नयाँ बर्ष,
तिमीलाई के भनु,
भन्नु पनि छैन कि जस्तो लाग्दैछ .
बसन्तहरु सँग फक्रिएर,
तिमी संगै रमे, शुभकामना साटे,
बार र रेस्तुरन्टमा मर्किदै, मचिदै,
केही होस्मा, केही बेहोसिमा शुभकामना साटे ।
कहिले पात्मा लेखे, कहिले हात्मा,
कहिले ईमेलमा त कहिले सेतो सेतो कागज्मा ।
मन्दिरहरु धाये, पार्कहरु छिरे,
बहना खोजी खोजी शुभकामना दिये .
अङ्रेजिमा दिएछु, नेपाली अनी के के,
शुभकामना दिन भएछु पो के के ।
तर आज
शुभकामना मेरो शुभकामना,
अर्थहिन लगेको छ .
मेरो शुभकामना बेचिएको छ .
मेरो सुभ्कामना बिष्णुमती संगै बगेको छ
खै कती बग्नु पर्ने हो,
खै कती प्रमाण खोज्नु पर्ने हो,
खै शर्मा नायधिश इजलाश्मा के भन्ने हुन,
सन्कोचहरुको बिचमा, अन्तर्घतको बिचमा,
मेरो सस्तो सुभ्कामना,
मसितै छ, मसितै सुरछित पनि,
म आँफै शुभकामना दिएरहेको छु
२०७१ शुभ रहओस ।
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Assembly of District Development Council (DDC): Context, Challenges and A Way Forward
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| 21 Assembly, DDC Jumla |
Jumla’s overview:
District
Development Council (DDC), Jumla conducted its 21th assembly on 13 March 2014
in its premises where four constituent assembly (CA) members, chair of Karnali
Development Commission, representatives of the government officials, political
parties, village council, I/NGOs, media, women’s network, citizens were
gathered. It was looked like a festival and the encouraging mass than International
Women’s Day 2014, just five days before. During 2069/2070 (2013/2014), DDC
spent the total Nrs 1, 88, 96,60,000 ($1889600). It constituted of DDC’s sole
implementation Nrs 41, 07, 81,000, sectoral expenses Nrs 1,09,92,48000 and I/NGO’s
contribution Nrs 37,96,31,000. An individual of Jumla secured Nrs 18,896 (the
total population 100,000) and it was only 29 % of the expenses against plan.
Jumla
is the zonal headquarter of the Karnali which characterized as the most remote,
conflict affected, poor region in Nepal. However, Jumla is the most developed
and accessible district than other districts (Kalikot, Mugu, Humla, Dolpa) in
Karnali. Thus, it is a choice district of all development actors, government
personnel and others. After Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) 2006, government
and external partners put Karnali as a priority region for poverty alleviation
and development. Thus, the volume of the budget is increasing and various forms
of development activities are on progress such as suspension bridges,
Surkhet-Jumla road, micro irrigation plants, gender, social inclusion and
empowerment of women, dalit and marginalized communities.
At the
meantime, Jumla has many distinguished features. The Sinja valley is popular
for the origin of the Nepali language as well as place for Nepali civilization.
Even today the ancient temples and royal palace can be found. Likewise, it has
very popular religious places and temples such as Chandanath,Pandav gupha,
Mahat etc. Jumla has few hot springs where as only Tatopani hot spring is in
use and is in public attention. Jumla is the main entrance to hike Rara lake
and Patrashi mountain. It is globally recognized for a place where paddy rice
cultivated in the highest altitude. It is also hub for various aromatic and
non-aromatic herbs, vegetables, fruits. Many culture, herbs, flora and fauna are
yet to explore. Though the few outstanding and historical actions are also
implanted unintentionally such as Dor Bhahadur Bista, a first anthropologist
and sociologist in Nepal, founded a Karnali Institute in Chaudabis, Dillichaur.
Likewise, in order to honor and commemorate people who died during 10 years
Maoist insurgency in Jumla, a Miteri Shanti Batika in Bohoragaun, Katikswami is
under construction. Further, the Karnali Institute for Health Academy, Jumla
and Agriculture research centers in Chhumchaur and Guthichaur are franchise the
importance of Jumla by many ways in national economy and development.
In
this scenario, the expectation of people of Jumla is increasing dramatically. Meantime,
the national policy discourse is also pushed to enact at micro to macro level
of development in Jumla. It means, people and policy are seeking tangible
results against investment from various levels and sectors. The result is more
crucial to fill the gaps of about 300 year’s long deprivation, depression and
domination of the state in a way and the other way around. It is also more
valuable to build culture of peace at large. Despite all good initiatives
forwarded by the DDC, the report and presentation is similar as 2001, 13 years
back in Jumla. DDC report presented data on input instead of the results and
its quality. The report piercing sharply to whom are well known about the
ground realities. For instance, here, few cases shared from the grass root to
validate the gaps in saying and doing.
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| Sinja Valley, Jumla |
The real stories from ground:
Agriculture: the limited cultivated land in headquarter is increasingly
occupied by cemented house in disorganized manner. The market is occupied by
grains, vegetables and fruits that are imported from the India. The land which
is outside of the Surkhet-Jumla road and headquarter are remaining empty,
farmers are avoiding to use it due to dependency on donors, migration, no
modernization on agriculture, no market etc.
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| Jumla Bazar |
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| Carpet enterprises owned by Chandra Bdr Rawal, Tatopani |
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| Raw wool of Sheep in Jumla |
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| Grade 3 students were here due to not having class room in Gogibada, Kudari |
Health: a 21
years old woman admitted in hospital for treatment of severe malnutrition of 10
months boy and she has 4 months pregnancy from Botamalika, Jumla (INF, Jumla,
March 2014). District health office sanctioned two Auxiliary Nurse Midwives
(ANM) in Sannigaun. However, both of them are living in headquarter and
attained only 3 days in a month (AWON, December 2013). The birthing center
should be served 24/7 hours service for the maternal and child health as policy
but no one taking care of it in terms of taking corrective actions. The
pneumonia, diarrhea and malnutrition are the key killer diseases for children.
Social Evils and practices: even the health personnel, school teachers are practicing
Chhaupadi in headquarter of the district. Likewise, women are working 18 hours
a day. In many villages specially from Sinja valley, men are not at home e.g.
only 3 senior men are at village in out of 89 households in Kadagaun,
Sannigaun, Jumla (AWON, December 2013).Even today the early marriage is
prevalent (AWON, March 2014).
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| Chhaupadi in Bohoragaun, |
WASH: the 23 villages are promulgated as ODF (Open Field
Defecation) free villages. Unfortunately; villages are occupied with open
defecation observed in Kudari, Sannigaun. There are no toilets, if yes not used
or no water or very congested and dirty too. The rate of absenteeism of
adolescent girls is increasing due to not having toilets and water supply in
school.
In
addition from above mentioned cases/stories, the appearance of that day; the
people in stage and in ground as audience is enough to understand the reality
of 21 years assembly of DDC in Jumla. The number of women and quality of their
presence is enough to understand the gender equality, women’s right and
development at large.
Few Questions to assess the results of DDC’s
budget/performance:
In
order to assess the impact of such over flooded of budget and programs,
hundreds of questions yet to answered by the DDC and concerned stakeholders. The following questions are the representative
questions only.
1. How much grant is transferred at the name of women, dalit,
disable at village level and what is the impact of it?
2. What is the impact of district education office which is
being implementing its strategy since last 2 years? How many schools are
identified best schools and why? How many schools gave sanctioned teachers and
classroom as number of grades?......
3. Are the planned activities relevant with community and
people? If yes, what is the impact yet?
4. How many women enjoyed their rights as CEDAW article 14 ?
5. What is the percentage of women in local peace committees?
6. What is the status of the women within political parties e.g.
how many political leaders aware about their manifesto?
7. How many GBV survivors women get prompt response from one
stop crisis center?
8. How many women/household do abolish the Chhaupadi practice
this year?
9. What is response of police while seek support of police?
10. How many men give up to go to migration?
11. What is the loss from the load shedding?
12. Which are the best practices of sustainability?
13. Where is the analysis of the efficiency and effectiveness?
Reasons and Challenges;
To
answer the above mentioned questions and to explore the underlying causes of
having such devastating situation, there are various controlled and un-controlled
factors. Here, few reasons and challenges explained for sensing the reality.
1.
Poor mind set: Money, geographic difficult are not problem
indeed. The positive feeling and pro activeness merely absence among the
employees. They want to work in comfort zone and promoting corrupt culture. In
other hand, the citizens are also fully occupied with dependency culture. The
dialogue, interaction or discussions starts, `we are poor, government/NGOs are
not taking care of us’. Very few people are ready to work by and for themselves.
2. Lack of vision and
commitment: in Jumla, each
village council has periodic plan and these plans are accumulated at district
level. Some of villagers do not know the real needs due to lack of knowledge
and exposure. Rest of them know and has have resources so far for
implementation. Unfortunately, the plans are not changes in to the actions. For
instance, hot spring,Tatopani is a popular hot spring in Karnali. It is full
with dirt, bad smell and merely zero hospitality among the members and
management committees. Many things can be done without money or little money
but people are feeling peace and enjoying a lot by pointing to the government
and limitation of the fund.
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| Hotspring at Tatopani village |
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| The dirt in hotspring, at Tatopani |
3. Synergy among
stakeholders: the government heads
passing the balls from here to there at the name of system. Most of them are
love to work in comfort zones, within the stereotyped system and policies.
There are several examples to prove it e.g. ahead of Skills Development office,
has been working in Jumla since last three years. He knows that the post
training support mechanism is the key factor to continue the skills as
practiced in training. He neither find a way by collaborating with like minded
organizations nor manage internally. Likewise, the small cottage industry has
the same experience but lack of coordination and collaboration to generate
synergy and sustainability.
4. Lack of
accountability: the prolonged absence
of the sanctioned post in institutions and no one pay attention to correct it.
Sometimes it is open secrete among the organization head, they just ignored. Even
the government personnel do not like to contribute if there is no incentives or
daily allowances. Likewise, the political leaders are disperse and no common vision,
planning and commitment beyond their political boundaries.
5. Mentoring and
Monitoring: Usually, the mentoring and monitoring is for the sake of
formality. Even the central level mentoring and monitoring is very traditional
manner and confined in papers and near by areas from the headquarter. Even the
DDC is failed to do it. The village council is also a synonym of the conflict.
The huge amount of money is delegated for the empowerment and development of
the villages. Unfortunately, village council failed to prioritize the urgent
concerns and come up with 100 plans which is not possible to work out.
6. Absence of elected
bodies at local level: The entire
resources are governed by the government bodies who are not necessary be from
local, expert in local knowledge and skills, and not for the long term. The
local election was held in 1997 thus political parties are consulted for
planning and implementation. Unfortunately, lack of knowledge and skills among
the political parties/leaders and their dominant nature for everywhere, the
development is really affected badly. The corruption and mis-management of fund
is largely observed everywhere.
7. Population Vs
Human Rights: The total population
is low compare to the geography (100000 DDC Profile, 2013). About 5% households
are really rich by many ways. But rest of the population is struggling so much,
living in deep depression, ignorance, extreme poverty, and so many other
deprivations which is crucial for survival as human being. It has been talked
several times so don’t like to repeat the same again. In this scenario, working
in Jumla/Karnai is seems very time consuming, expensive and tedious too. In
this connection, where is human right of low population? Where is the state for
them? Where is the basic human rights of them? Where is the investment since
300 years back? Working in Jumla is often become a debate in Nepali politics
and policy discourse. One school of people considered that working in Jumla is a
loss of resources and another schools of thought claiming their right even
asking for the compensation because it is considered a violation of human
rights by many ways.
Way forward:
As
shared above, the funding and the geographical difficult are not challenges,
they are the opportunities in the other way around and it is only a mind set of
people, institutions and all. This article doesn’t present the way forward as a
form of each activities and time frame because it is only a plan, need something
different beyond that as mentioned below;
1.
Establishing common goal and commitments: The civil servants are always blaming to political leaders
and political leaders always pointing towards the civil servants. In Nepal,
both parties; civil servants and political leaders enjoy the powers during the conflict
and post conflict period from 1997-till date. Both systems don’t show the real impact
in the development and good governance. In local and national level, the
corruption is shooting up, the development indicators are putting off such as
women empowerment, poverty indices, malnutrition etc.The experience from the monarchy to federal democratic
context, none of the actors have vision towards their organizational journey.
Usually, their positions and powers are floating over the temporary thoughts,
emotional issues and personal interest at large. Therefore, the leaders; civil
servant, political parties should sit together at least 3 days and develop a
common understanding on goals and strategies where any new comers obey and
function under same frame. This is real way to address the issue of Jumla and
Karnali instead of gossip. The all leaders should speak, stand beyond the
boundary of comfort, interest of an individual. In democracy, each should
posses the right of choice, but shouldn’t turbulent the common goal at all.
There should be common ways forward on gender equality and women empowerment, education,
climate change and environment, health and so on.
2.
Proven model from own self: Nowadays, leaders are losing their followers because of lack
of honesty and commitment on their saying since long. They are good in saying
always e.g. LDO drank and verbally abuse woman and two days after gave speech
on women’s rights. That kinds of examples found everywhere specially so called
leaders e.g. a women leader talking about the women’s right but she practiced
the harmful traditional practices e.g. Chhaupadi, no red color after death of
husband. Similarly, a politician spoke over radio on fighting against
corruption and next day just asked to police to release the offender of the
violence against women. Thus, each activists, leaders, individuals and organizations
should follow the norms and policies as guided by the government. Each should
be a model rather seeking model from outside from the country and each are
potential candidate to make the things happens.
3. Solidarity among
NGOs: The level of change and
development achieved so far is the partially outcome of the NGO too. However,
the NGOs are also so much divided by politics and donors. Many NGOs also are
fall for corruption. Therefore, all NGO should sit together and make a master
for implementation. NGO’s works are under mind on the basis of volume of amount
its posses rather the quality work. NGOs are not for party politics, corruption
and conflict in the community at all.
4.
Critical
engagement in the ward level: By considering the overlapping of
social issues from micro to macro level, the engagement should focus at ward
level. The supports from one day training, Nrs 5000 for income generation activities,
Nrs 100 for scholarship etc are not work well in transformation of rural Nepal
like Jumla. The patience and consistence work required otherwise the
development work doesn’t make sense at all. Without knowing logic and exposure
on what it is, really doesn’t sense e.g. teachers are teaching on menstruation and
practicing Chhaupadi at home.
By
considering the above discussion, the DDC, Jumla would use the budget in rational way; the total
al Nrs 3,11,24,40,000 (2070/2071) where DDC will be contributed Nrs
80,83,92,000, from sectoral offices Nrs 1,64,45,15,000 and I/NGOs will be
contributed Nrs 65,95,33,000.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Colors of life:
रङहरु,
जीबन्का रङहरु,
कालो, रातो, एस्फटिक ।
पोतिये क्यान्भस्मा,
लेखिये पानाभरी,
साटिये मुटु भरी ।
फुले मरुभुमिमा,
रसाये ढुङे पहाडभरी,
रंगिये बेरङ अश्रुबुधरु पनि।
रङहरु,
जीबन्का रङहरु,
स्वोतोन्त्र पंक्षिहरु झै,
बसन्त का पलुवासंगै,
फुले, खेले पहेलै,
झरे सकिये कठै पारीजात .
रङ्हरु,
जीबन्का रङ्हरु,
बिलाये बिजुली चम्काइ सँगै .
आयु बिनाका रङहरु,
से फोकुसुन्दो जस्तो अटल,
राराको गहिरो निलो रङ
छचल्किन्छ छन्द सँगै ।
रङहरु,
जीबन्का रङहरु,
अपुरा अधुरा कती कती,
धुलोमा मिल्छन जती,
बिउझौछन् सपनिमा उती उती.
रङहरु,
जीबन्का रङहरु,
Wishing HAAPY HOLI
जीबन्का रङहरु,
कालो, रातो, एस्फटिक ।
पोतिये क्यान्भस्मा,
लेखिये पानाभरी,
साटिये मुटु भरी ।
फुले मरुभुमिमा,
रसाये ढुङे पहाडभरी,
रंगिये बेरङ अश्रुबुधरु पनि।
रङहरु,
जीबन्का रङहरु,
स्वोतोन्त्र पंक्षिहरु झै,
बसन्त का पलुवासंगै,
फुले, खेले पहेलै,
झरे सकिये कठै पारीजात .
रङ्हरु,
जीबन्का रङ्हरु,
बिलाये बिजुली चम्काइ सँगै .
आयु बिनाका रङहरु,
से फोकुसुन्दो जस्तो अटल,
राराको गहिरो निलो रङ
छचल्किन्छ छन्द सँगै ।
रङहरु,
जीबन्का रङहरु,
अपुरा अधुरा कती कती,
धुलोमा मिल्छन जती,
बिउझौछन् सपनिमा उती उती.
रङहरु,
जीबन्का रङहरु,
Wishing HAAPY HOLI
Thursday, February 27, 2014
The Way Forward against Persistent Plane Crash in Nepal
Today is the 12 the day out of 13 days mourning of people who were permanently gone due to crash of Jumla Bound Plane (Nepal Airlines) in 16 February 2014.For the sake of them, I am writing this article to draw attention at policy level.
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The Ugliest side of Engagement with Ishani Shrestha, Miss Nepal 2013
Chalise Salina: Dd
congrats hai project smile awarded bhayachha tesma action works lai ni dherai
dherai badhaii:9/27, 8:37am
Radha Paudel:
now i get it, thank you dear, my dream fulfilled
I
just entered in to the room of my hotel in Istanbul, Turkey and turned on my
laptop, I received above message from Salina Chalise. Obviously, this news made
me pleased. I got more information about it and congratulated to all my
supporters in Jumla, Kathmandu and everywhere. Indeed, we spent so much time,
efforts and money to get a single, simple smile J. People considered it as pride
of nation; it was the first time in the history of Miss Nepal and so on. Unfortunately,
I didn’t find the name of Action Works Nepal (AWON) except at the last banner of the
video. I was surprised; where is the ethics? When I watched the official video twice,
I was more than shocked, my heart shaked due to the sentence spelled by Ishani
Shrestha, Miss Nepal 2013. She said `I
was surprised me many of them do not even tooth paste and tooth brush’’. Then,
I numbed how she dared to say so? It was in Kudari which is the almost urban and
educated area. After a while, I again watched video to verify her saying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUolejzdixk I
knew more facts from the video. She said, the AMA SAMUHA (mother’s group)
formed spontaneously. Action Works Nepal www.actionworksnepal.org has been working
since long to form groups and its mobilization.
It is unhidden fact that was Action
Works Nepal was since beginning; fund raising in Kathmandu, and Jumla. In
Video, there was photo of me, Radha Paudel, as everywhere. Next day, I received
many message from Jumla and others why did Ishani Shrestha more than insult
Jumla people? What would like Action Works Nepal’s position against it because Ishani
Shrestha was Jumla due to Action Works Nepal.
I
had connected to Hidden Treasurer in March 2013 through one of my relatives for
Jumla’s Peace project but it was diverted to Miss Nepal. We had gone through
series of meetings with Ishani Shrestha, Hidden Treasurer and other related
people. Finally, we agreed to go Jumla for dental camp where the documentary would
proceed accordingly. Further, the field preparation, media mobilization and coordination
was the responsibility of AWON and the financial parts (transportation,
medicine, doctors) was the responsibility of Hidden Treasure or Miss Nepal
2013. From the AWON, that agreement
allowed transportation for two person. However, that entire project/activities
should be followed the principles and working framework of AWON. AWON considered
Ishani Shrestha, Miss Nepal, 2013 as MEET (volunteer).
One
of my friend said me, wasn’t it cliché, when I shared the plan for Jumla visit
along with Miss Nepal 2013. I debated with many friends, took challenges to
involve Miss Nepal 2013 in to the journey of Action Works Nepal. Indeed, it
was very good idea and breaking the stereotyped culture as well. As guided by
the philosophy and strategy of the Action Works Nepal, anyone can join in its
mission with positive mindset, passion and commitment e.g. Barak Obama and any
street vendor.
Though
our agreement was not signed formally but agreed and shared over emails. Based on
that, the fund raising and media mobilization was moved in Kathamndu.
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| Fund Raising in Basantpur Darbar Square |
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| Fund Raising in Basantapur Darbar Square |
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| Fund Raising in Patan Darbar Square |
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| Fund Raising in Patan Darbar Square |
The first
and second fund raising event were gone in Basantapur Darbar Square and Patan
Darbar Square respectively. I was badly disappointed by the friends who were
with Ishani. Because he asked the torn clothes which was acceptable for the
Jumla people. I stepped on stage and debated on his statement. How dare you
were, you took back your statement, it was not dignified at all. I am Jumli and
NOT acceptable at all. I also shared it with Hidden Treasurer that was
non-negotiable for AWON. That was the reason that AWON team sorted out all materials on office again.
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| AWON team sorted out clothes |
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| AWON's volunteers busy in packaging |
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| AWON's volunteers busy in packaging Add caption |
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| The dirty and torn clothes also donated |
The days moved on. Samjhana went to the Jumla a week
before to manage everything includes information about dental camp, coordination
with district stakeholders, community people, media mobilization and all. Ashes was along with Samjhana for assisting her (Unfortunately, Ashes never showed up after Jumla visit; reports, sharing, photos and all).
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| Samjhana was in Kudari with students |
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| Samjhana and Ashesh in meeting at Kudari |
Unfortunately,
flight cancelled and flue next day in May 12 2014. People were keenly waiting
to welcome us. Samjhana was really supporting
my mission by heart, everything was on hand. I was so pleased and proud of her.
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| Street Drama Perfomed by the youths |
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| Welcome by community |
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| Deuda Song by youth and women |
About
300 clients benefitted from the camp directly specially extracted of tooth.
Many people came for filling of teeth which was not possible due to timing and
funding. We also went to the Saphuli, for meeting women’s group, went to
Triveni School and Kudari High school, everywhere appreciated. The support from
local NGOs, clubs, schools, security, red cross, police were very much
appreciated.
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| Local Police Chief warmly welcomed us |
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| A senior Dr working |
We shared funny stories
specially I enjoyed about the Kathamdnu about 40 years back. We also lived in
the birthing center of Kudari. However, there were dark sides of the camp; i) Ishani
hesitated to join public for fooding as planned, ii) I was busy in taking care
of pharmacy because I was worried about follow up and I noticed there were some
errors. There was hanging the Ishani’s hospital banner in the gate, I saw it
when I went out for food. I was mad, how they put on their banner without my
permission. The Jumla’s activities; bad and good, were belonged with AWON. I
asked Kehab Dhital (AWON’s staff) to take out. No one asked about it. I didn’t
have any debate except photographer of Ishani though I didn’t feel that they
were our partners, only donors.
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| Good bye from the Kudari |
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| Traditional dance encountered at HQ |
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| Ishani and myself spoke over radio Nari Aawaj about camp and experience |
When
I arrived back to Nepal from Turkey, my collegues asked about the space and contribution
of AWON in the Jumla’s trip. Without
support of local organization, there was merely not possible. Then I wrote and called to hidden treasurer but not connected. I also wrote email with note of disagreement. The entire photo of Jumla was belonged with
AWON’s working areas so we were expecting a call for review of video. We didn’t
get anything though the Ishani’s work and video secure fifth position in World
Miss 2013, that was first time for Nepal.
We always proud what we contributed to make this happened . People often blamed to leaders and others but failed to do from their side. We forget ethics which we taught to others and expect from others.
Through this article, I sincerely apologized from my team/friends and Jumla people who were hurt from the engagement with Ishani Shrestha, Miss Nepal 2013.'
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