VillageTech Solutions funds a popular, all-weather "gondola" bridge in Nepal. This 80 meter bridge will move 40 to 80 adults (80 to 160 children) per hour, safely each way across the river.
60-65 students and 50-60 adults will use the Maruwa Gairi WireBridge daily. 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' where 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. Bridge #35 will start shortly -- was funded in December. Only two to four months are needed to complete each bridge.
In more than 1,000 Nepalese communities, schoolchildren and others want "to reach the other side" safely. Village children and adults have used the existing 34 WireBridges more than 3.2 million times without accident. Bridges build better lives.
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, Volunteer and Co-Founder
Total Funding Received to Date: $344
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $23,156
Total Funding Goal: $23,500
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