Project Report
| Jun 6, 2016
Challenges to Rebuild in Nepal
By Shana Greene | Executive Director
Dear Donor,
Thank you very much for your past donations. We are going to have to deactivate this project on Global Giving. We will still be supporting the wonderful work of Mountain View Eco Farm and help them recover from the earthquake destruction of buildings on their property, however, the process has become very slow. They did not want to update the buildings with stone as they have always built. Govinda and his family were so traumatized that they decided to rebuild in brick which was more expensive and with the shortage of fuel in Nepal and the remote location, the project comes to a halt at times.
You can still donate to Mountain View Eco Farm through the Village Volunteers site to stay involved as well as volunteer there to help. We thank you for your generosity and we are grateful to Global Giving to give Mountain View Eco Farm a platform to rebuild their eco farm that is a training program for organic farming to youth and resource poor farmers.
If you want to continue to support important programs, please take a look at Educating and Sheltering Children in the Red Light district in Kolkata in India or Empowering Women Period, a sanitary pad manufacturing enterprise that works with women exciting from abuse and slavery in the red light district of Kolkata to be paid a salary and receive health insurance. The pads are given to girls in need.
Thank you again for you generosity in supporting grassroots projects around the world.
Shana Greene
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Mar 1, 2016
Delays but always moving foreard!
By Shana Greene and Govinda Bedraj Paudel | Exeuctive Directors
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Govinda working the land
Dear friends,
With delays, based on the slow recovery of Nepal, Govinda at Mountain View Eco Farm is coming along. They are rebuilding as funds are available using earthquake proof technologies. While they are building, they are giving trainings on earthquake-safe masonry. Throughout the rebuilding proecess thay are teaching community members to build their houses with local materials and ensuring their safety in the event of another earthquake. When they are not able to build, they are planting trees, and continuing their trainings while terracing land, composting and continuing to share their knowledge with their farming community.
For Govinda, Mountain View Eco Farm is a way to share the technologies of abundance based on natural systems. His passion and love of teaching sustainable farming methods is inspiring. Govinda's wife Chetani is college educated and has also chosen to honor sustainable and organic farming education as a noble profession. So many young people go to the cities to try to get jobs because farming is seen as a poor man's life.
Govinfa and Chetana are examples for others to return to the land to provide healthy food that works in harmony with the environment.
Thank you for your generosity in your support of Mountain View Eco Farm and the multiple benefits that are gained in Nepal through sustainable farming.
Shana Greene
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Dec 1, 2015
Resiliency and New Starts
By Shana Greene | Executive Director, Village Volunteers
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Govinda and Family
Dear friends,
Govinda and his family extend their warm greetings and a sincere thank you for your generosity in helping them after the Nepal earthquake. Losing farm buildings used in their training program and their livelihood was one thing, but losing their home was perhaps their biggest challenge. With a baby, the loss of their home became even more of an impetus to get back on their feet and start again.
On top of the obvious challenges Nepal, during this time, has dealt with huge shortages in supplies. They import 100% of their fuel and are now only getting10% of their fuel needs. This affects building costs and accessing supplies. While they can use some local materials, this time they wanted to have an earthquake-safe building structure to ensure their safety and the safety of their child. The fear and shock of going through an earthquake is something that stayed with them and for them the past cannot be repeated.
Their determination and resillency has helped them to move forward and to begin building, however slow the process. We promise photos as the buildings take shape again.
Donations are still appreciated since the costs have been more than anticapted.
Thank you,
Shana Greene
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