A Stakeholder’s Meeting…

This past week,Ms. Marta Santos Pais,Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Violence Against Children),held a stake holder meeting with a consortium of Nepali NGOs who work with and for children. The meeting was insightful in that provided an array of opinions and concerns from individuals and organizations working in different [...]

Bicycles Are Red Hot:An Off Topic Blurb + A Shameless PlugBicycles Are Red Hot:An Off Topic Blurb + A Shameless Plug

This past Saturday,I took part in a cycling rally that toured through the streets of Kathmandu. It was an enjoyable ride with a surprising turnout of a few hundred riders. Subsequently,the event was not solely organized to promote an appreciation or love of cycling,but was a platform to promote an environmental and [...]

ChaptersChapters

Below are a few tales of individuals who in one way or another participated in Street Kids International’s “Setting for Success Program” in Nepal. These stories and glimpses represent small,but what I hope will be,important chapters in their lives…

Amitra is a youth worker at Chartare Youth Club (CYC) in Baglung,Nepal.  She [...]

Kathmandu to Biratnagar and BackKathmandu to Biratnagar and Back

Recently,I had the good fortune to go on a monitoring visit to the Eastern part of Nepal where Street and Practice Business trainings had been delivered in April 2009. The purpose of the visit was twofold;first,to follow up with some of the youth workers who had participated in the training and to [...]

A Nepali Proposal:Will You Fund Me...A Nepali Proposal:Will You Fund Me…

Worldwide,almost every NGO has one thing in common – donors. These are the private and public foundations,other NGOs,individuals and governments which invariably provide the lifeblood for almost every organization – funding.

As a recent task,I decided to occupy myself with the search for the ever-illustrious source of funding for a project [...]

the waiting game...the waiting game…

Namaste:

I am currently sitting in the office of SathSath in broad daylight yet I feel like I am sitting in the dark.  It is four days until a new constitution is to be tabled by the Constitutional Assembly (CA);however,all signs seem to be pointing to the fact that this will not be [...]