A few months ago, a workshop on "Hygiene around menstrual bleeding" took place in Narighar. At that time, Dr. Mingma Sherpa had trained the participating women on various topics around the monthly period. As a follow-up project, reusable sanitary pads were produced for the first time in Narighar at the beginning of April. A first promising attempt to counteract the waste problem in Kathmandu and to offer women a cheap alternative to improvised [...]
Our long-standing, very committed supporter Gabrielle and her husband Joachim were finally able to travel to Nepal again in February. Of course, the two organized a small party for La Dhoka with special food, music and dance. Our teenagers especially enjoyed the occasion and nibbled blissfully through the burger dreamland. Thank you dear Gabrielle & Joachim!
"We have to do another parade," Laxmi was repeatedly told by the Narighar women. So again this year the banners were unpacked, women were rounded up, saris put on and dances and speeches were composed. On March 8, the crowd marched through the streets of Balkhu, with the Kusuntikids at the head of the procession. Uraj drives the scooter, Suryansh holds the speakers and Priya and Alisha shout the slogans :).
At irregular intervals, Laxmi, often accompanied by BK, employees of Narighar or some of the Kusunti children, visits our scholarship children. Recently, it was the turn of "our" students at the Balmikishwor School in Baktapur. Here we support 12 students*. Attendance at the government schools is free of charge in Nepal, but parents still have to pay the expenses for school uniforms, books, exercise books, etc. Laxmi and her crew have therefore [...]
Every year at the end of February or beginning of March, the Shivaratri festival is celebrated in Hinduism. Shivaratri or Mahashivaratri is an important holiday in Hinduism. For the worshippers of the god Shiva it is the highest festival, the holiest of all nights. In our Narighar one rarely overlooks a chance to party and so the Kusunti girls Sujata and Alisha dressed up as Shiva and Parvati (Shiva's wife) and enjoyed themselves for an [...]
In early September, we received a disturbing message from Kathmandu "Children are sick," Laxmi wrote. For the time being, the symptoms (fatigue, temperature) affected "only" Alisha and Priya. Laxmi took them to the hospital for a check-up and after various blood tests, the somewhat surprising diagnosis of dengue fever was made. It soon became clear that this was a veritable outbreak of the plague in the Kathmandu Valley and throughout Nepal*. [...]
Around 23 women sit in narrow rows in the Narighar and wait patiently until Dr. Mingma Sherpa arrives, the projector is installed and everything is ready. Hygiene around menstruation is the topic today. Dr. Mingma Sherpa starts from scratch knowingly. What does a uterus look like? What functions do the individual parts have? Why and how is there a menstrual period at all? Which cycle lengths are considered normal and what can we do about the [...]
The Child Welfare Office has been urging us to do so for a long time: We have space and a good place and on top of everything not the required 10 children in our children's home in Kusunti. Therefore, this year in June we were assigned another girl: Sujata is 10 years old and, like Anik, comes from the distant mountain region of Jumla. Although she has a biological mother and a sister, she has been living with relatives for some time. These [...]
On May 30, 2022, Louie and Simone arrive in Kathmandu with their "Winterthur bicycles" after ten months of travel! They have covered almost 12,000 kilometres in 14 countries to achieve this (first) goal. On their blog and the Instagram channel outcycling21 they report in detail about this journey. Outcycling was also "kicking for La Dhoka" and thanks to the mileage sponsors and orders for postcards and letters, a proud sum came together. How [...]
