Nepal Earthquake Low-cost Sanitation Initiative

Dear Friend,

Warm greetings and thank you very much for your generous support to our project providing low-cost sanitation for earthquake survivors. This reporting period, we continue to engage a youth association who is our long-term partner in the country. Fund support has dwindled now not unlike the early days of the calamity and we are trying to seek strategies in order to continue our assistance. One of the means is to seek ways for the youth association to have their own livelihoods and we are helping them achieve this. We are providing them advise especially on agriculture-based livelihoods such as the processing of food and health products which we are successful in implementing already. One way also is for them to print and sell t-shirts and souvenirs especially that their area is tourist destination.

Again, thank you very much for your generous support.

Very sincerely yours,

Cora

Dear Friend,

Warm greetings and thank you very much for your kind donation to this project supporting those affected by the earthquake in Nepal. We got feedback from the field of the need to harvest rainwater especially in communities where water is scarce or difficult to carry in hills in water containers. This is disadvantageous and a heavy burden for women and children who are often tasked to do this difficult job. In order to provide solution to this, we provided our partner in Nepal with step-by-step guide how to make a rainwater harvester using concrete and iron. This is very cheap, durable, easy to do and can store water in large volumes. After this, we will instruct them how to install a unit in a community center as demonstration for the community. We are in contact also with international NGO's working in Nepal so that they can provide much-needed support. Some of them we met during the early days of Typhoon Haiyan and we keep closely communicating with them.

Again thank you very much for your generous support.

Very sincerely yours,

Cora