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D-1095

   Nepal - Gulmi

Disability Resource Centre

$24,000

To enable disabled persons of Nepal to live independently and with dignity through effective rehabilitation, vocational training, employment skills and provision of mobility devices.

To support the work of Ganga Rayamajhi and her registered charity located in the remote district of Gulmi, Nepal, in rehabilitating and empowering disabled persons of the Gulmi District, through programmes involving health, mobility, awareness, skills’ training and employment supported by micro–credit loans, human rights and accessibility.

Gulmi is located approximately 300km west of Kathmandu, in a remote mountainous region where there are virtually no government-funded treatment or support facilities for the disabled.

Primary Host Partner in the Project Country

Club: Dhulikhel

District: 3290

Primary Contact: Ashok Shrestha

Email: ashok.shrestha@adranepal.org

Check all projects from: [District 3290] [Dhulikhel Rotary Club] [Ashok Shrestha]

Primary International Partner Outside the Project Country

Club: Bay of Islands

District: 9910

Primary Contact: Angela Bowey

Email: angelabowey@xtra.co.nz

Check all projects from: [District 9910] [Bay of Islands Rotary Club] [Angela Bowey]

Proposed Financing

Primary Host Sponsor Rotary Club/District

Rotary Club of Dhulikhel

$500

District 3290 DDF

$100

Primary International Sponsor Rotary Club/District

Rotary Club of Bay of Islands

$3,000

District 9910 DDF

$3,000

Additional Rotary Clubs/Districts

Additional Sponsor Club

$8,367

Amount requested from the Rotary Foundation

$9,033

Total

$24,000

Status and Progress Information

Need $8,367

We are looking for a Club partner. Click here to pledge support for this project. For questions, please contact us at Admin@MatchingGrants.org
Need to raise: $8,367. Project listed for the 2008-09 Rotary Year.

We are putting together this application following the highly successful visit to New Zealand of Miss Ganga Rayamajhi, Chairperson of the Charity which will operate this project, and herself a double amputee who has risen above her disabilities by training as a nurse/physiotherapist and setting up this Gulmi Disability Resources Centre for assisting other disabled people.

<23-May-08> System Entry
Creation of project page.