Sabine's blog

Namasté,

I am just back from Belgium and I went to Sarangkot this week to have a look at the progress of the new building of the Day care centre.
In the beginning of July they started to make the foundation. This means they make pillars from steel and put stones around the end and make it fit together with cement.
Only after this they will start with the walls! So this is a different way of working then in the west.

We started demolishing the building of the Day care center on the 24th of May 2009! In a week time, the teachers helped to put all the materials to another little building below the school, where they will give classes to the students.

This community building has only 2 little rooms, which is too less for 56 kids, so that’s why QOLN ordered to make a shelter (with the old stones and the tin roof from the old building) to teach.

Here is an update on the last progress of the building extension of our day care center. QOLN organized several meetings in Sarangkot, to discuss following:

We wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2066 !!!

The Nepalese New year took place on the 14th of April 2009. We are happy to choose this moment to give you information about our projects of QOLN.

Namasté!

I just want to inform you that the preparations for the extension of our Day care center started on Sunday the 5th of April. QOLN organized a meeting to discuss the map and plans of the architect.

Dear Sponsors,

I would like to inform you that the works to extend the day care centre (DCC) will start soon. The extension had a big delay due to the lack of water. The reason is that we had a lot of landslides in August 2007, which destroyed about 600 meters of pipelines. QOLN had the intention to repair the pipes already in 2008, but the villagers were not there to cooperate. Also QOLN had to search for a new fund of 6.000 euro to repair the pipes and this was finally donated by a Belgian organization at the end of 2008.

Namasté !

We would like to give you some information about our projects and also give our thanks to so many who supported us in the last half year.

Situation in Nepal

For now, we have about 6 hours of electricity in the daytime! From the next weeks, the newspaper informed we will have 8 hours to divide in day and night!!! To go with just like it is, is the only thing we can do.

Dear friends,

I’m preparing this newsletter already for 3 weeks. From the beginning of September we have more then 31 hours of powercuts, which makes working on the computer very difficult. We also have lots of rains and thunder and lightening, which makes it sometimes impossible.

For once this newsletter will be only in English.

Our yearly visit to Belgium was exciting and fun, enjoying fully with meeting family and friends, relaxing little holidays, but also fruitfully in meeting people who support our projects.