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I paid a carpenter NPR 15,000 to make six beds for mothers with small
babies in the Pepsi Cola camp. This has become very waterlogged and
they are sleeping on groundsheets. I also paid for repairs to Samundra’s
motorcycle, which was damaged by landslide last time he went up to his
village. Without his help I would not be able to achieve so much for his
people.
Discussions about relocating the Kodari IDPs don’t seem to be going
anywhere. My initial contact in IOM passed their case on to someone
who immediately tried to shift it back to me. He then said that IOM do
not look after such people, but he would try to find an NGO that would!
It looks like we are their best bet for the immediate future. I really
wonder what some of these NGOs do to justify their existence.
I am still waiting for Basant Kunwar to get back to me about the situation
in Banakhu, East of Kathmandu. He has been roped into the endless
round of seminars and “workshops” that seem to be the stock-in-trade of
international NGOs. These workshops waste time and don’t get any work
done. In some ways I sympathize with the Nepal government when they
ask international donors not to distribute their relief through
international NGOs.
Andrew Duncan
The people from Kodari are now supported by the Ride High Foundation.
You are welcome to subscribe via their website
(www.ridehigh.com). The
Gurkha Brigade Association and Sirmoor Club recommend donations to
relief efforts are made via the Gurkha Welfare Trust
(www.gwt.org.uk).
The Sirmoor Durbar 2015
A souvenir programme of the Durbar will be produced later this year,
including many pages of pictures. In the interim readers of
The Sirmooree
,
particularly those who could not attend in person, might be interested in this
short account of what went on.
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