Hello and Namaste. We are Bill and Linda from Australia. We trekked on the Community Trek Trail in 2013. Prem, our guide, was very experienced and he gave us some great advice: “Walk slowly, take many rests” and so we were happy to move at a comfortable pace that we could sustain. The first leg of the trek is up, up and more up so we greatly appreciated a refreshing masala tea at our destination at the community center at Banskharka village. I was impressed by the no-plastic policy that forms part of the ecologically sensitive nature of the trek....
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Nepal: The Hearts of Americans by Jim Pesout
Mahabir Pun, the community developer, is the most self-effacing, dynamic, humble, brilliant, charismatic, hard-working, nearsighted (optically), forward-thinking, paunchy, energetic person I have ever met. World travel has a way of connecting us with ordinary and sometimes amazing people. Mahabir’s the one who thought up and implemented the Eco-Community Development Trail. When I first met him in Kathmandu in his social development restaurant — one of the many projects he has brought to fruition — I thought I must have the wrong person. Certainly this is not the iconic, internationally-renowned, award-winning Nepali I’d heard so much about. This guy looks like a...
NEPAL’S RURAL SURGERY PROJECT
Making Surgical Care Available to the Remote Rural Areas of Nepal by Dave Carlson. Providing healthcare to the remote areas of Nepal has always been a challenge from the public health and clinical perspectives. Populated urban areas have historically benefited in quality and services over populations residing in hill and mountain areas. While sparsely populated, over half of Nepal consists of hill and mountain communities. Now as never before, technological innovation is making it possible to seriously address the health needs of millions of Nepalese people long marginalized. Increasingly tele-medicine is reaching out to remote small clinics and in doing...
Free Windows 8 Background Theme
HEF – Windows 8 background Theme Click on the image to download the free Windows 8 background theme. The theme is stored in a ZIP file. You will see a download option to open or save. Choose OPEN. Then double click on the only file in the folder. The desktop theme will automatically install on Windows 8
Kathleen Lee Flute Recital for Hands in Hands in March 2014
Kathleen Sungu Lee, a high school senior at Seoul Foreign School (SFS) has recently founded the Hands in Hands Foundation, primarily to support the underprivileged students in Nangi Village, Nepal. The main focus of the foundation is to provide tailored renewable energy solutions, mostly solar PV power and small-hydro power, and an affordable Energy Storage System (ESS), to the impoverished Nangi community in Nepal. Kathleen took the initiative to perform a flute concert to raise support to continue with these projects. Her March 2014 concert at the uJung Art Center in Seoul raised $9,000 US. Dr. Mahabir Pun is grateful...
HEF Board Changes
Mahabir was able to reconnect with faculty from the University of Nebraska at Kearney and the Kearney community at large during his attendance at the Fall 2013 UNK World Affairs conference. In meeting with several individuals, it was suggested that the board be expanded locally. In addition to current board members Dr Leonard Skov and Bill Ballou; Susan Bigg, Dr Ron Konecny. Sally Lundell, Sherry Morrow, and Peg and Roger Nyffeler agreed to serve on the HEF board. The new board met in February and May of 2014. We have updated the HEF mission statement. Also an agreement with a...
Reflexology to Ukulele Playing: One Volunteer’s Experience
Pam, a recent volunteer from the UK, had this to say about her experience: “I spent a month in Nangi this last summer (2013) and I had a great time. I gave some classes on reflexology to the women from the village with the idea that they could do some foot massage on the Trekkers passing through and staying at the lodge. A total of 6 women were interested and attended 10 classes. There were classes for the 10 young girls, 17 years old that we had at 7 am because they were busy the rest of the day! I...
Dr. Mahabir Pun and Volunteers Install Solar Panels, Pumps, Generator and Camera
On March 31, 2014March 31, 2014By Ron KonecnyIn FoundationTags Dr. Mahabir Pun, drying house, generator, Mohare, Nangi, pump, solar panel
Report from Dr. Mahabir Pun: A group of six people from OCI Company Korea arrived on February 7, 2014 and installed 1,200W solar panel for the computer lab in Nangi and 1200 W solar panel for Paudwar school with battery back up. They also had provided 2,200W solar panel for the water pump in Mohare Community Lodge. On February 10, we had a group of 14 university students and one professor from the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. They were members of Engineers Without Borders. It was good opportunity for them to learn things from real situation and good support...
Dr. Mahabir Pun Develops Advanced Technology to Track Trekkers
Have you ever spent sleepless nights wondering if your loved one was safe while trekking in a remote region of the world? Families can thank the famed Magsaysay Award winner from Nepal, Dr. Mahabir Pun, for his innovative technology which offers trekkers and their families peace of mind. Mahabir Pun has developed a tracking device called E-tag (Entity Tag) and known as a Tourist Tracking System (TTS). The device is being tested in the Ghandruk-Ghodepani area of the Annapurna foot trail in Nepal. Funded by the Asia-Pacific Tele Community in Bangkok, Thailand the tags are designed to locate lost trekkers. Mahabir was voted...