May 2019 – Amics del Nepal

Block, Wood or Stone – a Song for Social Awareness

One of the objectives of Awasuka Program (*) is to convey its knowledge to as many people as possible. Sometimes this means inventing new communication strategies outside the traditional channels. That’s why Awasuka team has decided to make a musical awareness video to transmit knowledge about safe…

24/05/2019

The construction of 120 chimneys starts in Bhimphedi

February 4th 2019, the Awasuka volunteers who carried out the Retrofitting works leave Bhimphedi, but Awasuka continues to work from Barcelona. Amongst many other tasks, Monica works on the editing of a video for chimney-hood awareness: Manisha Gurung contributes to this video on the English…

19/05/2019

Trip to Makwanpur Gadhi

On 6th April, the Bhimphedi BalMandir family visited Makwanpur Gadhi and had a great picnic sponsored by the local Women Finance Association on the occasion of the association’s Annual Day. The family travelled with the whole team of the association. The association intends to help…

17/05/2019

WLP EXCURSION 2019: “Lele Manakamana Temple”

Since 2017, Amics has been organizing yearly excursions to the women of the literacy project as a recreational activity. So far our women have visited four temples. As the Nepali calendar was about to end, we decided to close this program by going to Lele…

15/05/2019

Solidarity lunch in Castellar del Vallès

On Saturday, June 1, we invite you to come to the last solidarity lunch of this school year in Castellar del Vallès! Come to taste Nepal and participate in the NGO Amics del Nepal’s projects. To register, just fill out the form https://forms.gle/gBvSY1Gmhur3rxro8 or send…

13/05/2019

Mushroom Farming at Bhimphedi

The first precedent of “Namuna Bari” project began on September 2002 with two young students from ESAB (Escola Superior Agricultura Barcelona). Literally “namuna” means model and “bari” orchard. Nowadays, this second part of the project is an agricultural exercise in Balmandir (Bhimphedi) where the main…

13/05/2019

I’m single, the new dance of Balmandir Guys

“Single Chhu” is the new dance video of Balmandir Guys, the group of dancers from the Children’s Home of Bhimphedi. This video has been completed in just three days and it has been shot in different locations of Bhimphedi, including the children’s home, the “pokhari”…

10/05/2019

New kids, new year, life continues in Balmandir

Five days before of the Nepali new year I (Surendra, center chief of Bhimphedi Balmandir) went with Kamal (one of the elder kids of the children’s home) to Naxal Children’s Home Central Office to take new children to be taken care in Bhimphedi. Every year…

01/05/2019