Well it is getting HOT in
Nepal! We are
averaging 30 degrees now most days and thunder storms and lightening almost
every afternoon (which by the way I love!!)
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| Me with Ashim, the youngest of the children |
Me and Phil have just completed giving out our quarterly 3
month donations by visiting the Asha Foundation yesterday and donating money
towards meat so that they can enjoy chicken or buffalo twice a week. I love
Asha Foundation, I know I probably shouldn't have favourites, but this is one
of them. I have enjoyed seeing how they have developed in the past two years
since I have been visiting them. They are now almost totally self sufficient.
What with the farm land that PoD Charity rent for them (and I've just got news
we have the funding to continue this for another year!!! :-) ), and their
livestock (cows, buffalo, chicken and one gorgeous dog), they have to do very
little shopping. They get fresh curd every day and a whole variety of veggies
from the land. In fact when I left yesterday they insisted me and Phil take
some corn and pumpkins with us!
It's been a few weeks since I last visited Asha and since
then they have started a new project. The local government development office
has started building them a huge water tank to collect water from the natural
spring behind the center. They will collect so much that they will in fact be
able to sell the vast majority of the water to the local village supplying them
with a much needed income. I love small micro projects like this as they make a
massive difference to the local communities.
We volunteer at Asha Foundation as a group every Friday
where we run fun activities for the younger children. The placement is about 30
minutes away from Lakeside in a beautiful quiet valley
just the other side of Sarankot. It's one of the highlights of our volunteers
weeks.
If you would like to join us in Nepal, to volunteer and see
the work that we are doing, please email Gemma on gemma@podvolnteer.org
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