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19
Feb
- Video of the pouring of concrete
floor
at Hope Centre in Gulmi, really
interesting how they do this in Nepal,
with lots of people, this is one big
pour and they do it all in one day,
starting with filling the columns.
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for Video |
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6 Feb - Photos
from Ganga
(click for all) - "Please
find attached photos I took at Hope
Disability Centre. How sad are the lives
of people with Disability in Gulmi
district. Our Hope Centre building looks
great, soon the slab will be put on the
second floor. All these patients came in
Hope Centre today. Hope Centre employs a
man who, amongst other things, grows
mushrooms for sale. This year there has
very good training for mobile repair and
mushroom growing. Twenty people with
disabilities from ABILIS and also twenty
people took loans. Soon we are going to
start sewing and honey making training.
Thank you, supporters, so much for your
great efforts! " |
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5 Feb - The
Fundraising event held by Gulmi Jilla Samaj UK event has
raised a total
of £11,124.68
for the Hope Centre in Gulmi. The money
has now arrived in Hope's bank account,
a total of Rs 14,00,000 which is
around NZ$22,000 a fantastic amount and
part of this money will be used to buy a
small ambulance (Suzuki, Maruti or
Mahindra Jeep) to transport patients to
and from the Hope Centre. Thanks so much
Gulmi Jilla Samaj UK for
the fundraising. |
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2
Feb
- Ganga is
selling the first Mushrooms grown at
Hope Centre Nepal, This is a project
supported by ABILIS Finland to train 40
disabled persons at Hope Centre Nepal
and then back them up with micro-loans
so they can buy materials, pay rent for
premises, and also buy tools
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enlarge photo -
More mushroom photos here |
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2
Feb
- This young
man (25) came to Hope because he was
100% deaf
after testing him they thought, but
trying a hearing aid after cleaning his
ears full of wax, Ganga tried to
communicate with him but she found he
could hear, but couldn't speak for all
these years . Click to
enlarge photo |
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1 Feb -
Michael
a chartered
accountant from London is volunteering
at the Hope Centre in Nepal at the
moment. He is teaching computer skills
for staff, mainly spreadsheets but also
backing up files, etc. Click to
enlarge photo |
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20 Jan
-
Hope Centre Gulmi report for ABILIS
sponsored training project in .pdf format
Include stories of successful trainees. |
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8
Jan 2012
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Click on image see photos of the
construction of the second floor pillars
of Hope Centre, Gulmi, Nepal.
This project is sponsored by an
Australian lady. |
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7 Jan 2012
-
Click on image to read
interview published in UK Everest Times
about Ganga Rayamajhi, the manager of
Hope Centre, Nepal during her visit to
the UK in December. |
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20
Dec - Today
Ganga had a 2 hour long TV
interview for a documentary.
Lots of questions about the fundraising
and her background. As soon as we can
hold of the video we will publish. Ganga
is very happy in London for the
International Disability Day
celebrations and that so much funds have
been raised by all Nepali People. Please
click on image for Ganga's speech video,
its all in Nepali though. |
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19 Dec
-
The Fundraising event held by
Gulmi Jilla Samaj UK event has
raised a total
of £11,124.68
for the Hope Centre in Gulmi.
Ganga also visited some of MEND's
sponsors in the UK. New photos have been
uploaded, please click on image to see
then all. |
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30 Nov
- Ganga, the
manager of Hope Disability Centre, Gulmi,
Nepal and her companion have arrived in
the UK as guest of Gulmi Samaj UK which is organising
a dinner and dance party fundraising on
4 Dec for Hope Centre, she will stay at
the home of Chairman Mr. Thapa.
Photos of her trip added to the Photo
Gallery - Click on Image to view, new
photos will be updated as we receive
them. |
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25 Nov -
A great slide show about Ganga and
Hope Disability Centre, Gulmi
with lots of interesting photos. These
images are from a Powerpoint
presentation that Ganga will present at
the Gulmi Samaj UK fundraising on 4 Dec
in UK. Made by Nina Wells.
This
is actually the best presentation to get
a good idea of what is happening at the
centres.
Click on image to
view the slides. |
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24 Nov - Anna
Penrose (UK) is a great
fundraiser for MEND and Hope
Disability Centre. Anna will
meet Ganga when she is visiting the UK,
invited by Gulmi Samaj UK which is organising a dinner
and dance party fundraising on 4 Dec
2011 for Hope Centre, Gulmi,
Nepal. Ganga will meet several other
supporters during her short trip. Click
on image for link of Anna's nomination
to carry the Olympic Flame with Lloyds
TSB in the London 2012 Olympic Torch
Relay. |
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21 Nov -
A generous donation from an Australian
lady allows us to start building a
second floor on the Hope Centre building
at Gulmi. Work will start soon. |
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26 Oct -
ABILIS Finland has granted funds to
train 40 disabled persons at Hope Centre
Nepal ... and then back them up with
micro-loans so they can buy materials,
pay rent for premises, and also buy
tools. So the first training was in
mobile phone repair and there are 12
disabled persons doing that for 2
months. And 12 persons attended the
mushroom farming training held at Govt
Agric Centre. Each trainee went home and
made 5 plastic bags with boiled straw
inside and the mushroom spores were
inserted through holes in the plastic..
so after 1 month VOILA! Lovely white
baby mushroom. At $4/kg that will be
good business because few are growing
them there.
So now they need decent
sized tunnels that are quite dark inside
and yet moist which we help with the
black plastic and the seeds for shitake
mushrooms... grown separately and the
marketing. We have one tunnel being made
at Hope as the pilot!
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for more photos |
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15 Oct - Sam (left)
donated the five magnifier for partial
blindness and three Blind stick which
can be folded easily. Ganga, the manager
of Hope Tamghas on the right and Hope's
center Physiotherapist Pradip Rai
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for more photos |
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14 Oct -
A poor epilepsy woman received
a loan from Abilis to buy 2 pregnant
goats. Rather than Hope have to pay
regular bills each month for a patient's
medicine. ( which we sponsor if they are
very poor.) it is better to plan a
micro-loan so that they can start their
own small business.. so they can buy the
medicine with their own funds. So two
pregnant goats will soon be 6 goats,
since Mama Goat has two babies within!
And a pregnant goat costs $125
each...with 2 babies. So the goat herd
of 6 will be worth $825 in 6 months...
In Nepal if someone can earn $!00 per
month that is a minimum but decent
salary! Goat farming suits the drier,
but grassy parts of Nepal where few
other businesses can be started.
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26 Sept
- The small girl fell from a house roof
to ground... and now needs lost of
physiotherapy to get her walking
better... but her mother is not so
active to do her part.. so she needs
counseling to get more involved!
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25 Sept
- Photos just taken of 20 Army boys all
tidying up our access road to Hope
Centre, Nepal, what a great resource and
no one seems to call on the Army to help
and these boys all want to come EVERY
DAY! We had a grant from the local
council of NZ$1000 to level and gravel
the road... and now a top finishing of
harder limestone gravel will be done
soon..
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here for
photos |
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16 Sept
- Hope Centre team held a camp in Naram
village 25km from the centre. Julie and
Marcus' motor bike took them there...
lots of kids with wax and pain in
ears... all sorts of disabilities... we
now start working on those cases... some
needing big surgery so they can walk...
also a bench chair we want to have made
for INSIDE Hope for visitors.. Also the
6 am local kids coming for some extra
tuition at Hope.. given by the
physiotherapist for 2 hours... kids here
all want to learn more as they have
homes and environments with little
opportunity to do so....
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15 Sept
- Sita had her 2nd operation on the
other clubfoot
Click for Photos
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14 Sept
-
September newsletter Hope Centre
(pdf)
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12 Sept
- Gulmi Samaj UK is organising a dinner
and dance party fundraising on 4 Dec
2011 for Hope Centre, Gulmi,
Nepal. Please check out their website:
Gulmi Samaj UK
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image to enlarge.
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5 September - See
great clay & stone cooking fireplace at
Hope Centre Nepal, made by volunteers
Sarah and Nicola from NZ but working in
Australia!
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enlarge
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1 Sept
-
Rob is back at Hope
Centre in Tamghas,
find him on Google Earth image -
More images |
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11 Aug
- Nina Wells
has completed a video for ALTSO about
Teke with footage supplied by Rob
Buchanan and MEND, click on Image for
video in YouTube. |
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27 May
- Nepali volunteers Graham and Jenny Wigley
have sponsored Ganga Ghimire, she is the girl who was cataract blind almost from age
1 and at age 13 both eyes had Hollows intra ocular lens inserted.
Last year the Treasurer Brian and Judith and MEND each paid a third of her costs.
Rob visited Dab Bahadur's school yesterday and took a few photos of Ganga..
looking happy.. and slowly moving up classes.. as you can see she is still in the smallest classes..
New
photos of Ganga in Gallery.
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25 May
- The Charlie Runners, Charlie and
Wendy, Julie and Marcus, Anna, Katie and
Jennie, the UK supporters, raised £600
on Sunday 22 May for the Hope Centre in
Nepal . Charlie organised a run 2 years
ago which helped raise 33% of the
building cost of Hope Centre! The run
was in the Curry Mallet 10km loop, in
Somerset, near Taunton. Julie came all
the way from
Peterborough for the run, its about a
6hr drive away.
Photos in Gallery. |
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23 May
- Ganga is just fitting a young girl
with a hearing aid, she had not heard
much in last 5 years after some
infection in the ear, so she is happy.
Rob has been making these standing
frames which hold up kids who otherwise
flop over, this boy is getting stronger
every day, he calls Rob "father:"!
Photos in Gallery.
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21 May -
A woman came to Tamghas in the ambulance
from Chitwan with husband and friend, a 6
hour drive... after referral by friend in UK.. so that all happened in 3 days!
This woman had some accident.. then hemiplegic..
so she is sitting too much.. in fact 4
years.
She has big bed sore.. that needs careful
care.. they can get bigger and cause loss of her life.
Bed sores are not easy to get rid of and so sitting in wheelchair in hot tropics can make that
fatal. The physiotherapist has advised her NOT to use
wheelchair. She has one good leg and should get
exercise and needs a PT to help her each day back in
Chitwan.
So we will need to find her a physiotherapist
there. Click on image to enlarge |
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16 May - Fitting hearing aids at Hope Centre Nepal. Checking for infection or wax build-up which will need treatment first. Testing hearing levels with a screening audiometer to make an audiogram. Fitting a donated behind-the-ear hearing aid or in-the-ear hearing aid.
Click on image for photos
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15 May
- An assessment camp was held in Dhorkot
village about 20km from Hope Centre in
Nepal. Access was by Jeep. Rob and Ganga
were assisted by Chief District Officer,
and two doctors. Ganga and Rob saw a
whole range of disabilities. Ganga had
to walk down a steep hill to get there
in hot sun.. and testing a girls' ears
who just suddenly lost her hearing 2
years ago.. but we think can get much
back with a hearing aid we will fit
soon..
More photos in Gallery. |
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10 May - Ganga's (Hope
Centre manager) youngest sister Sita ran
away with handsome man... and married a
year ago... after baby was born she can
regain face by another wedding at family
house... so that happened yesterday..
See the photos.. |
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6 May - Jim,
the webmaster has been talking to Rob
via Skype at the Hope Disabilty Centre in
Nepal where he is working at the moment,
Rob was joined on Skype by Teke Bohara, the
14 year old who had surgery on both
feet and his sister Radhika who speaks a
little English. Rob will take some
photos around the Hope Centre to give us
a better impression of what life is in
the area. Click on image to enlarge.
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28 April
- Teke is a great kid (he says
he is now 14) and has no parents.. he
was staying with his grandparents in a
village. He now stays at the Hope Centre
and he is having to wash his own clothes
and dishes to help us .. and soon how to
cook.. as Nepali males don't cook much.
Second
day now at a new school .. and they even
have a school bus to collect him and
others from Hope Centre. He stays at
Hope and is being sponsored by an
Auckland teacher Sam Buckley. Before and After operation photos of
Teke Bohara's disability |
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29 March -
Pauline and Mark travelled to Nepal and
India in 2010 and worked at the Hope
Centre at Tamghas, Gulmi, Nepal. They
made a great Blog of their experiences,
well worth to read and check the photos.
It starts when they arrive in Nepal with
a Culture Shock |
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27 March -
Photos of Bishnu Shrestha, the first
person to have the hands fitted supplied
by ALTSO -
More |
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17 March 2011 - I am
Ganga from Hope Disability Centre. Today
we had a big event, all local media and
Nepal Television people came to film and
inspect our Hope Disability Centre.
Also today the Gulmi
Jilla Samaj UK, a charitable
association of Gulmi people in the UK,
visited us from U.K. and they handed over
a donation to Hope Disability Centre of
Rs250,000 (US$3500) They are very nice
people and we gave them respected Nepali
Sal Award. The U.K Nepali committee told us
to use this money to buy 10 Hand land (means 10 x 18",
1 hand is the Nepalis measuring of distance from fingertip to elbow)
for a playground, which we want to make this
year. We do not have any play ground at
the moment. U.K Nepali Committee will be helping more and next year they will be donating an Ambulance or Van.
I also invited Man Jaya Ram Subadi from Kathmandu because he gave a personal donation of Rs 50,000 ( US$700)
In his speech he thanked the Hope Board's and Ganga's hard work,
and he was very happy to give that donation.
Once again thanks so much for our respected donors. Because of your great efforts we are able to work and be successful at our Centre. Please check out the pictures of the handover of the donation.
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here to Enlarge photos |
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15 Mar - A
Leg To Stand On ("ALTSO")
has supplied 20 artificial hands to Hope
Centre in Nepal donated by Americares. |
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Click
for Hand Evaluation Video
Click
for Hand Fitting Video
Click
for Hand Grips and Use Video
Click
for Hand Training Video
Click for Hand Photo Gallery
Click
for Hand in Action Video |
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28 Feb - Rob
Buchanan has been doing this sort of thing
for over 20 years in various parts of the
world. Nina Wells volunteered at this
centre in Nepal and also shot an update
story for BBC World Challenge on behalf of
One Planet Pictures.
This short video is an insight into one of
his projects in the foothills of the
Himalayas. |
