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Rural Assistance Nepal (RAN)

Event dates: 25th August 2011 – 31st December 2011

Maz is raising money for Rural Assistance Nepal (RAN)

My story

RAN was set up as a charity in June 2008 to help advance education and to assist in the provision of healthcare in the rural areas of Nepal. It is registered with the UK Charity Commission (Reg No 1124311) to make this work sustainable, extend what is being done and to make it easier for friends to give their support.

Since starting in 2008, as well as paying teachers' and nurses' salaries in Garimudi (Dolakha), Deusa (Solukhumbu) and Madhela (Bardiya), RAN has been assisting with a proposal for a small community hospital in Bhaliubang (Dang).

So far in 2011 alone, over twenty medical and teaching volunteers have helped at schools, healthposts and hospitals, with as many due to come during the next few months (thanks go to Expedition and Wilderness Medicine who promote RAN with their medics). RAN also finds donors who contribute books, computers, medicines and other things.

Being a small charity, trustee, Marianne Heredge is based in Nepal which means that projects, though small, can provide help where it is needed. Projects are very much influenced by personal contact with the local people, to ensure that every penny counts.

Education

  • Sponsoring salaries of teachers in schools in Deusa, Garimudi and Madhela. A teacher's salary typically costs £1,100 - £1,700/year. The primary school teacher at Madhela is sponsored by Bolton's Sacred Heart Primary School.
  • Setting up school libraries at Deusa (donation from a friend) and Garimudi (Exodus UK).
  • English pocket dictionaries: provided to class 10 students at Deusa and Garimudi secondary schools.
  • Science materials donated by volunteers to Deusa secondary school.
  • Computers for schools: 3 computers for Garimudi (Royal Mountain Travel) and another 3 to Bangeswal (Koningap and Shoestring, a Dutch tour operator.)
  • Land: an anonymous donation enabled Deusa school to buy land for extra much-needed classrooms.
  • Toilets provided to Deusa lower secondary school by Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN) and Solukhumbu's DDC on RAN's recommendation, as there were no toilets for the 400+ children there.
  • Donation of English language books from Val Mitchell (d.2010): are being shared with schools where English teachers are keen to improve their teaching of English to students.

Healthcare

  • Doctors and friends sponsor the salaries of two midwives (ANM) at Deusa sub-healthpost. A nurse's salary costs about £1,350 per annum (£113/month).
  • Dental training: an ANM at Deusa received three months training in Kathmandu.
  • Paying for medicines: supplying free medicines for poor people at Deusa sub-healthpost, HexN (UK) provide medicines every month as the government supply is not enough.

Volunteers

  • Teaching: helping teachers has a longer-term impact. Since 2008, a dozen or more volunteers have helped teach English and computing at poor state schools in Solukhumbu, Dolakha, Okaldhunga, Bardiya, Pyuthan, Helambu and Chitwan.
  • Medical volunteers: doctors, nurses and medical students help at healthposts and hospitals outside the Kathmandu Valley.

Where does RAN work?
Visit rannepal.org for links to photos of the place where RAN works. Currently RAN works with the district hospitals at Gulmi and Bajhang, the Soo-Jung community hospital in Rajpur, Doti, and Ilam Community Hospital. RAN works with healthposts at Deusa (Solukhumbu), Rawadolu (Okaldhunga), Bangeswal (Pyuthan), Madhela (Bardiya) and the Friendship Community Clinic, Megauli (Chitwan).

RAN has a teacher at the secondary school at Deusa (English), and the higher secondary schools at Garimudi (Maths and Science) and Madhela (primary). As well as these in these schools, volunteers can help at Bangeswal Higher Secondary School, Pyuthan, Rawadolu secondary school (Okaldungha), Shree Saraswoti Advanced English Medium Boarding School (Rukkum), and Chauri secondary school (Kavre).

What is needed?

Always needed of course, is money, whether to pay salaries of the teachers and nurses, for school and healthpost materials, or to help pay for medicines for the very poorest patients who come to the hospitals or healthposts that RAN supports. As RAN is small, overheads are kept to the barest minimum (other than bank charges to transfer funds to Nepal). A very small amount can make a big difference - whether this is to pay for some books or a course of medicines (£1-4), or a bit more, to pay the salary of a nurse or teacher for a month (£100-120). For example:

Books available in local bookshops in Kathmandu £1.00 - 4.00
Exercise book 30-40p
Pen 10p
Pencil 2p
Ten paracetamol painkiller tablets (in Kathmandu) 10-15p
Teacher's salary depending of qualifications and level taught per month £100.00-140.00
Nurse's salary/month £120.00
Computer (desktop including software flatscreen and UPS) £300.00
Ideas for fund-raising

EVERYCLICK - By using Everyclick as your search engine, you can earn RAN a few pennies every time you search. Visit everyclick.com and register, nominating Rural Assistance Nepal as the charity you want to raise money for. You can also make online donations using Everyclick.

GIVE AS YOU LIVE is another way to donate to Rural Assistance Nepal, whenever you purchase anything online from one of many retailers involved in the scheme - from British Gas to John Lewis, the list is very long.

Every penny counts and a little goes a long way in Nepal!

Donations can also be sent to RAN, c/o Mr George Hall, 25 Hever Gardens, Bromley, Kent, BRU1 2HU.


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