COMMITTED volunteers Manaslu and Chris report on "the strength, the ability and determination" of the Thangpalkot villagers to pick their lives up and forge ahead in spite of the devastation caused by the recent earthquake.
We're COMMITED (to) bringing back the smiles on the faces of children of Thangpalkot and its neighbors! To that end, we have provided relief materials to the residents of Thangpalkot VDC and have begun the process of bringing the children back to school for educational activities.
As pleasant as my visit to the US this time has been, re-connecting with old friends and making new friends, the tragedy unfolding back home in Nepal has been a constant preoccupation. While my uncharacteristic absent-mindedness from the start of the journey has made me part with a number of things of little value at different times, the earthquake has taken many that are irreplaceable.
Jayjeev reports on Thangpalkot following COMMITTED's visit to the village.
As if the Nepalese people needed more suffering....
A summary of the contents of COMMITTED's Annual Report for the fiscal year 2013-14. Links to the relevant blog posts, YouTube videos and Picasa photo albums about the projects implemented are also included in the post.
The embedded video is that of the presentation I gave at Thames International College in Kathmandu. I talked about dreams, humanity, compassion, international understanding, peace and making life meaningful to a small auditorium full of students doing their undergraduate studies in Social Work.
Our fishermen in Thangpalkot harvest fish from their ponds and we complete the construction of the multipurpose court at Raithane School during our November 17-20, 2014 visit.
Summer of 2012, considering returning to Nepal for good to work in the education of children from low socioeconomic background, I visited about ten government and community school in and around Pokhara, and accompanied my good buddy Jayjeev, COMMITTED's Executive Director, on a trip to Thangpalkot. This is a video, Jayjeev made, of that trip.
A short write-up about our August 26-29 visit to Thangpalkot with Doug and Devika Grant of Tennis Trekker.