Projects
Namasté!
First, we wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR! May Love & Joy enrich your days!
At this moment, Nepal is starting to celebrate its festivals again. The last month, called “POUSH” (from half December until half January) is determined as an unholy month. In this month the religious ceremonies are forbidden.
Namasté dear sponsors of our Nepal Child Plan,
In the first week of November, QOLN organized a winter clothes and shoes distribution program for the Nepal Child Plan (NCP) sponsored kids and the Day Care Centre (DCC) kids.
Winter started early this year. From the 11th of November we suddenly had cloudy, rainy weather and the temperature dropped by 10 degrees.
At the moment we have 70 children sponsored in our Nepal Child Plan.
Namasté,
I am just back from Belgium and I went to Sarangkot this week to have a look at the progress of the new building of the Day care centre.
In the beginning of July they started to make the foundation. This means they make pillars from steel and put stones around the end and make it fit together with cement.
Only after this they will start with the walls! So this is a different way of working then in the west.
QUALITY OF LIFE NEPAL is a small organisation which relies on foreign support. Funds are raised in Belgium by GLOBAL CHILD WELFARE (founded in 1997 by Sabine Molemans) and QUALITY OF LIFE WORLD (founded in 2000 by Ludo Verstraete).
Both organisations are looking for donations, actions and sponsors.
Most of the men of Sarangkot used to be musicians, now they work the fields or they have become tailors.
Traditionally it was a 5-person band, called “Panche Baja”, but nowadays it is a 9-person band which is called “Naumati Baja”.
Sarangkot has not had a music band for years, for the simple reason they did not have instruments to play. Only a few elderly people still know how to play the traditional instruments.
The initiator of Global Child Welfare, Lut Verlinden, and her husband Tony, sponsor already from 2001 AVIJIT PARIYAR. They were looking for an opportunity to support also his family in another way.
The objective of the project is to give the opportunity to Sarangkot families to buy a buffalo with a so-called ‘soft loan’. A buffalo can improve life standards a lot: they provide milk, and the manure is used to fertilize the soil. Any surplus of milk can be sold.
Nepal is one of the countries with the richest water supplies. The monsoon season (4 months, from June to September) and the Mediterranean winter rains provide a sufficient amount of water. Geological conditions and vegetation help to store the water, so most of the hills have got natural water sources. Only in May and June, the hottest months of the year, is there little water.
“Watching letters getting a meaning”
The ADULT LITERACY CLASS gives mothers the opportunity to learn to read and to write.
Parents will only be able to give their children a sound basic education, and, will indeed only understand them if they can read and write themselves. In most cases it is the mother who is illiterate.
