Chairman’s Welcome / Keeping in Touch Fundraising / Global Giving

Delivering Renewable Energy Working in Partnership

Trek to Build Acknowledgements / Rotary round up

Health and Education Promoting the NT

Tony Robinson Photo Album

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Dear Friends and Supporters In the last issue of Namaste we set out our future road map and plans for ‘upping our game’ in the delivery of healthcare and supporting the installed base of renewable energy facilities. Already we are making progress but it will be a long road as it involves cultural change as much as anything. For example our

plans to build and staff birthing centres at each of our clinics in an attempt to make in-roads into the appalling infant and in-labour mortality rates of Humla, will require abandoning the tradition of expectant mothers going out into the cow sheds or even open fields to give birth to their new baby. To keep the installed base of energy facilities working across the long winter months year in year out will require a co-ordinated programme of pro-active maintenance and investment in spares: an approach we take for granted in the West but which is a major shift in attitude and organisation for the local communities in Humla.

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Between us we have over the last 2 decades already made a substantial difference to the lives of many individuals living in one of the poorest and most inaccessible parts of the world. It is now less than one day’s walk on average for a member of a remote community to gain access to primary healthcare at a Nepal Trust clinic that is staffed with a trained medical worker and which has regular supplies of medicine. To me this is our flagship achievement. We remain an all-volunteer organisation in the UK, which means every Pound raised is very nearly a Pound spent in Nepal. As an INGO operating full control over the transfer and expenditure of money we give complete transparency of accounting back to our donors. Our reputation for working hands on in partnership with the local communities, seeing projects through and for ethical incorruptible behaviour is a beacon in the rather murky field of third world charity and aid programmes. This along with our established infrastructure is making us the partner of choice for other aid organisations wanting to work in the Humla area. Please keep in touch and enjoy this edition of Namaste, but above all thank-you for your support.

Mike

Chairman’s Welcome by Dr. Mike Love

Letter from Nugal Vaidya, Chairman of The Nepal Trust’s NGO partner in Nepal Dear Readers, Most of you who have been the friends of the Nepal Trust have been involved in partnerships for the service projects one way or other to help the communities in need and to foster and promote goodwill and understanding, both locally and internationally. During these endeavours we also complement each other individually or institutionally for the same or collective objectives as well. Our projects that we have successfully implemented to date have shown this in many ways. Rotary

has been in the forefront in this regard, since some of us engaged in Rotary have found the opportunity to serve both organisations complementing to each other. Recently in Nepal, Rotary International has successfully organised a ’Rotary South Asia Conference on Literacy’ with the declaration of ‘Total Literacy in the South Asia region by 2017’ in which emphasis lies on development of local school systems, education of children and adult literacy as well. It also encourages partnerships within the social and private sectors with the local governments to achieve these goals. On behalf of the Nepal Trust NGO Board of Directors, I am happy to say that the Nepal Trust has been involved in such initiatives for a long time. Besides this, not only recent projects, such as the Muchu school improvement plan, the Little Doctors child health education programmes, sports programme and school library project in Yalbang are great examples of this, but also the expansion of partnerships both internationally as well locally with governments, NGOs and at community level show that the Nepal Trust and Rotary share similar thoughts. So, I urge friends and supporters of the Nepal Trust to take a note of this and direct your valuable efforts in this direction also. Regards Nugal

Keeping in Touch Namaste and our e-news updates are two of the channels through which we try to reach out and keep our members and friends informed of the work we are doing and of the opportunities to join with us. Our web site www.nepaltrust.org gives you another portal into our activities. Through it you are able to look into our organisation in further detail. If you have a Facebook page have a look at our page www.facebook.com/NEPALTRUST and click ‘like’ if you are happy with it. Information is posted on a more regular basis and, if you agree, you can share with your friends and spread the word to a wider audience.

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Chyaduk 4.5 kW Micro Hydro Project Chyaduk village, located 6 hours walk from Simikot, lies on the Simikot - Hilsa trail. The village, which has about 40 households depends on income from agriculture, wood carving, trade and labouring in Tibet. The micro hydro facility was constructed and commissioned during the summer months of 2011. After the house wiring and final installation works were completed, the village was electrified successfully in February 2012 and the official handover to the community followed shortly after.

The plant provides electricity for over 200 villagers, who now have domestic lighting and, with the ability to recharge batteries, access to modern communications.

Our thanks and appreciation goes to the Rotary clubs of North Wales (Mawddach, Dolgellau, Welshpool, Newtown and Porthmadog) and to the Rotary club of Mt. Everest and USAID for their support for implement of the project.

2011 was a very successful year for our renewable energy activities with our work recognised in March by USAID, which selected the Nepal Trust as a success story to present as an example for implementation of energy schemes in Nepal (http://www.sari-energy.org/pagefiles/links/energy_links.asp).

Electrifying Remote Communities

Chyaduk Project

Gothi Khola 50 kW Micro Hydro Project The Gothi Khola project was delayed for over 12 years due to the political conflict, which in turn led to a lack of funds following inflation since the project was originally incepted. In 2011, after the successful commissioning of the plant, the Nepal Trust facilitated the local communities obtaining funding to complete the house wiring. Now after more than a decade, the Nepal Trust can proudly state that it has completed the biggest micro hydro project in south Humla. The project provides electricity to the Gothi, Saya and Barai VDC’s, which comprise over 450 households (5,000 people), 3 schools, a local health post, post office and the village hub of Sarkegad, which is developing into the commercial hub of south Humla.

Dojam 6.5 kW Micro Hydro Project It is not an understatement to suggest that Dojam is perhaps one of the remotest communities in the world. It is also where we are planning our next micro hydro project. In conjunction with the local community the initial, but detailed feasibility study has been completed. We would like to commence work in 2013 and are actively engaged with the community in looking for support to help finance the project.

The project has been estimated as needing a budget of around $85,000. With some initial committed funding in place we would hope to be able to leverage matching and other grants to build the full sum needed. If your organisation is interested in making a contribution in part to help us provide the people of Dojam with electricity, please don’t hesitate to make contact!

Dojam Village

Gothi Project

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The background to this project has been explained in earlier editions of Namaste.

Put very simply, “there is little point in doing new build projects if we can’t keep the old build projects running”. The challenges to keeping the schemes running are many, varied and complex. The heart of the problem is one of culture and logistics.

Obtaining spare parts from India is difficult and fraught with misunderstandings. Having engineers travel up to Humla and walk to the sites to replace parts and service the plant is costly. Not being able to carry out simple machining operations locally causes frustrations and long delays.

The culture of proactive service cycles, holding spares and replacing components before they fail, requires discipline and organisation not current in Humla.

Building this capacity and capability amongst the local communities is core to keeping the schemes running. To address this problem the Nepal Trust is working with TRAID (http://www.traid.org.uk/nepaltrust.html) to establish a renewable energy service centre in Simikot – a centre that will employ local people to maintain the solar, wind and micro-hydro installations. The service centre will act as workshop, repair centre, local shop, vocational training centre and volunteer hub for people interested in contributing to the improvement of local infrastructure.

This year will see the first phase of construction completed. The land has been purchased, building plans agreed and the initial marshalling of materials is underway.

Later in the year volunteers will spend time working with the

Nepal Trust staff in Humla to prepare detailed business and operational plans for the centre.

Strategic partnerships have been agreed with SolarSense (http://www.solarsense-uk.com/solarsense-charity-work.asp) an award winning UK renewable energy company most famous for installing the renewable energy facilities at the Glastonbury festival site and Loughborough University to add expertise and capability to the operation of the centre. Both organisations will help with the construction, vocational training and operational running of the centre.

Service Centre construction starts

Service Centre Stone Collection

The plans for a volunteer team trekking into Humla from Jumla via Rara Lake in Mugu district to help construct the new sub-health post at the village of Bargaun in September 2012 are well advanced. There is nevertheless still scope for other volunteers to join the team. Please visit our web site www.nepaltrust.org to find out more about the plans for the trip and the route the trek team will be taking. We are still seeking financial support to make the project a reality. Can you help in any way? Make a personal donation or introduce us to an organisation that might be willing to sponsor one part of the project. Please visit our web site to find out more about this initiative and how you could help.

Bargaun Health Post Community Meeting

Trek to Build Bargaun sub-Health Post

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The Nepal Trust has been operating in the ‘Hidden Himalayas’ for almost 20 years. It has operated a Primary Healthcare Programme continuously during this period, despite the disruptions caused by the Maoist conflict. With the conflict now settled, the Nepal Trust is planning to revamp its Primary Healthcare Programme by constructing 2 new remote sub-health posts that will form an additional component of its existing health infrastructure. By incorporating birthing centres at these new posts, we are aiming to up our game in terms of the delivery of mother and child health care. Local Auxiliary Nurse Midwives will be recruited from within the communities, trained and employed to work at the new health posts.

This initiative is part of the Nepal Trust’s long term drive to tackle the high infant mortality rates (over 40% of all children do not live for 5 years) and high maternal labour mortality rates prevalent in the project area.

As with all of our projects, the local communities will be working in partnership with us, both to construct the new facilities and to sustain and maintain them. For our part we facilitate the funding and construction of the health posts and will provide the necessary staff, medical supplies, volunteers and administration to keep the sub-health posts running. Local Auxiliary Nurse Midwifes will be recruited from within the local community, trained and employed to work at the sub-health posts.

To sustain the project for the longer term, as many as possible of the responsibilities and tasks will be gradually

Upping our Game handed over to the local communities and the Nepal Government in joint collaborations (PPP). The communities have set up Community Health Committees to organise their contributions and have entered into formal agreements with the Nepal Trust committing to their responsibilities.

The first sub-health posts will be constructed in the village of Bargaun (Bargoan VDC) and will operate as a sub-health post/birthing centre to the Torpa clinic, which is approximately 30 minutes walking distance away; the second sub-health post is potentially planned more towards the Tibetan border in Muchu VDC. The locations have been chosen to both complement and afford good accessibility to our existing health infrastructure,. The two VDCs comprise a total population of approx. 1,200 households comprising 6,250 people.

Tony Robinson Sadly the Nepal Trust lost a great friend and supporter with the death of Tony in April of this year. Tony was a former Finance Director of the Nepal Trust.

For many years Tony was an enthusiastic supporter of the Nepal Trust. He first visited Nepal in 2006, when he participated with a team of Rotary volunteers in a trek to the upper Karnali and Limi valleys, to assist with the construction of a new micro-hydro energy facility at Halji. The group braved steep mountain passes and high altitudes on the gruelling journey to Halji, an eight-day trek of 125km which took them to an altitude of 16,500 feet. Laden down with packs and sleeping under canvas, Tony's team spent six days working on the installation before trekking for a further seven days on the return journey.

Not only was Tony extremely generous with his time, energy and passion, he also successfully raised substantial sums of money in support of the Nepal Trust's health care and renewable energy programmes over his many years with us.

Tony's enthusiasm and commitment was first class and he was a pleasure to work with. His early death is a real loss to the Trust and his wisdom and generous contribution is greatly missed.

A JustGiving website has been opened in memory of Tony: http://www.justgiving.com/Tonyleakerobinson

Tony Robinson (r) on top of Kilimanjaro raising funds for the Nepal Trust

Community Health Worker Sitar and Wife

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Another round of Little Doctors This year will see new groups of children attending our Little Doctors programme in Simikot, Yalbang and Bargaun.

The programmes, which cost £1,500 each, create health awareness throughout local communities by expanding the knowledge of school children in the topics of personal hygiene, family planning, diseases, sanitation, first aid and nutrition.

Classes are organised and run through the local schools. Delivery is through trained healthcare workers from the Nepal Trust working alongside local school teachers and the local government health workers.

Our Little Doctor’s programme was highly commended by GlobalGiving, ranking the initiative fourth for innovation (against hundreds of other contenders!)

Two of this year’s programmes have already been sponsored by generous donations from the Rotary Clubs of Farnham Weyside and Lincoln Colonial. We are urgently seeking sponsors for the remainder of the programme. Please visit our web site for further detail www.nepaltrust.org.

There are 10 million NGOs in the world! So how do you decide which one to give your money to?

Lack of accountability is often quoted as one the main reasons why donors are wary of giving, and often with good cause. The Nepal Trust is an all-volunteer organisation in the UK and nearly every pound raised is a pound spent in Nepal. We are not a big organisation by world standards, but our staff and volunteers are all committed people and dedicated to what they do to support one of the poorest regions in the world. Our accounting and auditing procedures are world class and fully open to any scrutiny.

Each year we need to raise close on £100,000 to cover our primary health care programme. This includes the costs of staffing 6 clinics with community health workers and the procurement and distribution of medicines to the health posts. Supplying the health post in the Limi valley is a good example of the challenges we face in even this simple task: once we’ve got the medicines to Simikot, it is a round trip by foot taking 14 days to move them up the valley to the clinic.

Projects such as the construction of the birthing centres and new micro hydro schemes are run from our projects budget and are only started once the source of funding for the work has been identified and confirmed. All our projects are community driven and would not exist without the full support and participation of the local people. They contribute in many ways (including financially) and through providing labour as well, these communities feel ownership of the projects. This is so important for their long term future.

Tony Sharpe, our deputy chairman, is the driving force behind our fund raising efforts. Tony is himself a volunteer with over 30 years of experience living and working in Nepal. Fundraising is a multi-facetted task and without the continuous efforts of our other friends and supporters he could not succeed. Every little bit counts. Various initiatives

have been set up over the last 12 months. We are now full members of Globalgiving both in the UK and the USA. This has given us a very professional platform with access to skilled support and expertise and a worldwide donor community.

There is plenty to do and everybody’s continued support will be vital. You are receiving this newsletter because you already support our work and you may feel that you already give enough. Why not speak to a friend or relative who you know is sympathetic to our, or similar, causes and encourage them to donate or sign up? If we all managed to recruit one new donor what a difference it would make! Of course, we will be forever grateful for whatever support you can give. Perhaps you might like to become a full member of the Trust and be more involved in our activities? Are you able to volunteer or help us to find volunteers to share our work load at home and abroad? The more you engage with the work of the Nepal Trust, the more you realise it is all about “people making a difference”.

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Tony Meeting KTM Rotarians

Little Doctors Class

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Sustainable Development: Integrated Approach and Partnerships

Sustainable development comprises more than just the construction of a building or the purchase of medicines; it is a long process in which commitment, perseverance, business principles and the involvement of local participants are essential to success.

Over the years the Nepal Trust has successfully promoted a holistic approach in its work and we have proven that we are able to facilitate local communities in an innovative and cost-effective way, implementing many projects that can complement each other in many ways.

Energy and infrastructure can bring business; business can bring education; education can bring income and social cohesion; income can bring health, and so on.

Liaising with local stakeholders, communities and governments and having them participate in the development and execution of projects is essential not only to understand the underlying problems and hardships that need to be overcome, but also to receive the cooperation and approval by the government of Nepal for the activities undertaken to make these processes successful. To this end, we have conducted several meetings since the autumn of 2011 with the Social Welfare Council and respective ministries and line agencies related to our work, and have also included local communities through their committees (e.g. health, school, energy committees).

We regard the local people as full project stakeholders rather than ‘project beneficiaries’ and provide them with an opportunity to have a pro-active role in the implementation and construction of their community project. In doing so, their contributions, both financial and physical, are crucial to not only avoid a culture of dependency, but also to bring a certain sense of pride among the communities that will make them willing to sustain ‘their assets’.

Although we have achieved many successes to date in this regard, support from others is always welcome and often

needed. The Karnali region is very poor and remote, but at the same time an expensive and time-draining area to operate in. We believe that by collaborating with other organisations, aid can be delivered in a much more efficient manner:

By combining knowledge, budgets, human resources and time, not only more significant and long-lasting goals can be achieved on the ground, but also clear messages will be sent throughout the communities, showing that donors are uniting on one front to assist them, which in the end results in the more efficient use of funds and mobilisation of local resources and people.

Our partnerships with TRAID, PAF, USAID, DFID, Sean Burch, SolarSense, ISIS Foundation, Novels for Nepal, Kailash Humla Children Home, and also at a local level with the DDC, VDCs, various committees (e.g. Bargaun Health Committee, Yalbang School Committee) and NGOs are examples of this. We hope to continue to expand our partners and donors in the years to come.

Currently the Trust is exploring ways of collaboration with various organisations working in the fields of health, education, agriculture/food security, environment, tourism, water and sanitation and energy, including the University College of London, the Management Center Innsbruck, Norlha, Mission East, UNICEF, the University of California, CITTA, and several others.

If you think you, your organisation, club or group should or would want to be added to this list, please don’t hesitate to contact us – in the end we all are working for the same goals and people in need. You can read about some ongoing partnerships later in this issue.

Ministry of Health Officials Visit Torpa Health Post

Social Welfare Council Meeting for INGO

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For many years the Trust has been advocating sustainable tourism practices and capacity-building of local tourism bodies, as well as micro, small and medium entrepreneurs, for which capacity-building and skill-building was key.

Besides training people and develop their skills in tourism practices, such as tea house management, cook/guide training, food preparation/hygiene, waste management and the like, we have also started facilitating Humla’s Tourism Development Committee (TDC) in the development of tourism infrastructure throughout the district.

Examples are the promotion and education of women entrepreneurs in tourism, environmental education combined with waste pit construction and waste collection schemes, local bridge construction in south Humla, restoration works at Muchu Gompa, and the start of constructing an irrigation scheme that will run from the main public water supply in Simikot, to the airport. This will result in cleaner streets in the district’s HQ.

Other activities involve the establishment of the Humla Home-Stay Initiative in which local households are being trained and developed into home-based accommodation

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providers, to offer tourists a unique experience in which they can see and feel how it is to live in a Himalayan village. This will also stimulate income generation in local villages.

GHT Trainings for MSME's at Sarkegad

Water: Life’s most valuable resource Since 2008, the Nepal Trust has been planning the implementation of a major water supply project in Kaski district, Pokhara area. This project is supported by the Stichting Waterproject Nepal in Holland, under the chairmanship of Dick Verstegen, and is in conjunction with the Nepal government. The area comprises 3 village clusters of Dhikur-Pokhari, Kaskikot and Sarangkot and is one of Nepal’s most visited tourism areas attracting over 60,000

people yearly.

This water supply project aims to provide fresh water to 10-13,000 people that currently have to walk many hours to a potable water source because they only have a contaminated water source close to home. Children have to help parents fetch water which prevents them from going to school; also health related problems in the area related to sanitation and water are growing rapidly.

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in-depth discussion with local stakeholders and government is crucial; over the last 4 years several planning sessions have been held in Holland and Nepal. This year has seen some significant progress and the initial start up funds are now in place. We aim to start the construction of the transmission, which will take two years to complete, in the course of 2012, after which we will continue to provide assistance to distribute the water throughout the villages.

The lessons learnt from this project will give us a valuable foundation for addressing sanitation and water supply problems in Humla.

Women from Kaskikot travel many miles to find clean potable water

Water bourn diseases are spreading

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Working in Partnership Often it is claimed that the Nepal Trust punches far above its weight. One of the ways we achieve this is by teaming up with other organisations to deliver help and hope to the communities of the Hidden Himalayas. As an INGO with a long established presence in the remote North West of Nepal and a reputation for full and transparent accounting, we are often the partner of choice for others wishing to make a contribution. Our criteria for engaging in partnership are that our partners can demonstrate the same commitments to sustainability and share the same ethical values as the Nepal Trust.

Kailash Humla Children Home The KHCH is a small charity committed to helping raise education standards in Humla. Led by Lama Pema Topchen and supported by John Armstrong and Tom Sooke in the UK, with supporting sister organisations in both Sweden and Australia, it has joined with the Nepal Trust to deliver two projects into the village of Muchu (high up the Karnali Valley).

One project is to establish and run a children’s home at Muchu, which will provide supervised accommodation, meals and education materials for young children from outlying, remote villages such that they can attend classes at the local school. It also plans to supplement teaching at the school with traditional Tibetan language, Nepali and English classes. The second is to restore the temple at Muchu. This Gompa which houses ancient scripts is in desperate need of renovation. It lies on the main pilgrimage route from India to Mt. Kailash and once restored can form a key component to the Great Himalaya Trail sustainable tourism programme, embraced by the Nepal Trust.

The Nepal Trust is providing project management services to facilitate these projects and will take a lead role in guaranteeing their integrity and long term sustainability.

ISIS Foundation The ISIS Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation working in Nepal and Uganda (http://www.isis.bm/). In Humla ISIS

has teamed with the Nepal Trust to help raise the standards and depth of health care delivered through our clinics at Yalbang and Kermi. We saw the first benefits of this collaboration in Nov. and Dec. 2011 with the organisation funded by ISIS of health camps at Kermi and the Mahaboudha Secondary School in Yalbang. In total 727 patients attended the clinics to receive treatment. The intention is to set up a more formal and long term collaboration agreement that will see ISIS assisting the NT long term with the running costs of the two clinics.

Novels for Nepal

Novels for Nepal, consisting of student groups from Australia, Malaysia and the USA, has succeeded in its target to raise AUS$ 15,000 to build and stock the first effective school library in Humla in the village of Yalbang. Developed by the Nepal Trust with help of the local school committee, the project has recently started and will be fully implemented under the management of the Nepal Trust in 2012. The Novels for Nepal team visited Nepal and travelled to Humla in late 2011 and is now looking for additional ways in which it can support the school and children: current ideas include art materials and supplies for science lessons. For more information please visit: http://www. novelsfornepal.org/

Muchu Gompa

Yalbang School Library Illustration

Novels for Nepal team visit Nepal (L-R Jeroen van den Bergh, Rebecca Sarah Nayagam, Sumithra Durai)

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Appreciation and Thanks to all our kind supporters We are extremely grateful to everyone who has donated or supported us in another special way during 2011. All support, no matter how small, goes a long way. Virtually every penny donated goes to project implementation in the Hidden Himalayas – one the world’s poorest regions. Special thanks to the following who have donated £100 or more or who have provided us with valuable assistance and support to carry out our activities.

Individuals: H Probart; Ellen Koenders; David Hurman; Gordon Garland; Gary Williams; Tony Sharpe; Anne Brown; Mike Love; Pavla Love; I Gray; J A Boote; G A Campbell; Peter Brainwood; Edwin Dunlop; Tony Robinson; R H Leonard; Andrey Glavatskyy; A B Edies-Davies; Dr J Armstrong; M Irvine; Jane Palmer; Chris Rae; Janet Griffin; Rod Lowcock; Christine Brown; C E M Jukes; A Barrere; Don Munro; Mike Lakey; Dan Yoemans; D Hartley; Stella Tinsley; Jerry Jacobsen; Nicolay Love; Alison Read; George Paul; Maureen Hill; Rodger Thom; Ceris Jones; Ian Black; Robin Preece; H Pinches; P Burke; S R Curseley; Marianne Ball; J Love; K Hough; J E Davies; H K Buchanan; Becky Bradley; K Love; S Mapson; P S Millar; A Trumper; A Pitchforth; M Watt; K Cooper; A Lawrence; D Thomson; G Duthie; P J Ayton; Donald Brown; Pam Roper; Anna Clutterbuck; Peter Ballard; Alan Wynde; Judie Goldie; Isabel Schulz; Anna Feurstein; Francesco Bassetti; Rebecca Sarah Nayagam; Sumithra Durai; Sean Burch; Bert Bollongino; Jeroen van den Akker; Hans Mantel; Joke Koerts; Peter Dewolfe; William Koll; Tom Searle; Eben Jones; Dick Verstegen; Ellen Deiman; Katja Staartjes; Tom Sooke; Rory Howard; Alistair Milne; Alex James

Trusts, Companies, etc. Anthony Walker Charitable Trust; Soutar Charitable Trust; Paget Charitable Trust; The Paul Charitable Trust; The Charities Trust; Chubb-Bullied Ltd; KA! Organic, Burch HyperFitness Systems, TRAID, USAID, UNWTO, SNV; STEP Foundation; DFID/ UK-Aid; IMAF; ISIS Foundation; Stichting Waterproject Nepal; The Crown at Wells.

Rotary Clubs Avalon; Wells; Lincoln Bailgate; Callender & West Perth; Bramall & Woodford; Aberlour & Speyside; Ilkley Warfedale; Taunton; Horwich; Currie Balerno; Bognor Hotham; Newmarket; Eccles; Stonehouse; Durham; Salford with Swinton; Sturminster Newton; Lockerbie; Farnham Weyside; Bathgate; Bradford; Beaconsfield; Misbourne Matins; Mawddach; Dolgellau; Welshpool; Newtown; Porthmadog; Anton; Lincoln Colonia; Himalayan Gurkhas; Mt. Everest; Lalitpur; District 1090; District 1180; District 1200; District 1270; District 3292; Elgin; Cambridge; Buckie; Bridgewater; Leith; Braunton; Henley Bridge; Bath West; Barnstable; Chippenham; Annan; Falkirk; Patan West

Wells & Avalon Rotary Clubs (D1200) Our special thanks once again go to the Rotary Clubs of Avalon and Wells. Rotarians from those clubs joined the 2010 trek to build programme at Torpa and will also be joining the 2012 trek to build programme at Bargaun. Together the clubs organise a boules tournament every year (this year is the 12th) in the market square at Wells. Over the years this event has raised a magnificent contribution which in total is well in excess of £60,000. This year they have already raised over £10,000 towards our work through a sale of promises event and a sponsored 3 peaks challenge, and the 2012 boules tournament is yet to be held! If you would like to enter a team or learn more about the boules tournament please contact Adrian Lawrence via Sara at Sara@crownatwells.co.uk

Jeroen at Bradford Rotary

The Annual Wells Boules Tournament

Finally, many thanks to our print sponsors Jones and Palmer.

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Anna shoots for YouTube Freelance photographer, Anna McPherson, winner of the Best Short Film at the Moray Film Festival 2010, who joined Chairman Mike and his wife Pavla on a three week trek in Humla in 2011, has prepared a short mission statement film documentary. It explains the difficulties of aid delivery in the Karnali region and how the Nepal Trust, assisted by volunteers from around the world, is working with local communities and governments to deliver progress.

In addition the Trust has been featured in Rotary International Nepal’s official TV show (Image Channel), in which many of our successful projects over the years have been highlighted. It emphasises how Rotary and the Nepal Trust have become a prime example of an international partnership, able to provide effective grass-roots development in what are some of the most remote corners of the Himalayas.

Visit http://www.nepaltrust.org/videos to watch the video and please get your friends to watch as well.

Anna McPherson

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Kumar Marg, Nursery Land House # 46, Bansbari,

Kathmandu, Nepal Tel./ Fax. +977 (1) 4372354

PHOTO ALBUM

Above: Inside Muchu Gompa Above: Solar Project

Above: Inside Tea House on the GHT

Above: Making Yak Butter

Above: On the GHT

Above: Yalbang School Library Construction Above: Kermi Community Health Committee

Right: Student Volunteers