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24th April 2011- We have now built our third community learning centre. This is located in a village where most people are dalit caste. This was built by the women's group, and a group of Second Base participants from New Zealand. It was funded by Second Base, a private donation from Cathy and Kevin, and the women's group themselves.
17th April 2011- We look forward to welcoming a group from New Zealand tomorrow to complete the construction of our third learning centre. A volunteer, Jasmine, is about to commence the village survey, the first stage in the model village selection process.
4th April 2011- A group from Second Base have recently visited, and thier efforts, the efforts of the Kumiya community, and financing from Jacob, has meant that the road improvements in Kumiya are finally complete!
13th March 2011- Martina, a volunteer from Egypt has arrived to teach English and to use her skills as an artist to create displays to boost the tourism potential of locally run community forests.We look forward to welcoming a Second Base group to extend the road improvement scheme in Kumiya at the end of the month
25th February 2011- We have welcomed Kala, our volunteer from Malaysia, who has come to teach English in Patalahara learning centre and has brought lots of materials kindly donated by her friends and colleagues. The toilet at Ganganagar has been completed and now the villagers are eager to build a learning centre, which funding is needed for.
10th February 2011- The toilet in Ganganagar is almost complete. The villagers in Kumiya have completed the second stage of the road improvement project. We eagerly await Second Base Delegates in March when the road wall and widening will be completed. We have said goodbye to our volunteer Sophia, a qualified nurse who has worked in our community health post.
7th January 2011- Thanks to a donation from FACE Nepal supporter Jacob, the villagers in Kumiya are in the process of extending the improved road through the village. This will protect crops and will increase safety for the 1,000+ school children who use the road every day. We have also started construction on a toilet in Ganganagar, thanks to a donation from Kevin and Cathy. This will provide public toilet facilities for people who currently have no toilet access.
1st January 2011- We are now in Nepal Tourism Year 2011. This is a major initiative involving Central and Local Government, local communities, private companies and NGOs to bring more tourists to experience the beauty and culture of Nepal for the benefit of the Nepali people. FACE Nepal's managing director has been appointed to the local tourism board and we hope to provide support in 2011 for projects which will benefit the community as part of Tourism Year 2011, as well as bringing volunteers here to experience the real Nepal.
29th Dec 2010- The villagers of Kumiya are finalising the road improvement, with financial support from a FACE Nepal donor. This will provide safer journeys for the villagers and 1,000 children that attend school in Kumiya. We are also looking forward to welcoming new volunteers to work at Health Posts and teach English in January
28th Nov 2010- We have placed volunteers in Hanumanager Lower Secondary School, where they have been made to feel very welcome by teachers, students, and the management committee. We are creating proposals for funding, based on community requests, for a library, a road extension, and toilets.
15th Nov 2010- We have welcomed back our volunteer Staci, who will teach English in the community centres at Patalahara and Kumiya. We hope to place volunteers in a Government school in Hanumanagar to help teachers there with English and IT classes
2nd Nov 2010- We have just said goodbye to a number of volunteers. Our American volunteer, Lauren has returned home after spending two months at FACE Nepal teaching English to children in our community centers and in the local Government school, and has made a significant impact on these children. Jessica and William, who were our first volunteers to work in the Himalayas, have completed their project at Helambu, where they taught and assisted with improving the school IT Facilities. They made such a great impact on the communities there that we now have the relationships in place to allow future volunteers to work in this exciting area. Work continues to progress at the Kumiya Learning Centre, with a new tin roof installed, and thanks to a generous donor, a toilet installed. The village now has a number of ideas to make the most of these new facilities, and we hope to work with them to deliver this. A new volunteer, Daniel, has joined us for six months, and we have also been pleased to welcome Ann, a member of the International Board of Directors and former volunteer who has been working to gather information for the newsletter, and to continue to improve our office organization.
Community Projects under consideration for 2011
Extension of wall for road in Kumiya
Development of local community forests as a tourist area to boost incomes for poorer villagers
Library in Community Centre and provide volunteer librarians
Plantation Project involving volunteers
School Painting Project involving volunteers
Installation of new, public, toilets in more villages
Volunteer Projects available with FACE Nepal
Teaching English Volunteer Project
Office Management Volunteer Project
Construction Volunteer Project
Environment Volunteer Project
Health Specialist Volunteer Project
Find out more about our exciting volunteer programs
Face Nepal in 2010
FACE Nepal facilitated the construction of various improvements to the road in Kumiya. This was done through the hard work of the villagers, FACE Nepal volunteers and Second base participants, as well as generous donations
The community centre in Kumiya has been further developed. Villagers fitted a new tin roof with funds they raised through a cultural concert. A generous donor provided funding to enable a toilet to be installed.
We have had a large number of volunteers this year who have participated in programmes including teaching English, working with children in an orphanage, road construction, office support and health and hygeine awareness. Details of all the volunteers' work can be found in our 2010 newsletter (see link at top of this page)
We have successfully placed our first volunteers in the Himalayas, in Helambu. We are thus pleased to be able to offer this popular location to our volunteers. Volunteers should be aware that the program fee is more expensive in the Himalayas due to the incresed logistical costs of getting volunteers to Helambu!
For more details of all the work done in 2010 please see our newsletter
We now have three girls, who otherwise would not be able to afford to go to school, sponsored by individual donors. We hope to expand our sponsorship program to cover more children in 2011
Community Projects Completed by FACE Nepal and its volunteers in 2010
Road Improvement Project in Kumiya
Child Sponsorship
Toilet Construction Project in Kumiya
Health and Hygeine awareness project in Kumiya led by volunteers
Volunteer Orphanage Workers
Office Support Volunteer Roles
Volunteers teaching English in Kumiya and Patalahara
Face Nepal in 2009
FACE Nepal welcomed back the Second-Base team this last September to build the Indigenous Women's Centre in the Tharu village of Kumiya. The project was completed in an amazingly short time - only 4 days! This illustrates that, along with the second-base team's generosity and tremendous work, the villagers are proactive and indomitable and able to work collaboratively to achieve their aspirations.
The Centre is now being used by the community, and children and young adults attend English language classes which are run by our FACE Nepal volunteers.
With the great enthusiasm of our volunteer from Vancouver, Julian, FACE Nepal has helped to gather data in the Park and has conducted a survey in Kumiya to establish community concerns and priorities. One of the main concerns highlighted by the survey is the state of the roads in Kumiya. Consequently, the whole village was involved in a 'Clean-up Day' where roadsides were prepared for sidings to contain the gravel surface, potholes were filled with earth, litter was collected and temporary litter bins were made. A competition was also arranged for the children who won prizes for collecting the most rubbish from the road and roadsides. Discussion of burnable and recyclable refuse is a classroom topic to reinforce the message of safe garbage disposal.
A formal proposal for funding for building the sidings and repair of bridges across irrigation channels has been completed and preliminary work on the roadside culverts and irrigation canals will begin in April of 2010 and the proposal will be sent out to further prospective donors.
Community Projects Previously Completed by FACE Nepal
Learning Centre Project in Patalahara
Health Camp in Patalahara run by volunteers
Drinking Water Project in Ganganagar
Toilet Construction Project
Volunteers working in Disabled School
Face Nepal in past years
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