NEWS
Keep Clicking for Chitepani
05.10.08
Four web sites that could give cash to Chitepani.
It's easy to set it up and three don't cost you anything!
www.everyclick.com
Make Everyclick your main search engine. Everytime you search the web, the advertisers pay for your clicks. Everyclick gives 50% of its gross revenue to charity each month. How does it decide which charities to support? It doesn't - you do, by selecting the charity you want to benefit from your searches. Just select to support the Chitepani Trust. It doesn't cost us or you a penny. Sounds great doesn't it?
www.amazon.co.uk.
Register as a new shopper and we could receive a percentage of the money you spend directly from Amazon. Just nominate Chitepani as your charity of choice.
www.giveortake.com
Nominate Chitepani to receive a donation everytime you shop at www.giveortake.com. There are over 500 online stores like Amazon, Marks and Spencer, Play.com, Curry's and HMV to choose from.
www.ebay.co.uk.
Sell unwanted items on line and you can choose to donate part of your sales to charity. Register Chitepani as your nominated charity and the people of Chitepani will benefit from your generosity.
White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood
05.10.08
A recent interview on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour featured Dr Arju Deuber, recently elected MP and former first lady of Nepal. (Her husband was a former Prime Minister). She was talking about the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood (WRA), a grass roots organisation with a world wide mission to build alliances, influence policies, harness resources and inspire action to save women's and newborn's lives. WRA has alliance members in 91 countries in Africa and Asia and has a working alliance with Nepal.
In Nepal, one woman dies in childbirth every four hours.
In Nepal 75% of births are unattended by anyone qualified in maternal care.
If you would like to find out more about WRA go to
www.whiteribbonalliance.org
Gallery Images Explained
05.10.08
1. Inside one of the school's classrooms before the walls were plastered.
2. Plastering the walls.
3. The children welcome visitors to their school.
4. Classes work outside when it isn't too hot.
A Visit to Chitepani
06.08.08
We were part of a Ramblers Worldwide Holidays group that walked up to Chitepani village one day last February with Tika, our Nepalese guide. He came from Chitepani and proudly showed us the Health Centre and the biogas system in one of the village houses.
As we started to eat our packed lunches on the steps of the Health Centre, three small children appeared round the corner wearing the usual Nepalese wide smile. It didn't take long for a few of us to give our fruit and cake to the children and off they ran down the dusty road, laughing as they went. A couple of minutes later they reappeared with a dozen or so older children! The rest of the group soon parted with their fruit and cake, photos were taken and back down the road to school the children ran.
After lunch Tika took us down to the school. Our first call was to see the headmaster and give him the pens and exercise books we had brought with us. On to the classroom - bare benches, breeze block walls and a blackboard. Sitting very proud were about 30 quiet children. What a perfect opportunity to record Nepalese school life! Tika asked the children to sing to us so they all stood up and sang their national song. It was beautiful and drew loud applause. The children sat down and we gave a rendition of our own national anthem. Our performance was not as good as theirs but this time the children stood up to applaud us!
Slowly we left, shouting and receiving cries of NAMASTE as we went.
It was a wonderful experience to visit Chitepani and to see their school and Health Centre,- humbling yet so rewarding.
Our visit to Chitepani was the highlight of our visit to Nepal.
Kath and Malcolm Daley
More New Loos
06.08.08
We have helped the last four poor families to build their own toilets. All the houses in Chitepani village now have their own loos.
Bright Sparks Move On To Secondary School
06.08.08
Primary education in Nepal is free but after the age of twelve years, parents have to find enough money to pay for places at Secondary School. The bright girls and boys at Chitepani Primary School are being assisted by the Trust to continue their education at the nearby secondary school.
What We Have Achieved So Far This Year
30.07.08
Toilets for two elderly couples have been built.
The plastering of the internal walls of the school has been completed. The school has celebrated it's Golden Jubilee Year.
A milking buffalo was bought to start a breeding herd.
A good quality billy goat has been bought to help improve the quality of the goats in the village herd.
Financial support was given to a bright boy who needed to win a scholarship to continue his education at secondary level and to some villagers who needed hospital treatment.
Two health camps have been held and medicines provided for those in need.
The village people have built a new temple.