Providing new battery back up and solar panels for Hospice Nepal, along with storage units, medical supplies, pressure relief equipment and syringe driver extension sets.
Small grant scheme launched. Training and resources delivered to one of the national cancer hospitals.
Financial Contributions made for a variety of projects helping Schools and Health Provision in the region. Initiation of School Hostel Project and further support for Health Projects in the area.
Participation in a variety of a Health Projects and the beginning of our involvement in the Menstruation Project. In addition to agreeing to fund a small monthly living allowance for Bishnu, the qualified nurse/midwife in Arnakot. The charity agreed to sponsor the training and all associated costs for a second nurse. The community chose Durga who was from a humble background and had dreamed of becoming a nurse. The training will last for two years and be mainly based in and around Pokhara. We also paid for necessary medication and equipment for the health post in Arnakot to enable to community to have access to free health care if needed.
Support for Menstruation Pads Project and Provision of Covid19 Emergency Assistance.
Food relief to seventy-five families in Makwanpur in Jan 2021. Funding for a Year 6 teacher. 500 kits of reusable menstruation pads funded. Emergency medical supplies for Arnakot Health Post. Warm winter clothes packages containing a warm hooded coat, a fleece, scarf and two pairs of warm socks given to 100 children Educational support packages distributed to 100 primary aged children.
Funding for a Year 7 teacher is agreed. The government has taken on the salary for the year 6 teacher. Small grant is extended to a 4th women’s cooperative Warm winter clothes packages are distributed to 198 children
The new birthing suite extension to the health post is completed. Architect Rob Rickey spent many hours designing the extension and NEPAL-ease contributed more than £11,000 towards the costs. In addition, the charity sends out £7000 annually to Arnakot. This is put towards the running costs of the health post, including staff wages and free medications and dressings for the community. It also includes the purchasing of goats as part of a sustainability project. NEPAL-ease funded the palliative care training of 18 healthcare workers, held at Green Pastures hospital.
Another year of funding the Health Post at Arnakot plus funding ten goats as part of a future sustainability project. Palliative care training for a further twenty nurses in Nisikhola. In Makwampur, a sixth women’s cooperative is set up, new students’ counselling room is furnished. Another 233 winterisation packages are funded and distributed. Successful one day workshop bringing all six women’s’ cooperatives together to share best practice and joint opportunities.
Trustee visit to Nepal. Four women cooperatives visited plus new counselling room. Six women have completed training to sew reusable menstruation pads, fifty four kits are given out as part of a pilot project.