Rebuild the home & livelihood of 100 flood victims

Nepal Village Foundation team is thankful for the additional $10k grant from GlobalGiving in support of the Flood Recovery Project in Nepal. The grant has been sufficient to build five more homes that were destroyed by the recent flooding. Hemnarayan, Triloknath, Badrinath, Santosh from Tilathi Koiladi municipality and Rabiya from Mahadeva municipality are the five beneficiaries to benefit from the additional grant.

The homes of Hemnarayan, Badrinath, Santosh and Rabiya are fully completed, and they are already living in it. The home of Triloknath is 95% completed and, the remaining 5% which is mainly plastering of the walls will be completed within the next two weeks. Triloknath families are going through some difficult times. Therefore, his home couldn’t be completed in the targeted time.

To rebuild the five homes, we needed 6 thousand bricks, 50 sacks of cement, eight tractors full of concrete, 2860 square foot of galvanised tin-roof, 600 bamboos, 150 tractors full of earth, 60 cement pillars and 240 days of labour. Two full-time staff has been working on the project to ensure the project activities are delivered on time according to the plan.  Also, the chairman of the partner organisation and Krit, the project leader has been inspecting the project regularly.

The total cost to rebuild the five homes will be worked over the next weeks, and it will be included in the next report which will also be the final report of the project. Some photos of the homes are uploaded with the report.                

The main activities have been carried out in the quarter;

1. Plastering of the walls

In Nepal, the tradition is to plaster the walls with a special kind of mud. The plastering mud is made of a mixture of straw, cow dung and some other stuff. The ladies do it because only they have the skills. Now, the basic plastering of the walls is completed. To make it interesting, the ladies are making an extra effort by adding arts and colours, and this will be done over the next months.

All the families together grew eight tonnes of potatoes by using the potatoes seeds we provided. This isn’t just sufficient for them for the whole year; they will also sale some of it to make an extra income and seeds for the next year. The green vegetable gardens are still providing sufficient vegetables for the families.

1. Build more toilets

The remaining ten toilets have been completed in the last month. The local government has announced the Municipality as a faeces-free area from the 27^th of March 2018.  We are pleased to see that now 90% of the households in the Municipality have a toilet.

Financial Report of the project is attached with this report as a PDF copy

• progress_Report_March_2018_The_Flood_Relief.pdf (PDF)