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3rd June 2015

HUNDRED GATHERED IN NEPAL (DETAILS IN PAGE 4 )

KATHMANDU, JUN 25 - Police rounded up around two dozen protesters from outside the Soaltee Hotel, the venue of the International Conference on Nepal’s Reconstruction, in Kathmandu on Thursday.They were staging a peaceful rally carrying placards that read “Nepal is only open for investment”, “Aid Slavery= Zero Prosperity,” “Lessons from Haiti! No to Aid Addiction.”

As many as 23 activists affiliated to Bibeksheel Nepali , a political party, including Chairman Ujjwal Thapa have been arrested for staging the protest. Govinda Narayan, from the legislative department of the youth-led party, said the police detained the activists shortly after the conference commenced this morning. ”We want to urge donors to not only provide aid but to invest in Nepal as well,” said Govinda Narayan, “But police said this was not allowed and they had orders from above to make arrests."

CONTENT INSIDE

#Bibeksheel Nepali Activities

#Bhukampa Karkhana

#Nepali Toastmasters

# Aba K Garne and Cleaning Campaign

#Hundreds Gathered In Nepal

#Bibeksheel Nepali Activities

#International/Strategic Alliance

#Organizational Structure

Nepal wants more investments not aid.

Nepali society can never lift itself out of poverty if our leadership continues to embrace this culture of ‘abject’ begging. Our leadership’s attitude and the subsequent system it has built accepts donors as gods. This has created a extractive model of opaque (non-transparent), corrupt and unequal donor driven society. The government and non-governmental institutions engineered around foreign aid have in the last five decades remained largely unanswerable to the people of Nepal (It is been 14 years since we had any locally elected officials-leaders to guide us). Our rulers have consistently over-promised and under-delivered specially when it comes to use of foreign aid. One simple proof lies in the much hyped earthquake preparedness campaign with the help of millions of dollars of foreign aid. Look where it got us!

For More :- www.whynepal.com

Simon DhunganaBy

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Bibeksheel Nepali immediate response team reached teaching hospital by 12:25 pm within 30 minutes after 25th April earthquake.

Within 24 hours Bibeksheel Nepali had set up support team at Teaching hospital, Bir hospital and Bhaktapur hospital.

Bibeksheel Nepali dispatched 1st relief package to Arupokhari, Gorkha materials include Rice-99 sacks, Dal -5 sacks, Oil-500 packets, Tripal- 92 pieces, Blankets- 11 bundles, salt-500 packets, cloths 12 sacks.

1st medical relief team was dispatched to Paga, Kritipur at 3 pm, 27. Team included 5 doctors and took 1 box of medicine.

BN Nepali helped more than 5,834 houses during

earthquake relief campaign.

More than 300 numbers of Localities/ Village have been provided relief through BSN volunteers and partners.

BSN team has visited 17 districts and 406 areas. Most visits made by BN

partners were to

Sindhupalchowk 50 times and Kathmandu 118times.Bibeksheel Nepali

ActivitiesPost-Earthquake Activities

Bhukampa Karkhana(Earthquake Factory)At Dhokshan, Nagarkot (kavre)

ALLIANCE BUILDING

Bibeksheel Nepali worked with more than 677 Alliances and other individuals worked with for relief work after earthquake.

CONTACT FOR ALLIANCE BUILDING WITH USalliance.bibeksheel@gmail.com

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The devastating earthquake of 25th April 2015 has caused unimaginable destruction. Bibeksheel Nepali pioneered a rehablitation project called “Bhukampa Karkhana” in Kavre. The team has finished the first phase of this project by dismantling the damaged houses. The second phase of the construction work is going which is to build Bhukampa Karkhana whose main objective is to provide vocational traninng to the local residents of that place. This project is handled by Diwas shrestha and Pradeep Dhakal while the senior leadership is of Govinda Narayan Timilsina. Nanu Tamang is assisting the team as a volunteers coordinator.

“E- DOLPA” EDUCATE DOLPA

Kapil Karki Bibeksheel Nepali Active Member Kapil Karki has left for the educate dolpa project as a teaching volunteer for 6 month. The Snow Yak Foundation is founded by Binod Shahi Nepa (the sir of Himalayas) and a group of young people to promote and increase access of quality education in remote districts of Nepal.Binod Shahi Nepa along with other volunteers goes to the remote district of Dolpa every year to teach the children there and make quality education service available for them. Popularly know as the "Dolpa project" a solely Nepali funded school has already been established in the district.

For more: - www.snowyak.org

FAST FACTS

1350+More than 1350 new members joined Bibeksheel Nepali Party after earthquake

1500+More than 1500 volontaires were associates with Bibeksheel Nepali after earthquake

MY COUNTRY MY RESPONSIBILITIES

Here are some Bibeksheel values, we expect each member to live up to and build our organizational culture around these values.

FOR MORE:-

Bibeksheel Nepali Values

A toastmaster is a nonprofit educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of helping members improve their communication, public speaking and leadership skills.

Bibeksheel Nepali has taken the initiative to start the club in Nepali (Nepali Toastmasters). It is gradually leading to get more formalized with the help of Shangri-La Toastmasters. As Bibeksheel Nepali is a rising political force, we wanted to create leaders who could speak out their actions. We believe, to be a national leader, one need to communicate purely in their national language. We have a habit of saturating our Nepali speeches with English words. To remove this flaw, and to improve our Nepali Public speaking skills, Nepali Toastmasters was initiated in Bibeksheel Nepali. Every Toastmasters journey begins with a single speech. Toastmasters Nepal meets every week for one and a half hours and follow a basic agenda prepared by the club.

So far we’ve had four meetings and a combined attendance of more than a hundred people. This club is not only for the ones who want to be leaders, but for everyone who want to improve their Nepali public speaking skills.

Toastmasters MissionIt empowers individuals to become more effective communicators and leaders.Toastmasters International Values

Integrity Respect Service ExcellenceNepali Toastmaster

By Toastmaster Executive Comittee

Photo of Bibeksheel Nepali Health Camp and Water distribution programme at Machhe gaun

Photo Via: - Bhai Raja Bhandari

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Since 13th June we have been actively involved in Hanumante River cleaning program and “Aba K Garne” a public interaction program in Bhaktapur. Abiral Karki has been the leader to take this initiative and he is also the district coordinator there. He has also set up a Bibeksheel Nepali Help Desk in Changunarayan, while the Suryabinayak Help Desk is headed by Abinash Basnet. A health camp had also been conducted recently on July 4th in Changunarayan School.

Nepalese people gather hand in hand around the collapsed Dharahara Tower in Kathmandu on May 25, 2015, to mark one month since a deadly earthquake struck the country, killing more than 8,600Kathmandu (AFP) - Hundreds of Nepalese gathered Monday at the rubble of a 19th-century tower in Kathmandu to mark one month since a devastating earthquake killed more than 8,600 people in the Himalayan nation. The quake, which was followed by a second major tremor on May 12, brought down buildings across the country including historic temples, monuments and the much-loved Dharahara tower as tourists and locals climbed its more than 200 steps.  After the national anthem was played on loudspeakers, crowds surrounded the collapsed tower and observed 56 seconds of silence at 11:56, the moment the 7.8-magnitude quake ripped through Nepal on April 25.

Hundreds gather in Nepal capital to mark one month since quake

Media Coverage Via: - Business Insider (AFP)

Aba K Garne & Cleaning CampaignBy Abiral Karki

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June 6, Bibeksheel Nepali (BN) sent relief materials at Gorkha, Lho VDC, Li village ward 2 & 3, through helicopter in the leadership of Pukar Bam and Milan Pandey.

June 9, BN Distributed Relief materials to “Bal Punarsthapana tatha Kalyan Kendra” (Orphanage), Bhaktapur in coordination of Abiral Karki.

June 13, BN started “Aba K Garne” at Bhaktapur in the initiation of Abiral Karki and will continue it every week on Saturday.

BN had also done sanitation program at Bhairab Temple in coordination with Gyan Bhairab Yuwa Club, Gyaneshwor in the leadership of Milan Pandey. BN Social Service Club had organize sanitation programme at Balaju in the leadership of of Ranju Neupane (Dharsana) And BN also conducted Health Camp at Chaughare, Lalitpur in coordination with Chitwan School of Medical Science. Programme was assisted by Sudeep Acharya and Pranab Chhetri.

June 14, BN conducted Health Camp at Daapcha, Kavre in

coordination with Pragya Miron Organization with the help of Sudeep Acharya and Pranab Chhetri.

June 19, 20, 21, BN conducted Health Camp for Kartikey Sindhupalchowk in coordination of Sudeep Acharya for three days.

June 20 and June 27, BN had organized Health camp at Macchegaun and is still continued on every Saturday, in the leadership of Bhai Raja Bhandari

Bibeksheel Nepali Activities In The Month of June

OUR CODE OF CONDUCT

By becoming a member of BibekSheel Nepali, I hereby solemnly pledge to take on the task of contributing for positive change. I understand the importance of this collective effort, and I agree to be a member under the aegis of principles, values and norms of the platform. This is important so that the focus is not lost.

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Bibeksheel Nepali Code Of Conduct

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Conducted” Local leadership Training” at ward 33 by Govinda Narayan and Milan Pandey Cleanliness programme at Hanumante Khola with the aim of making the river area clean and planning to make a garden near it with the help of local people on upcoming days was a great start. Initaiation was done by Abiral Karki. BN organized Cleanliness campaign at Basantapur Durbar Area by Pukar Bam

June 20 and June28, Cleanliness programme at Maitighar was conducted with an objective of saving and cleaning the dust and weeds around the plant. It was planted by Nepal government before few months. Abinash Basnet and Prajjwol Kafle took the initiation of it.

BIBEKSHEEL NEPALI

Police detain Bibeksheel Nepali members,leadersPolice detained around two dozen leaders and cadres of Bibeksheel Nepali party after they demonstrated demanding more investment than donations, near the venue of International Conference on Nepal’s Reconstruction, on Thursday.

Find Mentor

We have set a mentoring session twice in a week- Sundays and Wednesdays at our office where we opt to give one-to-one advising/mentoring/feedback session.

For More :- Ideas For Mentorship

Profile In CourageWhen a house catches fire, there are two ways people react. A group of people runs away, without looking back and the second type goes to the house on fire to save people trapped inside.

See more at: Profile In Courage

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In Dec 2014, I was thrilled to know about Bibeksheel Nepali, a movement by the youths for new beginnings in the country. Though accidental how I met Ujwal dai, it was at a right time since I was at a crossroads, after spending more than 9 years in the US, of what wanted to do next in my life. Though it was hard to truly pursue what I wanted in Nepal, Bibeksheel Nepali gave me a lot of hope and inspiration that there are many youths like me who feel that we all need to be the uniting force with the determination to pursue what is right for the country. I got actively engaged when I started volunteering of Bibeksheel Nepali on 13 May, a day after the second big earthquake hit. I immediately got a project to coordinate all relief efforts from different groups and organizations. In a collaborative manner, we wanted to create a platform where everyone could share his or her information on relief and rehabilitation work. We connected with 17 organizations and 12 individuals leading their own groups. Since then, our list

of alliances has been growing. In this collaborative work, we had major discussions with quakemap.org, sodhpuch.com, leapfrog and other IT professionals in creating an IT platform to coordinate all data on relief work between the different organizations. The open program relievo.org was created through the works of Mr. Shakti Shrestha (Shangrila Microsystem), Mr. Dixanta Shrestha (LeapFrog) and Mr. Tanka Poudel.

We also successfully held a program along with a few other organizations to inspire and keep the enthusiasm and strength of volunteerism in youths alive. We had over 300 attendees while 40 unknown faces of volunteers spoke on their volunteerism experience. You can watch the video in the Facebook page: Nepali Volunteer (community).

With the upsurge of Bibeksheel Nepali supporters throughout, there was an increasing need to coordinate with Nepalese based out of the country, who were also our strongest benefactors. Hence, I continued to work in alliance building and manage our work internationally as well. Our international Bibeksheel Nepali units prior to the earthquake were USA, S. Korea, Germany and UAE. Now we have UK and AUS chapter established. We have interests in Japan, Malaysia, Qatar, Russia, Ukraine and India for a unit formation.

Our Bibeksheel Nepali leaders abroad are: Sanjay Rimal for the USA team, Abhisek Basnyat for UK, Karma Tamang for the Germany team, Sujal Shrestha for the UAE team while Kiran Adhikari has been actively leading South Korea

International/Strategic Alliance Anusa Thapa

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chapter. It has been great working with exceptional Nepalese in and out of the country, and I endeavor to learn more about the different lives of our Nepalese brother and

sisters all over the world and how Bibeksheel Nepali can help fulfill their dreams for Nepal.

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25th April 2015, an evolution in Bibeksheel caused the realization of professional desks working to facilitate overall activities. Human resource, monitoring and control, advocacy and policy, Finance, Fund raising, International alliance, IT, Media and Communication, Medical are some of the major desks working to devise instruments and policies to frame Bibeksheel activities into a structure to achieve objectives. The realization of such desks developed a transition period which necessitates pragmatic approaches. Coordination between the desks are being achieved by regular “scrum meeting” every day in which we briefly discuss: “what one did yesterday, what one will do today and what are the plans of tomorrow?” lead by CEO. This meeting is gradually making desks understand the vulnerabilities and developing remedies. Also gradually helping to understand core area of the desk and overcome task overlapping.

We believe in any-time any-where work. This idea propagated use of information technology; we use Google docs for day to day works which is creating a virtual environment and ease in communication. We share plans, policies, proposals, and schedules and take approvals making information accessible. This approach has also made ease to develop a participative culture in which we ask for feedback

from relevant stakeholders before implementing them. Current achievements after professional desks are volunteer management policy, performance

management system, delegation of authority,

reimbursement of expenses carried by volunteers, monitoring and control framework, qualitative expansion in alliancing and fund raising. Framing policies and SOP’s might create some resistance but our participative approach is gradually evolving us towards more professional, more accountable, more reliable, more transparent and more trustworthy Bibeksheel.

Organizational Structure Ashish Adhikari

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