Day Care

Dear sponsors,

After heavy snowfall in the mountains and a whole day of rain in Pokhara, the weather is not cold anymore and it is getting hotter and hotter every day. People are already dressed in light clothes when they go out!

The new Day care centre (DCC) is almost ready. Since the last four weeks, the workers worked very hard to finish it. They plastered the floor and cemented the last rooftop. Now they are busy fixing the doors, windows and the railings all around the first and second floor. Meanwhile they will start painting and cleaning the playground.

Namasté!

First, we wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR! May Love & Joy enrich your days!

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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.  

Dear sponsors,

The early started winter is getting colder and colder in Sarangkot, especially in the morning and in the evening!

Dear sponsors,

Finally the festivals came to an end! What happened in the last 2 months?
The most important day was on the 5th of October when they put the “DALAN”. This is putting cement on the first floor, so the ground floor gets a ceiling.
A lot of workers came to do this job. Everything is supported with bamboo.

Namasté!

As Nepal is a country of many traditional festivals, we started celebrating most of them  from the end of July.

I would like to enlighten just one of them: GAI JATRA, "The procession of Sacred Cows", which was celebrated on the 6^th of August.

The "Gai" refers to "cow" and "Jatra" refers to "gathering in procession".

Dear sponsors, Namasté,

The month of August passed by quickly, but not the building. Still, the work is continuing. To build in Nepal is not that easy, because everything is done by hand. Also, this month was the start of all festivals, so a lot of workers didn’t show up. Of course, there are always reasons not to work here!

The monsoon really started in August. This means a lot of rain, and this is also very difficult to work in.

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.

We started demolishing the building of the Day care center on the 24th of May 2009! In a week time, the teachers helped to put all the materials to another little building below the school, where they will give classes to the students.

This community building has only 2 little rooms, which is too less for 56 kids, so that’s why QOLN ordered to make a shelter (with the old stones and the tin roof from the old building) to teach.

Here is an update on the last progress of the building extension of our day care center. QOLN organized several meetings in Sarangkot, to discuss following:

Namasté!

I just want to inform you that the preparations for the extension of our Day care center started on Sunday the 5th of April. QOLN organized a meeting to discuss the map and plans of the architect.