Projects

For some years Sabine had a wish to help disabled children in Sarangkot. We already had a few physically & mentally disabled children in our day care center. These kids could stay longer in our day care, but after they've reached the age of 8, they became more disturbing for the other toddlers. The teachers didn't have enough time for them, because these children need specific attention.

In April 2008 Ria Hillebrand from Holland, visited us. She is a physiotherapist and worked as a volunteer in KTM to help handicapped children.

QUALITY OF LIFE NEPAL is a small organization which relies on foreign support. Funds are raised in Belgium by QUALITY OF LIFE BELGIUM (QOLB). This organization is the joint-venture of GLOBAL CHILD WELFARE (founded in 1997 by Sabine Molemans and Marc Forceville) and QUALITY OF LIFE WORLD (founded in 2000 by Ludo Verstraete).

Nepal Child Plan is a sponsoring program for the children of Sarangkot.
This program was started in 2002 with the participation of Quality of Life World.

The sponsoring formula helps children in their education and ensures the continuity of the day-care centre.

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.

The main problem is that drinking water does not reach the population, as most of the sources are too far away from the villages.