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Economic Development > Build Bridges for Health, Education & Hope - Nepal (#565)
Summary
VillageTech Solutions funds a popular, all-weather "gondola" bridge in Nepal. The bridge moves 40 to 80 adults, or 80 to 160 children per hour, safely each way across rivers up to 160 meters wide.
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Thanks to donors like you, a total of $4,000 was raised for this project. Other Projects Run By VillageTech Solutions (VTS) That You Can Help
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12 million Nepalese live in the Himalayan foothills where rivers are hazardous obstacles. Limited access denies many children an education, discourages proper health care, and increases the cost of goods. To cross more than 10 meters, there have been only two alternatives: an extremely dangerous cable 'tween' wherein a makeshift trapeze or wooden box hangs from a pulley that often crushes the user's fingers, or an expensive suspended walking bridge.
Since 1998 34 gondola-like WireBridges have been built over dangerous rivers in Nepal at a quarter the cost of suspended bridges. Only two to four months are needed to complete each bridge.
Total Funding Received to Date: $4,000
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $4,000 . The original project funding goal was $4,000.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
In more than 1,000 Nepalese communities, schoolchildren and others want "to reach the other side" safely. Village children and adults have used the 34 WireBridges more than 3.2 million times with no accidents. Requests for bridges are overwhelming.
WireBridges are not just structures. They also are symbols of cooperation. Every client community has put a 'bridge' above politics and despite the regional conflict, no bridge has ever been harmed.
- David Sowerwine, Co-founder
David Sowerwine
Managing Director
999 Olive Street
Menlo Park, California 94025
United States
650-380-5008
Email:
VillageTech Solutions (VTS)
999 Olive Street
Menlo Park,
CA
94025
United States
650-853-1713
http://www.villagetechsolutions.org
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This project is located in Nepal
and can also be found under Economic Development.
For more information about Nepal, read the Human Development Report on Nepal or the Wikipedia entry for Nepal.
This project was last updated on December 14, 2009.
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on June 1, 2004
By David Sowerwine - Bridge Builder, December 11, 2009 11:07 AM
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