Women Program – Amics del Nepal

Women Literacy Classes in Bhimphedi Balmandir

The Women Literacy Project (WLP) has been ongoing for many years now at the Kathmandu Activity Centre. The project envisions dignified and well-informed lives for women leading to their well-being. The project further enables women to be proactive and has plans to promote self-sustainability empowering…

02/08/2020

Namuna Bari’s new equipment

One of the primary aims of our Namuna Bari kitchen garden has been to make the Balmandir in Bhimphedi as sustainable as possible. This has proven crucial during these last three months of lockdown imposed nationwide because of the Coronavirus. With this in mind, we…

29/07/2020

June ‘20 Relief Materials Distribution

In this crucial moment of global pandemic – COVID-19 (Corona Virus) and amidst the situation of nationwide lockdown, many people have been directly affected especially those who are daily wage earners. Since the lockdown has been extending for the past three months and counting, people…

03/07/2020

Third mushroom plantation in Bhimphedi, Balmandir

The third mushroom cultivation was also carried out successfully and was launched on 18th February 2020 in Bhimphedi, Balmandir. Once all the raw materials were received the plantation was carried out. This time the implementation of straw sterilization wasn’t carried out in Balmandir. The mushroom…

28/04/2020

Women International Day 2020

This week, in Amics del Nepal, we have partaken in several events, both in Catalonia and in Nepal, to celebrate the International Women’s Day and to claim women’s rights. Music by Scandinavian composers at the Barcelona Municipal Conservatory of Music. Within the program of the…

08/03/2020

“Sempre a punt!”, my friend Toni

On January 14 died in Kathmandu Toni Aguilar, a Catalan resident who 20 years ago left the computer programming work he was doing here, to move to Nepal and create an entity with which he wanted to contribute by improving the lives of disadvantaged people.…

09/02/2020

Cartoon vegetable activity at Balmandir

On 12th of December a vegetable activity was conducted in Balmandir with the children. All the vegetables and fruits were formed in cartoon form to make the activity more interesting. Each of these fruits and vegetables characters said some sentences about their properties, their care,…

15/01/2020

Awareness cinema: Nepal after the earthquake

On December 19, Tarannà and Eventos con Alma organized a new Cinema of Consciousness. This time the Girona cinema was packed of people to listen about Nepal, the 2015 earthquake and the work done by Awasuka. The event consisted of the projection of the music…

05/01/2020

Second mushroom plantation in Balmandir

After the completion of the first mushroom cultivation, on 24th September 2019 the second mushroom cultivation was launched in Bhimphedi, Balmandir. As the plantation was done previously the team did not have any problem in cultivating it. Once all the raw materials were received the…

27/11/2019

Bhimphedi’s historic buildings

One of the actions Awasuka started about a year ago is the awareness about the preservation of Bhimphedi’s historic buildings. In this place there are three different types of architecture: Rana, Newar and Tamang, all three very interesting in terms of their historical value and…

10/11/2019