya mails...n update my blog....stay tuned....

The Sponorship Programme...ya true opinions needed...

please find below the proposal for the sponsorship programme for the children of the remote areas of nepal...my nepali frenz, Kris has translated the proposal he had done previously from nepali to english...please read...and see if you r agreeabel to let ya kind donation go towards this cause...please read my last entry too....sorry i could not write more for the moment as the internet cafe is closing liao....but do send me ya true opinions once u see this...thanks all...btw..i haf read all the mails...so much...thanks...i may haf the air time to reply to all....but i trust that the money u sent is well received...now i must make sure the money is being utilised properly...stressful to manage but i would try my best....n dat's y need ya support n opinions....thanks everyone....would update again soon...with fotos too...i would try to upload....the internet here is truly slow....email me or post ya comments thru my blog....i need ya permission be4 i can do anything to the donations....do let me know if u haf any objectios to the usage of ya donation....i would return u the donation...no worries....thanks ya!!!!!

The Sponsorship Programme....details....

(Name yet to be decided) Scholarship
For Rural Students (or any like this)

i need a name for this sponsorship fund...please suggest...thanks...ya suggestion is greatly appreciated....

Introduction:
This programme is designed to help rural students of Eastern regions of Nepal, particularly at Bhojpur. This district is yet out of first basic needs of human beings like transport, electricity and communication. Mainly early child marriage, gender discrimination, illiteracy and rule through traditional belief are the prevailing aspects even today. Similarly, the most miserable situation is of girls that are of schooling age. They are forced/persuaded to early marriage. They are never encouraged to have complete high school education or higher studies of university mainly Chyangre and Paikala of Bhojpur. Mainly parents don’t want to see their grown up daughters going to school or college. The concept of sending their daughters to city areas of higher education is rare and colleges are there in their home village. Mostly grown up girls have common faith- marriage and finally a family life. Besides, they are never encouraged by government plan and polices, even international volunteers or organization don’t dare to approach such places, and they are at town areas like Kathmandu in large. This programme in the form of scholarship or sponsorship targets to level up this miserable parts of girls, encouraging them from high school education (grades 6, 7, 8, 9,10) to higher education so that it will bring effective result in the future of students, and social awareness in the mind of poor, innocent and uneducated parents.

Aims or Objectives:
This programme has the given below objectives for its beginnings-
- To encourage rural girl students mainly in their study.
- To create awareness among to parents of students.
- To impart knowledge that both girls and boys are equal in that area.
- To promote self respect and dignity of girls.
- To support girls and boys students in their completion of secondary education.

Catchment/ Service Area:

Eastern Region of Nepal: Bhojpure (Main backward village area –Chyangre and Paikala for where two persons have passed postgraduate study of university and 10 are undergraduates till this date and rest young generation are under high school education and most of the parents of schooling kids are even unable to write their names)

Target Groups: In the first phase the target students groups will be form the following schools:

# Shree Pancha Kanya Higher Secondary School in which around 1100 students are studying. This is one of the biggest school and students come from different cultural and ethnic background. It is a community run school and students cover a distance of 1 hour walk to attend regular classes. No transportation there.
# Shree Jalapa Devi Primary School: This school runs with 240 children from nursery to class 5. Mostly children of community attend classes irregularly because it also lacks motivation for education.

Number of selection students (minimum)
- 3 girls and 2 boys at least from 5-12 classes
- from poor, ethnic, suppressed, Dalit and minority family
- Students having interest towards study and who perform best academic results.
- This numbers hope to increase in coming days.

Selection Criteria or Rules:

The following are the most in short listing deserving students of this grant or scholarship or sponsorship (or whatever we term this programme)
- Students will write an application to the school principal in detail their family background, cast, creed, sex, religion and so on.
- School principal will recommend the deserving students in which she/he will clarify students’ economic status, cultural background, academic performance and the rest with full supported documents.
Particulars
Rate/quantity
Total
School Uniform
- Rs 1000x 2
- Rs. 2000
Stationary
- Rs 100x10
- Rs1000
School Bag
- Rs 300x1
- Rs 300
School Shoes/shocks
- Rs 600x2
- Rs 1200
Fees-admission
Exam
Montly

- Rs 200x1
- Rs 100x3
- Rs 50x12
- Rs 200
- Rs 300
- Rs 600
Misc
- Rs 200x1
- Rs 200
Delivery to village
- Rs200x1
- Rs 200
(This is the maximum expenditure chart and includes from grade 5 to 12 in average)

- The chairman of School Committee also will recommend a letter in favor of the particular student(s).
- Finally the team members of this programme will consider the selected students for grant.
- And the award or grant will be given yearly till the completion of secondary schooling in the form of school materials as given below of an amount of Rs 6000/- in Nepali currency
- IF the students remain unable to keep good academic record, the grant will not continue but will grant to another deserving student.
- Students budget (Assumed one)


Why 6-12 grades girls’ students mainly?
The reason goes as below:
-Girls are taken as reproduction machine.
-For the final removal of narrow concept of parents
-To end to concept of early marriage
-To end the concept that girls are the exclusive members of the family that they happen to go with their husband after their marriage.

7. The responsibility of team members:
- The team members of this programme will do following task with full responsibilities:
· To find the short list of deserving students for this grant.
· To monitor and evaluate this programme
· To keep all up to date records of students/ parents/ community with proper feedbacks.
· To make arrange the fund for the continuity of this attempt
· To delivery the school materials to the right persons in the targeted areas.
Team members:
1. Mr. Kris(hna) Bista, BA, Bed, MA (Goldmedalist)
Lecturer, Brilliant Multiple Campus, Chabahil.
(Krishna is the only lecturer from the above targeted field area)
2. Mr. Kumar Bhattarai
- Staff, Nepal Medical College, Kathmadnu,
3. Mr. Gyan Poudel
Student at Tribhuvan university , Kathmandu.

[As the token of the programme, a certificate will be awarded to donor with full name and address of students which he/she has sponsored/ helped along with school’s sceal, signature of guardian, principal and programme mediator yearly, plus full report of student’s progress]

( please write us the comments)

Sincerely,
Mr, Kris Bista
Kathmandu
Oct 4, 2005

The donations i haf collected so far....please read...

Dear frenz...

i had sent out an email on 28 Sept 2005 to appeal for donations for 44 underpriviledged children in Chabahil, Kathmandu, Nepal and til date..on 4 oct 2005 8.15 pm nepal time....i haf collected S$2585..n is equivalant to Nepalese rupees 103,400....wow...that's a lot of $$$...dun underestimate ya donation..cos when all the $$$ is pooled together..it means a lot...is reallie a lot of $$$..reallie appreaciate the huge n kind response...the money collected is more than enough for the orphanage to meet their basic needs...i would set aside a budget of the collected amount for the 44 children at the orphanage and the remaning amount i was thinking of setting up a fund to sponsor the underpriviledged children from the very remote areas of Nepal..but before i can do that i need the permission of the kind donors...cos is public fund...is actuallie a big responsibility for me to manage such big amount of $$$...moreover is not my $$$.....so i need ya true opinions and comments okie...that would be a great help for me...to reduce my "burden"...i am always thinking and making sure how i can best utilize the money collected and be accountable for every dollar spent....

How the money as been utilised at the orphanage so far?
i am going to be very truthful to all my kind donors here...
initially i was very overwhelmed in meeting the basic needs of the children at the orphanage and was very keen in providing for their basic needs as much as i can...however after i talked to the locals here..providing for the material needs after all is short term...wat would be more beneficial would be providing for their long term needs such as education...the amount i haf collected so far is more than enough for the children at the orphanage....i haf bought them 14 sets of single mattress, quilt blankets and covers, 10 sets of double mattress, quilt blankets and covers, undergarments for the 17 girls..3 pieces per girl...socks and towels for all 44 children...some food items and toiletries, so far i had spent nepalese rupees 25,972 for the above items....i would not be spending all the above money collected on the same orphanage as i felt that they haf received much...in fact the staff of the orphanage r starting to take things for granted...they began to ask me for things...which upsets me...i would be very firm that whatever i buy is for the children...i would set aside a budget of nepalese rupees of 35,000 to 40,000 to the orphanage....to buy the remaining necessities and may be bring the children out for an outing.... i would have a huge amount of about nepalese rupees 60,000...n i truly seek ya opinions....esp from the donors how i shd use this money...i would definitely seek the donors' permission before using the money in other areas....

currently i am sourcing for trustworthy organisations in nepal which are reallie in need to help...besides that i was thinking of setting up a fund to sponsor the children of very remote areas for their education....i haf met a nepali friend who i can trust..he is called Kris, actuallie he is my neighbour of my rented room, he is a school teacher, teaching English...he is from eastern nepal and for 15 yrs, he was in the village until he cme to kathmandu to pursue his education 10 yrs ago...he graduated with his masters degree and is currently the only masters graduated from his village .he had set up a fund with 3 of his friends to help the poor from the remote areas...together they pooled some money to sponsor 5 students from eastern nepal (Mt Kanchanjanga region) for their education, accordingly nepalese rupees 20,000 can change a person's life... however the sponsorship programme was shortlived as they were poor students then and they do not haf enough funds to sustain the sponsorship...he has done up a proposal in nepali and he has translated and forwarded to me...would be sending u all too...if u all...the kind donors are agreeable to re-channel ya donations to this sponsorship programme, i would facilitate the process of making sure that the money reaches the needy...But, if u do not want ya money to go to this cause..do lemme noe...i would return the money to u at no questions asked...i truly seek ya opinions in this sponsorship fund...do email me or send me ya comments via the blog....i reallie need ya feedback...sponsorship for the children's education would be more valuable and long term than providing for short term material needs, i admit i have overlooked that initially...and now i m trying to put the money in greater cause rather than jus buying stationary and school bags...we may not be able to save the world..but the money collected so far can at least see 5 students thru his or her education for 1 year...in order for this sponorship to succeed..i need to trust the pple here and be trusted by u all...i am glad that i haf met this nepali frenz whom i can trust....he has been helping me since i haf arrived at the orphanage.....are u agreeable to let the donations go to this sponsorship...i need ya permission before i do anything to the money..please tell me ya true opinions....i would ya money if u are not comfortable with the proposed idea.....is tough doing this alone...so i need ya support and true opinions....lemme noe soon....thanks for ya big heart and attention....