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Support Rural Nepal with Amazon Smile (For Free!)

Did you know you can support our work in rural Nepal when you shop on Amazon, and it won't cost you a penny more? When you select the Colorado Nepal Alliance as your preferred charity on Amazon Smile (smile.amazon.com), they will donate 0.5% of your purchase to support our programming in rural Nepal. It takes less than a minute to set up, and won't cost you a thing. Amazon Smile in Two Easy Steps: Step 1. Select Colorado Nepal Alliance as your preferred charity: Just click the banner below to tell Amazon that we're your preferred charity. (You might need to sign-in to your account so that Amazon  remembers your choice.): Step 2. Shop from ...

Kuri Project Details with Jeremi Poulin

After nine weeks in Nepal, Colorado Nepal Alliance Director Anne Hines is back home in Denver, but our organization's work in Nepal continues to gain momentum. While Anne is focused on fundraising during the holiday season, the day to day details of our newly-announced Kuri School Rebuilding Project are in the able hands of CNA volunteer Jeremi Poulin. Among other things, Jeremi has experience with construction projects in India, and has traveled extensively in Nepal both independently and as the leader of trekking tours. We are so grateful to have Jeremi as a member of our team! Jeremi accompanied Anne and Gopal Tamang to Darkha VDC in October ...

School Rebuilding Partnership in Kuri, Nepal

The Colorado Nepal Alliance (CNA) has established a rebuilding partnership with the Lower Secondary School in Kuri, Darkha VDC. The school teaches grades 1-8, as well as a combined pre-K and kindergarten “playgroup.” This is the second time we have built a school with the people of Kuri, and we're thrilled to work with them again! Our first building project in Kuri was partially completed during the winter of 2014/2015 and was waiting for concrete to be poured in the spring. That classroom was badly damaged in the April 2015 earthquake, along with nine others. The classroom that CNA funded was to be a dedicated computer classroom. In the ...

CNA signs contract with Landmark Architectural Design Studio

  Colorado Nepal Alliance has entered into a contract with Landmark ADS to rebuild a number of classrooms at a school in rural Darkha, Nepal. Last year, the school educated approximately 600 students in all, grades K-12. The school is notable for being the only school in Darkha that serves older students in the eleventh and twelfth grades. The earthquakes in April and May of 2015 destroyed nearly all of the buildings on campus. The lone exception was a newly-built reinforced concrete building, providing a paltry two offices and two classrooms to share among its six-hundred students and staff.  Nearly all students are studying ...

Making Contacts at the Earthbag Rebuild Nepal Summit

The Colorado Nepal Alliance joined with Nepali architects, engineers, NGOs, and others this past weekend at the Earthbag Rebuild Summit at Kopundol in the Lalipur District of Nepal, to hear speakers, meet with experts, and evaluate the technique for use in rural villages devastated by the April 2015 earthquakes and aftershocks. CNA Director Anne Hines and Nepal Project Coordinator Gopal Tamang were joined at the summit by Rajan Simkhada of Mamata Volunteers, an NGO that will be partnering with our organization on rebuilding projects in rural Nepal. The main speaker at the summit was Dr. Owen Geiger, the preeminent expert on Earthbag ...

CNA Director Departs for Nepal

Colorado Nepal Alliance (CNA) Executive Director Anne Hines is on her way from her home in Colorado to Nepal to oversee CNA’s earthquake rebuilding efforts and attend a summit on rebuilding techniques.

Red Tarps & Red Tape

The Nepali Times just published a great article about the challenges that the Nepali bureaucracy poses to aid organizations like ours. What they describe is consistent with our experience getting aid into rural Nepal in the interval between the April 25th earthquakes and the beginning of the monsoon season in late June, detailed below. The whole article is worth reading, (link at the end of this post), but here's the key paragraph: While we were able to procure an initial shipment of several tons of food, tents, 32 tarps, and other assorted materials into Darkha in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, the villagers let us know that they ...

Aftershock: Here’s how Nepal is coping after two earthquakes left nearly 9,000 dead, 16,800 injured | National Post

Aftershock: Here’s how Nepal is coping after two earthquakes left nearly 9,000 dead, 16,800 injured Source: Aftershock: Here’s how Nepal is coping after two earthquakes left nearly 9,000 dead, 16,800 injured | National Post

Monsoon likely to Arrive this Weekend

Nepal's Meteorological Forecasting Division (MFD) based in Kathmandu, Nepal, is indicating that the summer monsoon will likely begin within the next few days. An abundance of moisture in the air in the northeastern part of the country makes thunderstorms increasingly likely in the near future, causing concerns about further landslides. [1. Meteorological Forecasting Division. “Special Weather Update.” Government. Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, June 11, 2015. http://www.mfd.gov.np/content/?id=131.] Already, landslides have been triggered by the incoming weather to the east of Kathmandu, causing casualties in rural Nepal. ...

Early June in Darkha

The work continues in Darkha preparing for the rainy season. Our Nepal Coordinator Gopal Tamang shared these photos with us, and we're passing them along to you. It's heartening to see members of the community working together like this, and it's nice to be reminded that, despite all there is to do, progress is being made.