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Autumn Newsletter 2020 1 | Page NEWSLETTER — AUTUMN 2020 Register No.: 209/071/072 www.dolpotomorrow.org NEWSLETTER—AUTUMN 2020 November 19, 2020 Greetings from Chharka-Bhot! Tashi Delek! Dear friends of Chharka Bhot and Chharka-Bhot Basic School, we hope you are all well and staying safe. Due to lack of access to internet, we were not able to provide you regular updates on Chharka School, our other projects and situations in Dolpo. Hence, we planned to release this newsletter containing general updates of our projects in 2020 and short review on summer session of Chharka School and situations in Dolpo, so far. We hope you will enjoy reading it and will find out our project for Chharka School and Chharka Bhot Village is worthy of your help. And above all we would like to let you know that every single dollar or rupees of your help makes a true difference in this remote region secluded in the mountains of Himalaya. CHHARKA SCHOOL IN SESSION In despite of travel restriction of nationwide COVID lockdown, the staff team of Chharka School managed to travel back to Chharka in May and was able to open the school—just one month later than normal. Students during the annual examination (October 25, 2020) 2 | Page NEWSLETTER — AUTUMN 2020 Being an extremely remote and isolated village, Chharka-Bhot was not much influenced by the global devastation of COVID-19 which allowed us to operate the school smoothly as usual without any obstacles throughout the whole summer. Due to the travel restrictions, the government teachers and our project teachers hired from outside Dolpo, including the academic supervisor hired with funding of Save Tibet, Austria (www.tibet.at), could not attend the session this year. Moreover, months of delay has happened with the educational materials for the session bought from Kathmandu. Nevertheless, using materials from previous stock and thanks to the persistent dedication of our local project teachers, funded by our primary sponsor I.C.D.F. (www.icdfdn.org), we were able to run the school efficiently throughout the whole summer. Teacher Tse-Wangmo and two of grade six students (August 14 2020) To make the session efficient and productive as usual, in addition to our three local teachers, we hired two temporary teachers among the educated youths from Chharka, using the donations collected by Doreen Kindermann and Johanna Mayer Dipauli, elaborated in end of this newsletter. The summer session ended on 30th October and the annual examination of the academic year 2020 was held at the end of the session. An autumnal vacation of 10 days was observed by the students from 1st to 10th of November and the school was resumed on 11th November for the two months of winter session. Junior students during morning assembly (photo of winter session 2019) (November 18, 2019) 3 | Page NEWSLETTER — AUTUMN 2020 CHHARKA SCHOOL BOARDINGHOUSE, KTHMANDU As planned in early of this year, with the basic financial support of Bamboos Schule e.V. (www.die- bambusschule.de) the students of grade six were supposed to go the Kathmandu this winter for their further education. But to avoid risk of COVID-19 that is extremely active currently in the major cities of in Nepal, parents and the school committee mutually decided to keep the students for one more year in the village school. They will continuously read grade 7 in Chharka School next year and will join the Kathmandu hostel at the end of the session which will be in the autumn of 2021, next year. The Village of Chharka Bhot, Dolpo (September 26, 2020) SITUATIONS IN CHHARKA-BHOT AND DOLPO During this global hard time of covid-19 pandemic, thanks to the geographical remoteness of the region, Dolpo, somehow remained unaffected by the virus so far except a slight food shortage caused by the long duration nationwide lockdown. Since Nepal could not contain the spread of COVID-19, Dolpo-Tibet border market, the only source of food supplies for the people of Dolpo, that opens once a year got canceled this year which caused a slight shortage of subsistence and foods. Nevertheless, no signs and symptoms of COVID- 19 has shown in the region and life seemed quite normal to date. The best part is that living outside the range of globalization, very few people are aware about what is going in the world outside their village currently and very few people seems worried; live so far in a way is normal, happy and peaceful. 4 | Page NEWSLETTER — AUTUMN 2020 First snow fall of the winter in Dolpo/ The valley of Tinje, Dolpo (November 16, 2020) By now, the winter is entering the region and we had the first snow fall on 16 November, recently. Locals have finished harvesting the autumnal crops and collected sufficient foods, grasses and fire woods for the freezing months of winter that is entering the region. Hopefully, this winter may be the best winter ever because the snow will not only block routes for travelers it will also keep the region far away from the reach of COVID-19 for a duration of several months. UPDATES ON OTHER PROJECTS OF 2020 PROJECTS FOR CHHARKA SCHOOL SPONSORS: STATUS 1 Construction of 3 Rooms Passive Solar House Chay Ya/ Bamboos Schule Active 2 Construction of 4 Rooms Passive Solar House Nepalhilfe Beilngriese e.V. Active 3 School Compound Wall Bamboos Schule/Chay Ya Accomplished 4 Drainage of School Ground Lagoon Bamboos Schule/Chay Ya Postponed to 2021 5 Drainage for the Entire School Building Roofs Bamboos Schule/ Chay Ya Active 6 Computers for School Library Bamboos Schule/Chay Ya Accomplished 7 School Wash House and Hand Washing Station Bamboos Schule/Chay Ya Active 8 School Furniture Bamboo Schule/Chay Ya Accomplished 9 Bunk Beds for Hostel Students Michelle Bostick Fundraising Phase PROJECTS FOR CHHARKA VILLAGE 1. Chharka-Bhot Water Supply Project Chay Ya Nepal/Chay Ya Active Switzerland/Dany Gerhig/ Chharka-Tangshong RM 2. Providing Nursing Training to a young woman Active/Looking for from Chharka to become a future nurse Bamboos Schule/Chay Ya candidates 5 | Page NEWSLETTER — AUTUMN 2020 3. Hiring a Nurse for the Interim Period Bamboo Schule/Chay Ya Postponed to working session 2021 Delay with Transportation of Project Materials Months of delay has happened with the transportation of the project materials causing certain delay with most of the projects. The materials of the above projects (including the Water Supply Project funded by Chay Ya Switzerland www.chay-ya.org, Chay Ya Nepal, and Dany Gerhig, and the two blocks of Passice Solar House School Building Construction Projects one from Nepalhilfe Beilngriese e.V. www.nepalhilfe-beilngries.de and the other from Chay Ya and Bamboos Schule www.die-bambusschule.de ) transported from Kathmandu in June and early of July got stuck in Pokhara during the whole months of summer due to the destruction of road in between Mustang and Pokhara caused by monsoon rain and also because of the long duration of lockdown travel restriction that lasted throughout the whole summer. The materials reached the village of Sangtha, Mustang only in late October. When the materials reach Mustang, it was already the time for the Dashain Festival. The labours working in mustang and Dolpo have already headed back home for the festival and we could not find labours to carry the materials from Sangtha to Chharka across the mighty Druche pass. At the same time, for the villager of Chharka, the busy days of crops harvesting and collecting grasses and woods for the winter months has already started. Hence, we could neither get help from the villagers to fetch the materials from Sangtha to Chharka. Building materials and water project materials in the village of Sangtha, Mustang at the foot of mighty Druche Pass (October 11, 2020) 6 | Page NEWSLETTER — AUTUMN 2020 Caravan of yaks carrying project materials and food supplies, at the foot of Druche Pass (October 12, 2020) Merely the materials that are portable for carrying animals were transported to Chharka. The major parts of the materials were kept safely in Snagtha in their community hall and will be carried by men to Chharka in the early spring of next year. Update of Project Works in The Village Collecting locally available materials for the above “active” projects has been doing in the village to date. • 100 + piles of stones for the construction of passive solar houses and school washhouse are already collected at the respective construction site of the school. • Site clearance and ground excavation works for the building construction projects are already done. • Collecting sand and gravels for the RCC works of the building construction projects and the water supply projects are being done currently. A team of villagers collecting stones for the school building construction projects (August 13, 2020) 7 | Page NEWSLETTER — AUTUMN 2020 Purchase of Wooden Materials from Tibet The wooden materials like timbers and planks for the building construction projects were planned to buy from the borderland of Tibet as it is easier to transport to Chharka. But since Nepal could not contain the spread of convid-19 and the number of infected people kept increasing throughout the whole summer to date, the Dolpo-Tibet border market did not open this year and restriction at the Tibet-Nepal border was maintained persistently. As a result, we couldn’t get a chance to purchase the wooden materials Maryum Dolpo-Tibet border market, Tibet (August 19, 2018) from Tibet until now. The wooden materials should not be delayed further than the month of May next year to realize the accomplishment of the projects in planned time frame. Thus, coordination with the borderland people of Tibet for the purchase of the wooden materials will be carried out with highest priority throughout the following winter.
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