Disaster Response Nepal Project #20371

Help Rebuild Nepalese Family Farm & Training Site

by Village Volunteers

Project Report | Mar 1, 2016
Delays but always moving foreard!

By Shana Greene and Govinda Bedraj Paudel | Exeuctive Directors

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

growing tumeric

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