Nepal

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Nepal

Project Title: Nepal Bio-gas Digesters

Goal: Improve health of rural villgers, create economic development opportunities for motivated villagers and decrease deforestation. 

Objectives:

  1. Provide funding and training of how to build home bio-gas digesters for the extremely poor rural villagers of Nepal in order to decrease use of open fires in their huts and improve sanitation for the villages. 
  2. Provide coaching and training of motivated villagers to be able to market and sell the bio-gas digesters to the wealthy poor and the middle class. 

In Country Partners: Choice Humanitarian, Nepal, Rural village leaders and the Rotary Club of Katmandu. 

Project Updates:

2007-2008: Initial matching grant for a total of $19,000 was arranged for from Utah Rotary Clubs, Utah Rotary District 5420, Katmandu Rotary Club and Rotary International which provided funding for initial 40 bio-gas digesters.  When the initial grant money was all spent, 147 digesters were actually constructed which was a lot more than the initial estimate of 40.  In 2009, The Hope Alliance, Choice Humanitarian, the Katmandu Rotary Club and the Park City Sunrise Rotary Club will pursue a much larger grant with Rotary that will impact thousands of families, improving the environment and extending the lives of the villagers by improving the health of their lungs and providing better sanitation outcomes. 

 

2007 Summary:

Nepal is a country well known for its diverse geography, ranging from the hot and humid plains of the Terai in the south, to the Middle hills area that includes the Katmandu Valley, to the Himalayan mountain region in the north that has eight of the world's fourteen highest mountains, including Mount Everest. In this beautiful country with a rich cultural and political history, The Hope Alliance and CHOICE Humanitarian have begun a cooperative project to link medical and health experts from the U.S. with rural health care providers in Nepal.

Healthcare:  Our Hope Alliance volunteers, Dr. Fred Gottlieb and Cynthia Godsey N.P, traveled to Nepal in March 2007 to complete arrangements for The Hope Alliance health professionals' in-service education projects which will be implemented in  2008.   The current projects are based in the Terai, the most populated part of the country on the Ganges plains and in a district flanking the Annapurna mountain region.  Future projects are being planned for the more remote and isolated western part of Nepal.  In collaboration with CHOICE's In-Country Director, Nirmal Neupane and Rural Development Facilitator, Kiran Neupane, Dr. Gottlieb and Cynthia Godsey, The Hope Alliance volunteers in charge of developing this project, visited Nepal in 2006 and completed the preliminary assessment. The initial planning was successful but implementation coincided with a government upheaval that resulted in the autocratic King being forced to give up power and a democratic government being established.

Education:  In The Hope Alliance-CHOICE cooperative project, The Hope Alliance will expand this model to partner with the Nepalese health care system to offer health professional in-service educational options to Nepalese rural health care providers. These projects are initially set-up to expand health capacity in rural district hospitals but are linked to improving care in the surrounding remote villages.

Sustainable Development:  These in-service educational projects will be based on principles of "no-direct care" in that all American professionals will transfer knowledge and skills by working with existing health care providers. This approach also is in compliance with the new Government of Nepal's appropriate and progressive policies that require all foreign medical providers to be licensed to practice within Nepal.  The Government has been and continues to be very supportive in approving this project as part of an effort to establish self-sufficiency and local control at the village level.

2006 Summary:

Nepal is a country well known for its diverse geography, ranging from the hot and humid plains of the Terai in the south, to the Middle hills area that includes the Katmandu Valley, to the Himalayan mountain region in the north that has eight of the world's fourteen highest mountains, including Mount Everest. In this beautiful country with a rich cultural and political history, The Hope Alliance and CHOICE Humanitarian have begun a cooperative project to link medical and health experts from the U.S. with rural health care providers in Nepal.

Healthcare:  Our Hope Alliance volunteers, Dr. Fred Gottlieb and Cynthia Godsey N.P, will return to Nepal in March 2007 to complete arrangements for The Hope Alliance health professionals' in-service education projects which will be implemented in late 2007.   The current projects are based in the Terai, the most populated part of the country on the Ganges plains and in a district flanking the Annapurna mountain region.  Future projects are being planned for the more remote and isolated western part of Nepal. 
In collaboration with CHOICE's In-Country Director, Nirmal Neupane and Rural Development Facilitator, Kiran Neupane, Dr. Gottlieb and Cynthia Godsey, Hope Alliance volunteers in charge of developing this project, visited Nepal in 2006 and completed the preliminary assessment. The initial planning was successful but implementation coincided with a government upheaval that resulted in the autocratic King being forced to give up power and a democratic government being established.
Education:  In The Hope Alliance-CHOICE cooperative project, The Hope Alliance will expand this model to partner with the Nepalese health care system to offer health professional in-service educational options to Nepalese rural health care providers. These projects are initially set-up to expand health capacity in rural district hospitals but are linked to improving care in the surrounding remote villages.
Sustainable Development:  These in-service educational projects will be based on principles of "no-direct care" in that all American professionals will transfer knowledge and skills by working with existing health care providers. This approach also is in compliance with the new Government of Nepal's appropriate and progressive policies that require all foreign medical providers to be licensed to practice within Nepal.  The Government has been and continues to be very supportive in approving this project as part of an effort to establish self-sufficiency and local control at the village level.