The Big Picture: NAFA completed the rebuild or substantial repair of fifty-four earthquake resistant classrooms at eight schools, thirty-five classrooms in four Dhading district schools: Kutal, Ladap, Richet and Tawal and nineteen classrooms in the remote, eastern Nepal villages of Kophu, Patle, Shyama and Dhupisurke. Patle school 4 classroom block In [...]
Making a difference to people's lives in Nepal This year's Nepalese New Year Fundraising event on the 5th May 2018 was a huge success. The hall at Lourdes Hill College was buzzing with supporters and volunteer workers. Luya Music provided the early evening musical entertainment and the delicious food was cooked by the Tibetan Kitchen [...]
The Big Picture: Rebuild completed in many villages and half way to completion in others! NAFA’s focus in 2017 continued to be helping remote villages rebuild infrastructure destroyed by the devastating earthquakes that struck Nepal in April and May 2015. After allocating $400,000 in 2016 towards the rebuild, NAFA allocated another $191,505 towards the second [...]
COMMITTEE MEMBER Rick Parkes aged 74 is walking 817 km on CAMINO NORTE to raise funds for Children in Tawal Nepal for education and health Tawal villagers pouring a concrete slab on classrooms by hand that took 13 hours, all volunteers. This is their dedication after the earthquake to educate their children [...]
In mid 2018 NAFA hopes to complete the significant rebuilding commitments it made after the devastating earthquakes in April and May 2015. It will be a big achievement for a small, volunteer run NGO - an achievement of which we can be collectively very proud. Butterfly child care centre But what happens then? [...]
Our annual “Nepal in the Park” fundraiser was held on 20th August at the JC Slaughter Picnic Grounds, Mt Coot-tha. Nepalese dancing “Base camp” was decorated with colourful prayer flags and marquees, and the sublime setting was enhanced by perfect weather which also provided ideal conditions for the 119 people who signed up [...]
NAFA has allocated nearly $140,000 to rebuild thirteen classrooms in four villages (Tawal, Kutal, Ladap and Richet) when roads open after the monsoon season. Tawal school 3 large classrooms finished July 31 2017 This allocation for the second phase of the school rebuild program will complete NAFA’s commitments made after the April and [...]
In the past nine months NAFA has helped nine remote villages across five districts in Nepal rebuild or substantially repair their schools after the devastating earthquakes in April and May 2015. Recently constructed Shyama classrooms The first phase of the rebuild is completed. We are very proud of local builders’ achievements under very [...]
The Big Picture: Rebuild is well and truly underway! Rod and Kancha in Tawal NAFA’s focus in 2016 was helping remote villages rebuild infrastructure destroyed by the devastating earthquakes that struck Nepal in April and May 2015, After allocating nearly $100,000 in 2015 to NAFA’s initial responses (provision of medical supplies, roofing tin, [...]
Sadit with host family Post the earthquake of April 2015, I was more exposed to the humanitarian role that a civil engineer can play in reconstruction of the society. My will to help the earthquake affected areas recover and the enthusiasm to be with needy people were my main motivation during the projects [...]
Jirikarka 2014 The knitting program began in 1998 when Ross and Brenda identified a need. They had travelled to Nepal 5 times by then and been to many village areas and seen how poor the children were in the farming communities. Many of these children had only one change of clothes, their parents [...]
Chicken shed destroyed Six months after the devastation of the Gorkha earthquake, Tawal area villagers were still coming to terms with the massive loss of property and sadly, the loss of 72 loved ones. All 1,223 houses, schools, and other valuable infrastructure in the area were destroyed. The three buildings owned by [...]