empowering for life
The village of Sunderbasti now has a large water storage tank. Before this August, villagers piped water from four kilometres away, but the pipes leaked leading to contamination, especially during the monsoon. With safe water now in every villagers home, NLT is celebrating with Sunderbasti.
Another very exciting day on our field trip to Lalgadh in South Eastern Nepal, September 2019. Our group travel to visit and meet with the villagers of Odraha, one of the 5 villages in the current Village Alive Programme (VAP)
Here in Odraha village the men are happy to mind their children, the women have work to do! Thanks to VAP a sewing training course is underway along with a new community hall. Among many other improvements is a rise in the number of children going to school.
NLT supports the Village Alive Programme which empowers some of the poorest, most disadvantaged people suffering from leprosy and other debilitating conditions, to transform their own lives and also spearhead improvements to the whole village. In this way, the most rejected people become community leaders.
Day 1 of NLT Irelands visit to Nepal, September 2019.
We had a wonderful day on Sunday 7th September as we celebrated Nepal Ireland Day 2019 in Farmleigh House, Dublin.
We danced and sang in the Nepalese and Irish traditional style. Both nationalities are warm, open and celebrate in similar ways. Food also plays a celebratory role in these occasions although there are differences in the type of food. However Irish cuisine is generally rapidly changing and becoming much more international, with the inclusion of lots of variety in spices and rices.
During the afternoon at Farmleigh House we were able to talk to the public about our mission. We also had the opportunity to sell our beautiful handicrafts, which are made by the artisans we know and work with in Nepal.
Many thanks to the many wonderful organisers, with special thanks to all at Nepal Ireland Society, Nepal Tourism and Embassy of Nepal London
A BIG thank you for all your support with our July 2019 appeal for Emergency Flood Relief Aid. We are hugely grateful.
Call for Emergency Flood Relief Aid, please support.
The heavy rain and flooding in Nepal over the last few weeks, due to the Monsoon, has not really reached our ears as we bask in summer temperatures of around 23 degrees here in Ireland.
We have received news from our Nepal colleagues that 78 houses in the Terai district have been totally damaged due to constant rain and flooding. 74 houses have been partially damaged. The following images are of families we support in Manara Village, whose homes have been destroyed.
Manara is one of villages which is part of our Village Alive Programme supported by Irish Aid.
Our work is focused in the Terai district of Nepal and so this is unsettling for us. Some of our village Self Help Group (SHG) members’ homes have been destroyed and damaged. Our SHG members support, encourage and assist other villagers who are struggling. They are a lifeline in the community.
If you would like to contribute towards rebuilding these homes, please make a donation here and state Flood Relief Aid.
All Nepal Leprosy Trust staff, their families and all patients are fine.
If you would like more detail, please contact Vera at info@nlt.ie.
Nepal-Ireland Day, Farmleigh, 8th September 2019
Save the date: the forthcoming Nepal-Ireland Day is on 8th September 2019 in Farmleigh, Phoenix Park, Dublin. Time from 11am – 5pm.
This is a family day free of charge, a day of cultural events from both Nepalese and Irish artists.
