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RELIEF DISTRIBUTION IN DHADING

Total household covered during food and non-food distribution was 933 household of around 3000 population benefitted by the distribution scattered at 9 camps and living in temporary shelters from the past 6 months after earthquake hit on 25th April, 2015.

According to the report gathered from survey in the camps, lives of people was miserable and especially newly delivered women, children, old aged people. For the distribution ACN got request letter from affected people and recommended by respective village development committee and District Administration Office.

ACN supported displaced people of earthquake and landslide by providing them food and non-food supplies to save lives from starving by distributing relief materials from 19th to 20th October, 2015 for displaced people at 9 different camps having temporary shelter in Dhading Besi camps living there from past 6 months. PCC/ACN provided rice, lentil, cooking oil, salt, sugar, bitten rice, spices, tea on food items and blankets on non-food items and bath soap, washing soap, toothpaste, comb, nail-cutter, toothbrush, pyush (water guard) and sanitary pad on hygiene and sanitation kits for basic survival.

2 heavy trucks were loaded with the materials and extra medium size 14 trucks were hired for distribution at 9 different camps.

During the distribution a team of 25 members (PCC- 3, World Concern- 3, ACN Staff- 8, Media-2 and Volunteers- 9) were involved in the delivery and distribution of the relief materials for 933 households who were living in 9 different camps (Dhansar Pakha, Daam Gade, Tato Pani, Pokhari Rato Mate, Kusunde Chaur, Tallo Aahale Dhola, Chanpe Danda, Bhuwalpala Dhola and Alche Danda). Next day on 29th October, 2015, distribution team was divided into 3 to 5 members each with one leader to lead the distribution. Relief materials were distributed to each household directly.

The list of materials each household got is listed below:

S.N Materials Unit per HH
Rice 25 kg
Lintel 2 kg
Oil 2 Ltr
Salt 1 kg
Sugar 2 kg
Bitten Rice 2 kg
Spices 1 packet
Tea leaves 1 packet

The following is a collection of glimpses from the programme

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TRAINING FOR REHABILITATION

 

 

Teachers’ Training on Teaching English and Basic Disaster Risk Reduction Training

7th October, the RC Complex, a popular venue in Pokhara for seminars and trainings, was reverberant with enthusiastic murmurs of a herd of people. But the indistinguishable chatters were not native to the Pokhara’s dialect. In midst of village-style Nepali, one could hear some English sentences  followed by friendly chuckles. The day was the finale of three days long training programmes, entitled “Teachers’ Training on Teaching English” and “Basic Disaster Risk Reduction training”.

The trainings were friendly, the trainings were funny, but most of all, it was an emotional moment for everyone. The Participants from 11 schools had 14 english teachers (for teachers’ training) and 21 participants including 10 women (for Risk Reduction Trianing) were all from Shrinathkot, which at this point, we all know was a badly affected region by the Earthquake we saw, a few months ago. May be this was a milestone for everyone who participated; as a point of time where they realized: now, we have crossed the “being a victim” phase and started the “we are rebuilding” phase.

The trainers for “Basic Disaster Risk Reduction Training” were invited from the Red Cross Society Kaski. Mr. Khimraj Sapkota and Hari Bandhu Aryal both were not new to the people of Shrinathkot, as they both had been there during their emergency rescue efforts at the time of earthquake. The training covered important topics like Risk, Vulnerability, Coping capacity, Mitigation, Resilience, Early warning system and rehabilitation.

The trainers for the Teachers’ Training on Teaching English Dr. Arthur and Mrs.Hillary Jones, both with a huge background in teaching English, explained how this was going to help the teachers of Gorkha, build a sustainable and progressive community. Shrinathkot is topographically challenged and economically backward region. Eventually, the products of schools in Gorkha will have to compete with the products from major cities in Nepal for jobs and also, further studies. English is a prerequisite for career in the modern world. Hopefully, teachers from this training can produce students with good, academic English, which will help the community have hopes for a better future. And also, if these teachers can go back and train other fellow teachers from surrounding villages, this can benefit exponentially.

In the certificate distribution ceremony, the participants shared how encouraged they were by the enthusiasm of people from outside their village to help and rebuild them, and that they were confident, they could learn more from trainings like this in the future and certainly try their best in rebuilding their community, only this time, stronger and more resilient than before.
May be they can; may be they will.

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IMG_9209Someone said, “I consider ourselves lucky to have the Earthquake”
In the certificate distribution ceremony, Rajendra Dhakal was very excited to share his feelings about the training. For one thing, he started by sharing how had been enrolled in the training.
He was on a visit in a neighboring village while he met a friend and talked about the rehabilitation going on in Shrinathkot, the friend asked which organization was working with them for this process and he told Asal Chhimekee Nepal. The friend was very happy know and told him that Asal Chhimekee was a good organization and that he was very certain that positive changes would surely be brought about.
So, Rajendra decided to recommend his own name  for the training and thus he was here.

Rajendra said,” I have learnt a lot from this training. I learnt with excitement about various topics in English, but if there is anything I have learnt the most, it is that I know nothing about English. And I am certain there will be more for us in the future. Not only in school related aspects, but I feel, we have been touched by Asal Chhimekee Nepal in everything. Now, everything is being rebuilt. Everything we are trying to build now, if completed, will be better than what we ever had. Sometimes, I think to myself, it was a good thing for us that the Earthquake came and destroyed everything, because that made room for us to start building from scratch. We are very lucky have the partnership and expertise of Asal Chhimekee Nepal.”

The crowd seemed to welcome his thoughts and it seemed as if he had spoken the words from their own hearts. But ACN itself felt it had a lot to do; with so much appreciation from the community and the knowledge that it had a lot more to do, partnering, learning and teaching with this community. Everybody was happy but everybody knew there was a lot more to do. But that’s what milestones are for… congratulate you on how successful you have been in reaching the goal while also reminding how much further you still need to go, energizing with the success you have achieved.

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