Disaster Response Nepal Project #20406

Agriculture Support in Sindupalchowk, Nepal

by The Nepal Trust

Agriculture Support in Sindupalchowk, Nepal

Project Report | Apr 10, 2017
Agricultural Improvements

By Tony Sharpe | Project Leader

Farmer Training

The massive earthquake of two years ago which destroyed so many lives and livelihoods is almost a distant memory to many of us. Not so for the unfortunate villagers of the Nepal Himalayas who still have to bear the consequences of this devastation as they struggle to get back to some sort of normality. The Nepal Trust is concentrating its efforts on education and infrastructural repairs to get the communities back to as normal a way of life as possible. This also includes focussing on agricultural support. Agriculture is the predominant way of life in these villages and provides an essential source of healthy food and much needed income from the sale of their products.

Our most recent programme, last month, was the training of 8 farmers from each of Chautara, Sipapokhare, Syuale,Helambu, Kunchok and Nawalpur VDCs. This training programme was carried out over a period of 6 days by approved trainers from the District Agriculture Development Office (DADO). Training involved learning new and improved agricultural techniques and vegetable growing.

We continue to supply veterinary services to help improve farm stock and raise the general level of knowledge of healthy farm animals. Three day veterinary check-ups were recently carried out in Kunchock, Nawalpur, Sipapokhare and Syaule VDCs.

Water and irrigation are essentials for life and for farmers. We are currently constructing a new irrigation scheme in Padera village, Sipapokhare VDC. The local community are enthusiastically working together to complete this project which will benefit 55 households and over 300 people.

Thank you so much for your support and we hope you will continue to help. Perhaps you can speak to your friends and colleagues about what we are doing and encourage them to help also. The destruction by the earthquake was massive and will take a long time to restore life to how it was. Imagine!

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Greenhouse production

Veterinary medicines

3-day veterinary check-up

Irrigation construction

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Jan 9, 2017
There is now light at the end of the tunnel.

By Tony Sharpe | Project Leader

Goraknath School under construction

Good progress is now being made and there are now clear signs of improvement everywhere. Government bureaucracy has delayed starts, but for good reason, to ensure that new public buildings confirm to earthquake resileance standards. After such a devastating earthquake the workload facing government and its officials was overwhelming. The important issue was to try and ensure that such a disaster can never happen again on such a scale.

The Nepal Trust is pleased to announce that The Goraknath Primary school in Tarkegjang village Helambu is now well under construction. Winter has arrived and, at this elevation, conditions can be quite severe so work has slowed down a bit but all is still on schedule. Foundations are in place and most of the reinforced concrete pillars have been erected. The new school will be fully compliant with all government earthquake resileance regulations. For now the children continue their education in the Temporary Learning Centres erected very soon after the disaster so the children have not had to suffer much of a disruption from their normal education.

The Kiul irrigation scheme is now complete and providing clean water for over 1200 people. Its other prime purpose is to provide a steady supply of irrigation water for farm crops and ensure that agricultural production can get back to normality and provide food and income and a healthy, wealthier future.

As the weather improves work will speed up and by our next report we should really see some light at the end of the tunnel!

Thank you to all our supporters for all your contributions to this project. It is slowly turning around the lives of these devastated mountain people who had little to start with and have even less now. You are helping them to climb that ladder to a better life but it is always the first rung that is the most difficult. We hope you can tell your friends about us and maybe encourage them to give their support.

A belated Merry Christmas to you and all the very best for 2017.

Goraknath school - foundations

Kiul Irrigation Tank under construction

Kiul Irrigation Tank ready

Villagers preparing irrigation channels

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Oct 13, 2016
Water is Life.

By Tony Sharpe | Project Leader

UK donors and water user committee - Kiul VDC

Government bureaucracy slows progress in this remote country. Fortunately local people are anxious to get some semblance of their original lives back as quickly as possible and are prepared to work hard to achieve this. Community participation is a key element in all that the Nepal Trust is trying to achieve.

We are happy to report that construction of the new school in Tarkegjang village, Helambu VDC has started and we hope to report rapid progress over the next few months. Progress and photos will be published in later reports.

A new water and irrigation supply system is under construction in Kiul VDC which will benefit up to 1500 people. The project was visited very recently by UK and Dutch donors who were very pleased with what they saw.

Many schools in the same VDC were destroyed in the earthquake and the Nepal Trust will provide temporary repairs to the school in Kiul, using GG and other funds, to get the children back to a safe environment for their studies. We are currently looking for a suitable and safe site to build a completely new school constructed to earthquake proof standards.

Rotarians from the UK have visited project sites in Sindalpulchowk that they helped to fund. These included water/irrigation schemes and electricity repairs. They left very happy and impressed with what they had seen.

The Trust will continue to focus on education and infrastructure development. This puts the support systems back in place so that local businesses can recover more quickly. Jobs and livelihoods are important for the local economy and the health of the communities.

We will continue to report progress and let you know what is being achieved. The earthquake seems a long while ago, and has been overtaken by other disasters around the world, but it is still very relevant to many thousands of hill people living close to the breadline. Thank you so much for all your support and we hope you will continue to support our work which is making a difference and getting life back to some normality.

Happy Dasain.

A new water supply system - Kiul VDC

Kiul school to be repaired

Community participation

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