Archive for June 2011

Cultural day and fundraising walk

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Bring the family and enjoy a fun day out and you’ll be helping Nepal Australia Friendship Association (NAFA) build a children’s nursery in a remote village in Nepal.

Sunday 11 September 2011

Simpson Falls picnic ground, Mt Coot-tha off Sir Samuel Griffith Drive

Fundraising Walk starts at 9am – Adults $10, Child $5, Family $20

You can join in an easy 90 minute hike in the beautiful Mt Coot-tha bush.

Learn Nepali dancing

Free cultural activities from 11am to 1pm

If you don’t wish to join in the walk you can still enjoy

meeting Brisbane’s Nepali community,
scrumptious Nepali food,
Nepali handicraft stalls,
Nepali dance and cooking lessons,
massages, games for the children and plenty of prizes.

: Children enjoying pinata

Getting there: vehicle parking at Simpson Falls picnic ground

OR bus no 375 from the city to the last stop (the Bardon stop) then walk via Simpsons Road 600m to the end of Simpson Falls Road. Please join us on the day!

Link to more information, registration and sponsorship forms

Remote Area Eye Clinics

June 13, 2011 | Author NAFA

Location: Remote areas in Nepal

Date: 1990 ongoing

Partner: the JOY Foundation

Objective: To sponsor one remote eye screening and cataract surgery eye clinic per year, conducted by the Tilganga Eye Centre based in Kathmandu.

Outcomes: From 1990 to 2008, NAFA has funded 17 eye clinics either by full or co-sponsorship, a total cost of $60,000. Approximately 2,850 people have had their sight restored free of charge.

Details: The Tilganga Eye Centre provides opthamalogical services to Nepali people and operates an Intra Ocular Lens (IOL) labratory, for the manufacture of lenses for implants during cataract surgery. Tilganga Eye Centre conducts numerous remote area eye clinics free of charge in inaccessible areas where people generally do not have access to medical services.
The remote area medical team members are volunteers and surgery and other eye care is provided free of charge. However, each remote clinic costs over $6,000 due to food provided to patients, transport, and medical equipment costs. Usually a school building is set up as a temporary ‘hospital’ and in most clinics over 1,000 people are screened; while 250 to 300 are operated on for removal of cataracts and replacement with lenses.

Appeal: Help NAFA continue to give the gift of eyesight back to the people in remote villages by donating to this project. See our donations page

Prisoners Assistance Nepal (PA Nepal)

June 13, 2011 | Author NAFA

Location: Nayabazar (Kathmandu) and Sankhu (one hour from Kathmandu)

Date: December 2003 ongoing.

Objectives:

To support the education of approximately 36 children at Nayabazar and Sankhu

Outcomes: Support provided to children through provision of education, food and medicine, and through conducting craft activities and sewing training.

Details: PA Nepal provides the following services: residential care for approximately 80 children who would otherwise be in prison with a convicted parent; education and skills training for prisoners; support for women released from prison; support for children and the mentally ill in prison; and advocacy on behalf of prisoners and their families.

PA Nepal is one of NAFA’s core projects. In addition to the outcomes listed above, NAFA has provided the major funding for building the children’s home at Sankhu and has raised funds for a separate home for older boys on the property at Sankhu. NAFA also involves older children at PA Nepal in NAFA’s FEAT program.

Top: PA Nepal director, Indira Rana Magar with some of the children from the home 2005

Centre: Making garlands 2010

Bottom: Children at the Sankhu home 2011