tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34471499569696181782024-03-05T14:21:43.195-08:00unicef nepal ko blogunicef nepalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05034185178478473061noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447149956969618178.post-68600491550263416412016-08-19T02:25:00.004-07:002016-08-19T02:44:08.024-07:00Postcard from Gorkha<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>By Maricar Garde</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I recently visited Gorkha district in
the west of Nepal. With its hills and paddy fields, the place is serene an</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">d
picturesque. This belies the loss of lives and destruction that the community
saw only a year ago. Gorkha was the epicentre of the devastating earthquake
which struck Nepal in April 2015. More than 8,000 people died across the
country with children making up a quarter of the fatalities. Thousands lost
their houses and livelihoods.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Government of Nepal and UNICEF
launched an emergency cash transfer programme to respond to the disaster. We
are currently implementing the second round of the programme which involves
giving a universal cash grant to under-five children in 11 extremely
affected districts including Gorkha. As people rebuild their lives, we want to
help make sure that children’s needs are protected during this crucial time in
their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A mother shows the registration card of her young daughter who received UNICEF-provided cash grant in Gorkha District.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When large scale shocks happen—natural
disasters, famines or economic crises—households are often forced to cope with
the situation by reducing everyday consumption. In many cases, parents take
their children out of school with older kids going out to work to help the
family. Young girls are also at risk of early marriage or bceoming pregnant. For
example, there is evidence of </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.savethechildren.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=8rKLIXMGIpI4E&b=9241341&ct=14736265&notoc=1"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">teenage
pregnancies increasing</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> as a result of the
Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While negative coping mechanisms are seen
as temporary, their effects may bring a lifetime of consequences for children.
Poor nutrition in the early years—the first 1,000 days of lives—can lead to
stunted growth which doesn’t only affect physical growth. Stunting also affects
cognitive development which can lead to poor schooling outcomes and lower
earning potential later on in life. This has huge impacts on the economy. World
Bank estimates show that under-nutrition, in terms of lost national productivity
and economic growth, range from 2 to 3 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in some countries and up to 11 per cent of GDP in Africa and Asia each year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://unicef.org.np/blogs/2016/04/08/assessment-of-the-emergency-top-up-cash-transfer-programme-for-vulnerable-groups-in-nepal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">evidence
from the first round of the emergency cash transfer programme</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
show very high coverage rates. The independent assessment also indicates that
the cash grant was mostly used to purchase basic needs such as food, clothing,
medicine and household essentials. The cash grant was a </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjXoCcpF3mAAqqOlSLQ_quiBV0lV5uv_P"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">much
needed lifeline to vulnerable people</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
affected by the earthquake.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Back in Gorkha, the commercial centre
is buzzing with activity. I saw students in the village walking to school
despite the difficult terrain made more challenging by the monsoon rains. The
Government’s housing reconstruction grant is finally underway with 70,000 programme
beneficiaries receiving the first tranche of the payment.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The story doesn’t end here however. We
know that households will continue to face challenging situations in the next
two years as they rebuild their houses and livelihoods. With limited resources,
parents will be forced to prioritise household expenses. It is important that
children’s needs are not neglected during this period. Nepal has to build back
better, and that includes better health, nutrition and education. Building back
better hopefully also means building a brighter future for Nepal’s children.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Ms. Garde is Chief of Social Policy and Economic Analysis at UNICEF Nepal. </i></span><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Follow her on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/ricagarde" target="_blank">@ricagarde</a>. </i></span></div>
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unicef nepalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05034185178478473061noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447149956969618178.post-46999829414907361012015-09-16T21:51:00.003-07:002015-09-16T22:01:25.515-07:00Journey to Simjung: Delivering UNICEF medical tent and essential health supplies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The jou</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-no-proof: no;">rney
to Simjung is not for the faint-hearted. The Village Development Committee
(VDC) in Gorkha district, epicenter of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck
Nepal on 25 April, is accessible only by dirt roads that challenge the bravehearts
too. The sight of rocks falling along the hills scarred by frequent landslides
is quite common along the way, especially during monsoon.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-no-proof: no;">Simjung, which lies around
180 kilometres northwest of Kathmandu, was heavily affected by the earthquake,
which destroyed the village’s only health post. Since then, accessing essential
health services had been quite an issue for the villagers, especially pregnant
women and new mothers. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Karki traveled to Simjung in July with UNICEF emergency response team
delivering medical tents and essential health supplies to establish a birthing
centre there.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-no-proof: no;">Here is Mr. Karki’s account
of the unforgettable journey, which he says was “challenging both physically
and mentally.” <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“After a few kilometres from Gorkha Bazaar, the district
headquarters, the gravel road ends and the narrow dirt </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-no-proof: no;">road</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> to Simjung begins. The </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-no-proof: no;">bumpy</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> ride on the road felt like an internal
massage to my system. However, the worse was yet to come. As we reached
Chanaute, the road split. One led to our destination Simjung, while the other went
to Takumajh, another village equally devastated by the earthquake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tractor, carrying UNICEF medical tent and health supplies, crosses a landslide area on the way to Simjung Village Development Committee. which lies about 180 kilometres northwest of Kathmandu.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">The uphill road to Simjung was unnerving as it had become
muddy and slippery due to the rains. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">The wheels of the tractor, which carried
the medical tent and health supplies, got stuck in the mud many times pushing
the vehicle towards the slope. Any time this happened, the entire entourage,
aided by the locals, would push the tractor back on track.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">At one point, the motorable road ended and we started
walking with UNICEF supplies carried by a group of local porters up the steep rocky
hill with the cliffs steep enough, the locals say, to touch one’s nose. Soon a
heavy downpour started, but the team continued despite the torrential rain. We eventually
stopped at </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">Dhodeni, a tiny hamlet on the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">When we reached Simjung, the next day, a huge crowd of
earthquake-affected villagers, especially women had gathered at the village </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">chautara</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">
(local gathering place). As they approached us with the usual Nepali
hospitailty and a genuine show of gratitude on their faces, all our exhaustion
faded away. The health post staff wasted no time in setting up the medical tent
for the new birthing centre. Once the tent was erected and essential services
set up, it was not long before a line of pregnant women and new mothers began
forming outside the tent.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Simjung health post staff set up UNICEF medical tent to establish a birthing centre there. </td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It was a welcome sight for my tired eyes. Here we were at
last with the most essential supplies of medicine, equipment and a tent for the
pregnant and new mothers, who would eventually get a chance for safe
motherhood.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">A new life for the babies who will be born safely thanks
to UNICEF!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>Photos by Chandra Shekhar Karki for UNICEF</i></span></div>
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unicef nepalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05034185178478473061noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447149956969618178.post-49672160209090907582015-09-08T00:57:00.001-07:002015-09-08T00:57:52.771-07:00A new life amidst death and destruction on Nepal earthquake day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rojina Chauhan with her son Himal "Bhukampa Bahadur."</td></tr>
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In the beautiful hamlet of Nalang Patle, a remote and impoverished ward of Nalang Village Development Committee (VDC) in Dhading district, five-months-old Himal is a constant reminder that on April 25, when Nepal was struck by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, there were not only deaths and destruction, but a new life also.<br />
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Although named Himal by the family priest, he is more popularly known in his village by his nickname, ‘Bhukampa Bahadur,’ which literally means earthquake brave, the name written in the health register. Those close to him even call him ‘Bhukampey' for short.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A visitor uses his mobile phone to take Himal's photo.</td></tr>
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Himal's mother Rojina Chauhan is overjoyed whenever she has a visitor for her infant son.<br />
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“They come here every day just to see him, hoping that he brings good luck to them,” the 17-year-old said.<br />
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As the almost a minute-long deadly shaking began on April 25, Rojina was inside delivery room in Nangle health post. The staff carried her in the open grassland area, far from any collapsing building.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rojina weighs herself with and without Himal to determine his weight.</td></tr>
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The health team worked with Rojina even as they were shaken with extreme fear for their own safety as parts of the health post started crumbling down.<br />
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Fortunately, after four hours, when the strong aftershocks had subsided, they took Rojina inside and safely delivered Himal.<br />
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“I couldn’t believe that my daughter was alive and had given birth to a healthy baby boy,” said Rojina’s 35-year-old mother Maya. “I am so thankful to the health post staff.”<br />
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Rojina's family barely survives with less than USD 30 a month. Their only source of income is any farm work that Maya and her husband can find. They are landless and live in a makeshift tiny hut with one bed shared by the whole family.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rojina holds Himal outside their makeshift home while her mother watches from behind. </td></tr>
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“I worry a lot about my son’s well-being as we have a very difficult life but it gives me a lot of relief to see him safe,” said Rojina, who often talks to her son telling him not to worry as she will save him if there is another earthquake.<br />
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Since the earthquake, UNICEF has provided a medical tent to the health post in Nalang to ensure continuous delivery of essential health services in the community.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;">Rojina, with Himal, visits the local health post being operated under UNICEF-provided tent.<br /></td></tr>
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<i>Text by Naresh Newar</i><div>
<i>Photos by Kiran Panday for UNICEF</i><br /><br /></div>
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unicef nepalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05034185178478473061noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447149956969618178.post-79990986363350387092015-06-10T08:32:00.000-07:002015-06-10T08:46:59.120-07:00I will never regret my choice <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A
blog post by Indira Koirala, UNICEF Nepal Programme and Planning Officer, as
told to Mariana Palavra<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">UNICEF Nepal Programme and Planning Officer Indira Koirala speaks with an earthquake-affected family who recently received UNICEF-provided aid supplies, distributed by partner organization Plan, in Dolakha District, Nepal on May 26 2015. © UNICEF Nepal/2015/BSokol</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On April 25, when the 7.8 earthquake
struck Nepal, I had just stepped down from a domestic flight at Kathmandu Airport
along with five other UNICEF colleagues. As I was calling UNDSS to inform them
that we had arrived from our field mission, I didn’t understand what was going
on until someone screamed ‘earthquake’, and two passengers fell from the
plane’s ladder. When I looked at the runway, I could clearly see the wavy
movement of the earth. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span>
<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">While others were trying to call their
family, my first instinct was to report to the UNICEF warden system that I was
safe and sound. For half an hour, all 72 passengers held on to each other, more
so when we felt an aftershock. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">An hour later I was out at the airport’s
parking lot. Everyone else had rushed to go home and find their family’s
whereabouts. I was left alone. I am single, I live alone and I don’t have any
family. Fortunately, amidst the chaos, a taxi driver saw I was ‘lost’ and agreed
to take me home.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi05i6IJ5LTEEvc1RkbSsWYlAhwioTSdVZOe6OCN7Upy684-BEICQ6NRy6f1EG-ZlKk6wkOojnOas5EA2iRxMfVVpPmqhJ2riqVfYqVevljENDw4AV_FRvN9ZLBA-9RyohslV4jjTeYi5I/s1600/20150526-Nep_DSC7153_web.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi05i6IJ5LTEEvc1RkbSsWYlAhwioTSdVZOe6OCN7Upy684-BEICQ6NRy6f1EG-ZlKk6wkOojnOas5EA2iRxMfVVpPmqhJ2riqVfYqVevljENDw4AV_FRvN9ZLBA-9RyohslV4jjTeYi5I/s400/20150526-Nep_DSC7153_web.jpg" width="400" /></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">For some strange reason, I don’t get very scared
by earthquakes. So, as soon as I arrived home, I went to my third floor
apartment and made myself a cup of tea and started to watch TV. A couple hours
later, my neighbours urged me to get out of the house for security reasons. I
guess I was a bit lost. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The first two nights I slept outside but I
would go up to the apartment to cook and have my tea. Two days after the
earthquake, I felt strong enough to walk one hour to the UNICEF office. It was
such a great relief, I felt I was among a supportive family. I regretted that I
hadn’t gone to work sooner. I just wanted to stay at the office and work more
and more. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On 9 May, I volunteered to be a district emergency
coordinator and two days later I left for Dolakha district, east of Kathmandu. En
route our vehicle was badly hit by another vehicle. As a result my journey to
Dolakha had to be postponed by a day. The next day, on May 12, we arrived in Charikot,
the district headquarters of Dolakha, our final destination. Around 1 pm, we
were following another UNICEF car with two colleagues with whom I was going to
attend a Child Protection sub cluster meeting. We were driving down a narrow dusty
road when suddenly the earth started shaking - we were experiencing a second
earthquake - a 7.3. Our driver had to struggle to stop the car that seemed to
veer toward the cliff side of the road. In this panic-stricken moment, I saw in
front of us a stone house collapsing over the road. I was almost sure it had hit
the other UNICEF car that was ahead of us. Similarly, I later learnt that our
colleagues in the car had feared the same fate for us. It wasn’t until some
hours later that we found out that none of us was hurt or had been directly
caught by the earthquake. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I spent those first hours in a camp with families
already displaced by the first earthquake. I looked around me and I saw families
in extremely difficult living conditions, I saw some children with disability living
without shelter. My mind was occupied with these sad thoughts when I saw an
11-year-old child who did not seem to be scared. ‘If this child living in these
conditions is not afraid, why am I panicking?’ I thought. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The landscape after the second earthquake -
whose epicentre was only 15 kilometres away from Charikot - was devastating. The
hills all around were scarred with landslides, and homes had been turned to
rubble. However, not for a second did I regret having volunteered for this position.
Both after the car accident and the second earthquake, I was asked by my
colleagues if I wanted to go back to Kathmandu. Both times I said no. I was not
injured, I was not dead, so I had no reason to go back. Maybe the fact that I am
not so scared of earthquakes and I often stay calm explains why I made this
choice. In fact, despite the giant challenges, I have enjoyed working here. I
suppose being extremely busy has helped me to keep going until now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My mission in Dolakha is about to finish
and I have to go back to my post in Kathmandu. In fact, while all my
colleagues, the other 11 district emergency coordinators were already back in Kathmandu.
I stayed on behind as I had tons of work to do. I will stay here until the last
possible minute. It’s a kind of responsibility. I will never regret my choice. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">NOTE:
Indira resumed her regular duties in UNICEF Nepal Country Office in Kathmandu
on 28 May 2015. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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unicef nepalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05034185178478473061noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447149956969618178.post-25197555578087385922015-06-03T10:35:00.001-07:002015-06-03T10:37:40.456-07:00... and this is just one of the schools...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>These are pictures from 29th May, two days before the government's declared date for children in the earthquake impacted districts to go Back to School. The twin quakes -- the 7.8 magnitude earthquake of 25th April 2015 and the 7.3 magnitude aftershock of 12th May-- turned many schools into rubble. Most schools in the rural areas of the country, including the Shree Siddhi Kamaladevi Secondary School of Pipaldanda in Sindhupalchowk were constructed with mud and mortar. Most of these came down with the first quake. In Sindhupalchowk district alone only 34 of the 4962 classrooms in 691 schools (of them 34 private) were deemed to be free of damage. A total of 2746 were said to be fully damaged and 1273 had major damage.</strong> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The school is built on a circular plot of land beneath a huge <em>pipal</em> tree. The blue tarp see to the left corner is where the Child Friendly Centre (CFS) had been set up</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Slogan painted on the outer wall of the school building talks about the need to keep the earth clean by building toilets in every home. Sindhupalchowk was on the verge of declaring itself free of open defecation, until the earthquake played havoc and knocked down most of the toilets that had been built across the district.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Compared to some other schools in other areas, at least this school still had its roof and main structure standing</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Temporary toilets set up in the school premises for use by children coming to the Child Friendly Space</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This part of the school that seems to be have been built later with concrete pillar was more intact. Yet some parts of this wall painted with pictures of imminent personalities collapsed ...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> A lone harmonium stands in the middle of a room that must have been a arts and craft room</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Another building added at another time has metal truss that seem to have withstood the jolts of the quake, yet the partition walls and outer walls caved in</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Looking across the yard. The newly built and yet damaged District Hospital of Charikot (white buildings) can be seen in the backdrop</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> In front of the southern damaged blocks can be seen logs and branches brought in by locals to build a Temporary Learning Centre </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> One can imagine if it was not a Saturday, and thus a school holiday, what would have happened to children either sitting on those benches, crammed shoulder to shoulder. Or what would have happened to them even if they found time, to duck cover or hold under the benches </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Southern end of the eastern block</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Students said that this used to be a multimedia room. The cushions were placed on the carpeted floor for students to watch educational videos </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> A lone slide in the middle of the yard</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Remains of the science / resource room with maps strewn all over</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the windows hang dramatically like buntings across a 'rubbled' classrooms </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> The length of the eastern block.. from inside...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">... and outside. 80- percent of the houses in the district were damaged. Every turn on the dirt road we took brought us to areas that had been leveled by the temblor. In the background in the hills once can see the white tents where people of that damaged settlement are taking shelter in</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EuENx2g6BZM/VW8ofNL9m4I/AAAAAAAACZg/lJAt8PKxTBE/s1600/DSCN3461.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EuENx2g6BZM/VW8ofNL9m4I/AAAAAAAACZg/lJAt8PKxTBE/s640/DSCN3461.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Cracked remains of a blackboard </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> The meeting hall</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Damaged artwork</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Half broken promise of respecting children rights in the new Constitution</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> The eastern block from the outside.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">... And this is just one of the nearly 600 damaged schools in Sindhupalchowk district alone. Across the 14 districts that took the worst brunt of the earthquake, over 32,000 classrooms were totally damaged, posing a big challenge for the early resumption of school.</span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia; font-size: x-small;">write up and photos by Rupa Joshi</span></em></div>
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Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and UNICEF officials, including Ms. Haeng Lan Jo, Representative of KOICA Nepal and Mr. Tomoo Hozumi, UNICEF Representative to Nepal, visited Baitadi and Dadeldhura districts last month to review first-hand the impact of the organizations’ efforts to improve the health status of the children and women in far western Nepal. Since 2013, KOICA has been partnering with UNICEF to support the Government of Nepal in implementing programmes that improve maternal and neonatal care for unreached populations in 15 districts.. KOICA has pledged US$ 4.5 million for three years to UNICEF Nepal’s Maternal and Child Health programme. </div>
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Despite many challenges, Nepal is one of the few countries “on track” to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 (reduce child mortality) and 5 (improve maternal health).</div>
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One of the success factors behind the achievements is the commitment of the Government of Nepal to improve the lives of its children and women. KOICA and UNICEF have been working closely with the Government to support the latter in this journey together with other development partners.<br />
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During this trip, the team witnessed the dedication of often unsung heroes - health workers, mothers’ group members, female community health volunteers (FCHVs) and others working tirelessly in the remote parts of the nation. Throughout the visit, KOICA and UNICEF staff were able to interact with these heroes, who make real and lasting changes for the health of children and women.</div>
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In Siddheshwor Village Development Committee (VDC) in Baitadi, the team learned about how the community has been utilizing locally mobilized resources to improve the quality of the maternal and child health service<br />
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“Our VDC has invested almost US$ 15,000 to upgrade birthing centers, to purchase a refrigerator for vaccine storage and to strengthen an incentive scheme for FCHVs,” said Mr. Madan Mahara, Sub Health Post In Charge.</div>
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Mr. Mahara also added that the VDC had received continuous support from UNICEF for the establishment of Health Watch Group, emergency fund for safe delivery, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS (PMTCT) services as well as immunization programme.<br />
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Next stop for the team was a visit to Gwallekh VDC in Baitadi to attend a celebration ceremony of full immunisation coverage of children in the VDC.<br />
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The road to the remote VDC was extremely muddy - remnants of a recent rain. The team members placed rocks in the tracks for their vehicles to be able proceed to the VDC.</div>
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The celebration at Gwallekh started with a song composed by local students emphasizing the importance of full immunization. During the congratulatory remarks, Mr. Hozumi highlighted the contribution of the Korean Government.<br />
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“We, in UNICEF, are very proud to be part of this public health milestone, but it would not been possible without very generous support from Korean Government to achieve the health improvement in this district," Mr. Hozumi said. "When all the stakeholders from Village Development Committee (VDC), health workers, FCHVs, local politicians, and even donors work together, we can make a big difference in the lives of children and women."</div>
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Ms. Jo also congratulated the VDC, and said, “On behalf of the Korean Government, I would like to express my sincere congratulations to the full immunisation VDC status and wish that all the children in this village will stay healthy and prosperous.”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Ms. Haeng Lan Jo, Representative of KOICA Nepal office delivers her speech. UNICEF Nepal/2015/HKim<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </td></tr>
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Baitadi is among the first districts in Nepal supported by UNICEF for evidence-based district level planning process.<br />
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Dr. Guna Raj Awasti, District Health Officer, shared the progress of the evidence-based planning with all stakeholders in the districts. The district had a significant improvement in terms of the rate of institution delivery from 29 per cent in 2013/14 to 42 per cent in 2014/15. Budget allocation from VDCs) to Health has also increased from US$ 5,000 in 2013/14 to US$ 100,000 in 2014/15.</div>
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On the same day, BCG and Measles-Rubella (MR) vaccines arrived in the Baitadi District after a few months of national shortage. UNICEF had assisted the Ministry of Health and Population in procuring the essential vaccines for children in Nepal.<br />
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“This is a good example of partnership between the Government and UNICEF," Dr. Awasti said. "We are delighted to be able to provide BCG and MR vaccination again from today."<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Community-based care through Community Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANM)</span></b><br />
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On the third day, the team visited Dadeldhura District Hospital to learn about the community ANM program. UNICEF has been supporting the Ministry of Health and Population to pilot this programme in the district. There are total 60 ANMs working in the district, and one Community ANM is in charge of overseeing three wards in a VDC When recruiting the ANM, the district health office gives priority to local female ANM given their local knowledge, network and sense of accountability to their communities.<br />
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The Community ANMs' responsibilities vary from preventive services to monitoring and supervision. They conduct door-to-door surveys in their catchment area in collaboration with FCHVs and maintain demographic and health information. They conduct monthly home visits to ensure that every pregnant woman in their village completes four antenatal check-ups, goes through institutional delivery, as well as completes postnatal care checkups, both for the mother and child. They also work with FCHVs to mobilise mothers' groups to promote positive health behaviours as well as to conduct reproductive health promotion sessions. These sessions include information dissemination and awareness generation on gender-based violence in schools.</div>
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Highlighting the achievements of the programme, the focal person of the Community ANM Programme in Dadeldhura District Health Office said, “Our expected outcomes through the Community ANM Programme is 90 per cent coverage with four antenatal care checkups and three postnatal care checkups, 80 per cent coverage with institutional delivery, increase in timely referral, achievement of Open Defecation Free District and full immunisation wards, and 100 per cent coverage with Tetanus Toxoid immunisation and iron supplementation of pregnant women.”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Mr. Dan Bahadur Bhatta, health post in-charge explains the progress after introduction of community ANM in their VDC. UNICEFNepal/2015/HKim</td></tr>
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In Aalital VDC, the health post in-charge explained the improvements in the VDC after the launch of the community ANM programme. There was a huge increase of service utilisation in the last six months. The coverage of four antenatal checkups increased from 34 per cent in 2013/14 to 66 per cent in 2014/15. Similarly, three postnatal checkups jumped from 5 per cent to 93 per cent, and institutional delivery from 30 per cent to 60 per cent during the same period.<br />
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The stakeholders, including local politicians, FCHVs, Ward Citizens Forum members and local journalists expressed their appreciation to the positive changes that Community ANM has brought in the village.</div>
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One local politician shared his reflection on the Community ANM program by saying, “Now, we feel that health services has come closer to our community.”</div>
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Aalital VDC has developed a simple yet innovative way to encourage all parents to register their children’s births. Tapping on its strong health network and high immunisation coverage, the VDC decided to link the immunisation record with birth registration. They added an immunisation card on the back of the birth certificate. This has encouraged parents and caregivers to register the birth of their children when they come for immunisation.</div>
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“Every parent wants their children to be healthy, so we leveraged our status as a fully immunised VDC to increase birth registration," Mr. Bhatta said. "Our villagers now realise that both birth registration and full immunisation are parents’ prime responsibility for their children."</div>
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"We are very proud to be the first VDC in Nepal linking immunisation with birth registration. This small change contributed to our VDC achieving a full birth registration status as well,”<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Partnership makes a difference</span></b><br />
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Ms. Jo summarised her learning during the trip by saying, “We were able to observe the real changes made in the field through UNICEF’s programmes. In particular, I was amazed how UNICEF is closely working with both central and district level government to cascade the impact down to the community levels. I’d like to appreciate UNICEF’s ongoing efforts to improve the lives of Nepali children and women.”</div>
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Mr. Hozumi noted, “generous support has provided us with an excellent opportunity to support the Government of Nepal to intensify national and sub-national efforts for maternal and newborn survival among the most disadvantaged and vulnerable districts. Notable achievements and progress toward expanding quality maternal and child health services have been observed from the policy to community levels in the 15 target districts. UNICEF Nepal is extremely grateful to the Government of Korea for its assistance and looks forward to further collaboration for the betterment of children and women in Nepal.” <br />
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<strong><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">On the 2nd of January 2015, Jajarkot became the 20th district in the country, the 1st in Bheri zone, and 5th in the mid-western region to be declared "open defecation free" (ODF), meaning every household had access to a toilet. </span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">When the epidemic had struck in 2009, only 4 out of every 10 households had a toilet. Jajarkot's leap in terms of sanitation reflected the reaction to the shock the nation had received when, in the 21st century, diarrhoeal epidemics could take so many lives! It was a shock for UNICEF too, which had been celebrating 4 Decades of Partnership in Nepal. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Some of the headlines in the national dailies in July 2009 reflected the shock the country was reeling under.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"Whole family perishes to diarrhoea"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"217 die without receiving a sip of ORS"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The cholera outbreak was a wake-up call for the government, for UNICEF, and the people in the most impacted districts. UNICEF played a crucial role then by initiating the movement <em>"Aligning for Action: Making Diarrhoea Epidemics a History"</em> and making a concerted decision to be the convener for broad consensus amongst all governmental and non-governmental actors, rather than pushing for individual projects. The movement that started in Surkhet district of the mid-west region in 2010 to chart a sanitation road-map, snowballed into a social movement that had a strong spillover effect at the national level too, and which resulted in the launch of the National Sanitation and Hygiene Master Plan by the President of Nepal in 2011! The Plan aimed for universal sanitation coverage in the country by 2017. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In Jajarkot, people took the sanitation movement on a massive scale. It prepared a district sanitation plan in 2011 and aimed to make the district ODF by 2015. Later, a series of sanitation workshops at the district, <em>ilaka</em> and VDC levels helped to develop common consensus that building toilets was an individual's responsibility. Everyone, government agencies, local and national NGOs, INGOs and UNICEF came together with joints plans and financing for WASH programmes. In four years 21,000 toilets were built, the last 13,000 toilets were built in 120 days, meaning there were 75 toilets being constructed in a single day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">In these intervening years the mid-western region made 180 per cent increment in sanitation coverage, the highest amongst all the five development regions of the country.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Jajarkot and its neighbouring district Rukum, in the mid-western region, were also the only districts amongst the 20 ODF districts where <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: small;">diarrhoeal incidence in under-five children had been decreasing in the last five years -- from 1070 cases to 430 cases – almost 60 per cent decrease!</span> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">ODF Celebration on 2nd January 2015</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> After rain seemed to be playing a spoilsport in the event, the venue was switched to the top of the hill of the district headquarters. Revellers in small batches, started making their way uphill. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The official programme begins, seizing the moment...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Guests are garlanded. They included members of Constituent Assembly representing Jajarkot, local government officials...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> A moment of silence in honour of the souls lost in the 2009 epidemic, and the bus accident a month earlier in which about five dozen people lost their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">... including one to protect the video camera...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Everyone takes the oath to aim for total sanitation in the district..</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> A line of 30 earthen jars painted blue representing every VDC of the district...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> ... including this one of Dandagaon which was the first VDC to be declared ODF in Jajarkot</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Village WASH Coordination Committee member and teacher from Dandagaon <br />Mr. Prachanda Oli talks about how they rallied to make a difference for sanitation in their village, starting from the declaration of ward # 6 of the VDC as ODF.
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Resources Management Programme,</span> Mr Madan Bhatta, while highlighting the role played by his agency in the sanitation movement stressed that ODF movement would help to prevent further loss of human lives as well as financial resources in the future. </span></span></div>
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Red Cross in Nepalgunj outlined the poor condition in the VDCs when they first started work in the district, and how everything took a turn for the better following the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">district and
<em>Ilaka</em> level sanitation conferences, and thanked everyone for their efforts on behalf of the Nepal Red Cross and the Swiss Red Cross.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-97T6njUH9qA/VMSgKFXN-fI/AAAAAAAACSM/MHbEBbDoPP4/s1600/Raj%2BKumar%2BChhetri.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-97T6njUH9qA/VMSgKFXN-fI/AAAAAAAACSM/MHbEBbDoPP4/s1600/Raj%2BKumar%2BChhetri.JPG" height="480" width="640" /></a></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Mr. Rajendra Aryal, Chair of the Federation of
Drinking Water and Sanitation Users Nepal, in Kathmandu, while appreciating the efforts of all that led to the declaration of ODF in Jajarkot, acknowledged the boost the movement got following the UN resolution of 2010 which declared <span lang="EN-US">water supply and sanitation as basic human rights. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span lang="EN-US">Mr. Binod Kumar Agrawal, Regional Director
of Regional Monitoring and Supervision Office in Surkhet said, "Before the endorsement of the </span><span lang="EN-US">sanitation and hygiene master plan in 2011 by the government, there were different modalities of implementing WASH programmes in the districts. The government's effort in bringing the master plan helped to bring
all stakeholders together and which also helped to stress the strategy that construction of toilets was the individual's
responsibility. It is because of this that today Jajarkot has been able to declare itself an ODF district."</span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zf0WN49SjSM/VLKTGlh0AMI/AAAAAAAACPc/o4tlfmyVh5w/s1600/DSCN9751.JPG" height="480" width="640" /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #134f5c;">Chief District Officer Mr. Jagat Bahadur Basnet, stressed that ODF status did not mean total sanitation and that everyone needed to, as per their oath, to the <span lang="EN-US">commit to practicing
healthy behavior by washing hands with soap and water, maintaining personal
hygiene, as well as environmental sanitation too.</span></span></span></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EX4RwW1_ORA/VLKTIq24xoI/AAAAAAAACPo/M5iFKhLtzGI/s1600/DSCN9757.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-EX4RwW1_ORA/VLKTIq24xoI/AAAAAAAACPo/M5iFKhLtzGI/s1600/DSCN9757.JPG" height="480" width="640" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Constituent Assembly member Ms. Rita Rawal, pointed out how ironical it was that in the 21st Century we are talking about hiding our faeces. "The rain that is pouring here today is also a message from the heavens, that water is an important factor needed to aim for total sanitation..."</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCz_r6XE7S_pHxXBMtO54M-lfra-Sy9sVbj7MZT8hY8i8YqBtrL4ecnZciCWTWmjtVwVOeCatOCDt_dyOJyruDMyPS2TNXRJDrwuYs1ihfYqiNnaFxfA78ofwA8E4yloecI9bcDbo9kNw/s1600/DSCN9759.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCz_r6XE7S_pHxXBMtO54M-lfra-Sy9sVbj7MZT8hY8i8YqBtrL4ecnZciCWTWmjtVwVOeCatOCDt_dyOJyruDMyPS2TNXRJDrwuYs1ihfYqiNnaFxfA78ofwA8E4yloecI9bcDbo9kNw/s1600/DSCN9759.JPG" height="480" width="640" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Time for piping hot tea in the cold rainy day...</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z2LQjZYJd90/VLKTLXIymKI/AAAAAAAACP8/G8LwbTD74iI/s1600/DSCN9760.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Z2LQjZYJd90/VLKTLXIymKI/AAAAAAAACP8/G8LwbTD74iI/s1600/DSCN9760.JPG" height="480" width="640" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Mr. Shakti Bahadur Basnet, Constituent Assembly member outlined the important role that political parties played in the sanitation movement, and the role that they can play in the future for the district's quest to reach total sanitation.</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mkgZa8xh-Is/VLKTMp2rwwI/AAAAAAAACQM/hLuBi611L7c/s1600/DSCN9761.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mkgZa8xh-Is/VLKTMp2rwwI/AAAAAAAACQM/hLuBi611L7c/s1600/DSCN9761.JPG" height="480" width="640" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> A respite in the rains...</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A9HAHjc1uk8/VLKTL-ItqLI/AAAAAAAACQA/YHVZnG0eZ0E/s1600/DSCN9768.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A9HAHjc1uk8/VLKTL-ItqLI/AAAAAAAACQA/YHVZnG0eZ0E/s1600/DSCN9768.JPG" height="480" width="640" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> ... and the handover of the official felicitation plaque to the Local Development Officer of Jajarkot by the Regional WASH Coordination Committee </span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ps6950xSFEw/VLKTNQLMW0I/AAAAAAAACQY/w1IQjLIBj6U/s1600/DSCN9771.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ps6950xSFEw/VLKTNQLMW0I/AAAAAAAACQY/w1IQjLIBj6U/s1600/DSCN9771.JPG" height="480" width="640" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Then followed the handover of plaques to partners in the sanitation movement, including UNICEF. Here Constituent Assembly member Mr. Rajeev Shah hands over the plaque to Dr. Khan.</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SNwguOunQJ0/VLKTNE_lsSI/AAAAAAAACQQ/cjwIpv3651I/s1600/DSCN9775.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SNwguOunQJ0/VLKTNE_lsSI/AAAAAAAACQQ/cjwIpv3651I/s1600/DSCN9775.JPG" height="480" width="640" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Then the "token of love" plaque...</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PHa4doyGHTQ/VLKTOUoXmxI/AAAAAAAACQg/VB9yFqNd-H0/s1600/DSCN9776.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PHa4doyGHTQ/VLKTOUoXmxI/AAAAAAAACQg/VB9yFqNd-H0/s1600/DSCN9776.JPG" height="480" width="640" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Mr. Rajeev Shah, Constituent Assembly member, said that although Jajarkot is making a lot of improvement, with road connection, and now with toilets in every home, yet a lot still needed to be done. He urged partners like UNICEF, Helvetas and the Red Cross to provide support for the district's quest for total sanitation, including support for water supply projects. </span></div>
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Officer and Chair of District WASH CC Mr. Gyan Raj Pandey thanked the
contribution made by all sectors, agencies and individuals that made it
possible for Jajarkot to achieve ODF status and looked forward to similar
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> ... as people started heading home, a glimmer of blue skies in the distance.. and a hope of a brighter days ahead.. for Jajarkot, and the nation!</span></div>
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More than 10,000 gathered at the Tundikhel Grounds to
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KATHMANDU, 8 December 2014 – On a recent warm and sunny Saturday, Vikash Khadka imagined a world where every child gets the opportunity to grow up in a healthy environment, where no child is deprived of education and where no child faces any sort of discrimination.</div>
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Vikash Khadka holds the board with his message on how he
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Mr. Khadka was one of more than 10,000 individuals gathered at Tundikhel, a landmark ground located at the heart of the capital, to celebrate the 25 years of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on December 6. The event, organized by UNICEF Nepal, aimed to increase awareness about children’s rights as well as encourage everyone to imagine a better world for children.<br />
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The celebrations included a free musical concert featuring performances by children; Nepal’s most reputed traditional folk ensemble Kutumba; and upcoming singer and songwriter Bipul Chettri.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bipul Chettri performs during the CRC@25 celebration on December 6. © UNICEF Nepal/2014/CSKarki</td></tr>
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The five children’s bands performing at the event were Mitrata Nepal, Imperial World School, Dallu Awasiya School, Music Musica Institute and Adarsha Saula Yubak Higher Secondary School. The musical performances, especially those by children with disability, drew ovation from the crowd.<br />
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Children with disability perform during CRC@25 celebration
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“This kid stole my attention, not only mine but that of the whole crowd, “ wrote Nirnit Tandukar, one of the concert-goers, on his Facebook photo post referring to one of the children performers with disability. “Though he could not see the crowd cheering him, he sang his heart out!”<br />
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Girls and women of the traditional "Dhime" group
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Kutumba’s performance also featured young musical talents from the Himalayan, mid Hills and the lower Terai regions of the nation.<br />
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As music flowed through the 15-acre ground, children and youth enjoyed many fun-filled activities facilitated by youth volunteers. These included WASH related snake and ladder games as well wheel-chair games for people without disability intended to raise awareness about the challenges faced by people with disability in their day to day lives, as well as to demonstrate that they have different abilities.<br />
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Children participate in arts and crafts during CRC@25
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There were also selfie stalls, and opportunity to take pictures with cutouts of UNICEF ambassadors at Tundikhel. There was even a Book Bus from the American Embassy. At the same time more than a dozen stalls set up by various organizations provided information on the work being done for the betterment of the children and youth in Nepal. Child-friendly posters of the CRC in both English and Nepali were also distributed among the concert participants to raise awareness about child rights. The text and illustrations for the posters were developed in consultation with children. <br />
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Through the event, UNICEF also invited everyone to use the new mobile app “#IMAGINE Touchcast” to record John Lennon’s Imagine, one of the world’s most beloved songs, and share it through social media using the hashtags #EVERYVOICECOUNTS and #IMAGINE. Meanwhile UNICEF National Ambassador Ani Choying Drolma, also known as the Singing Nun, has aleady recorded her verison of the song, which has been uploaded to the website.<br />
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The events on December 6 were part of the year-long activities to celebrate CRC@25 in Nepal. On the actual CRC Day on 20 November, UNICEF Nepal and Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) commenced the “Clean, Green and Child-friendly Kathmandu City” initiative aimed at improving the lives of children living in the city. This was one of the nationwide initiatives towards the development of child-friendly spaces in the country to mark 25 years of the CRC. This has been spurred by the emerging issue of shrinking open spaces for children to play in urban areas.<br />
The initiative was kicked off with foundation stone laying of child-friendly toilets in the historic Ratna Park by children, UNICEF Nepal National Ambassador Ani Choying Drolma, representatives from KMC as well as UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia and UNICEF Nepal Representative.<br />
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Foundation stone laying of child-friendly toilets in Ratna
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This is part of the plans to turn the park, once a historic landmark, and which had fallen to neglect and lack of maintenance, into a child and disabled-friendly park.<br />
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The event at Ratna Park also included the unveiling of the branding of the local 55-seater Sajha buses with child-friendly logos.<br />
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Unveiling of the branding of Sajha buses with
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Working under the purview of Nepal Government’s Local Governance and Community Development Programme (LGCDP) and guided by its core component of Child/Environment Friendly Local Governance, UNICEF and KMC will work together to promote Child-Friendly Cities Initiatives.<br />
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As the cooperation unfolds, the two institutions will identify areas and activities that will bring significant impact on the children, adolescents and women in Kathmandu city and later in other urban areas of Nepal. Municipalities around the nation also allocated green spaces for children, planted trees in children’s parks as well as committed to work towards establishing child-friendly municipalities to mark CRC@25.<br />
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A month earlier, marking the Global Hand Washing Day on October 15, Nepal celebrated 25 years of child survival with a kite-flying event. More than 250 children participated in the fun-filled event raising awareness about the importance of hand washing and proper hygiene for child survival.<br />
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A child flies a kite during celebration marking Global Hand
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The CRC@25 celebrations in Nepal will culminate with an inter-generational dialogue between 25, 50, 75 and 100-year-olds. The discussion, to be broadcast on National electronic media will also include child rights experts and individuals working for the betterment of children in Nepal. The event will seek to highlight the achievements made by Nepal in the last 25 years in the field of child rights and survival as well as challenges moving ahead. <br />
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unicef nepalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05034185178478473061noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447149956969618178.post-63959153691878385412014-09-05T04:22:00.001-07:002014-09-05T04:22:22.650-07:00The Night that Changed their Lives<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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days of incessant rainfall starting 14 August 2014 caused considerable
damage in <span style="color: #0d0d0d; mso-themecolor: text1; mso-themetint: 242;"><span style="color: #073763;">10</span></span><span style="color: red;"> </span>districts of Mid & Far West Regions of
Nepal. In the four most affected districts -- Banke, Bardiya, Surkhet and Dang-- 94 people lost their lives, and another 114 are missing. While nearly 29,000 families (around 130,000 people) have been declared affected, more than 5,200 families have been displaced, with more than 27,000 homes fully or partially damaged. Thousands of acres of agricultural land have been inundated, hundreds of acres washed away</strong>. </span></span></div>
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hundreds; clogged in mud, or rendered uninhabitable, or washed away by the
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the doorway on the afternoon that we did the <em>Nwaaran</em> for my son,” says Indariya
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22 days old, in Mohammadpur village</em></span></span><br />
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ankles and she and her husband clutched their three children and ran to the
road for safety. That’s where they’ve all been living since – all 108 homes in
the village of Mohammadpur. </span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #073763;">As we drive further along the road into
Gulariya, the situation is the same: hundreds of makeshift tents along the highway,
and of a people displaced by the mighty Babai River in this district in the
Western Terai, which is battered by the monsoons every year.</span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #073763;"><em>A woman cooks in the open in Bardiya</em> </span></span><br />
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #073763;">Bardiya district and its low lying
areas, approximately 500 kilometres southwest of Kathmandu, is affected by the
monsoon floods every year, but this year was the worst in decades, according to
Nepal Red Cross Society officials in Gulariya.</span></span></div>
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building of the NRCS itself, where floodwaters from the Babai flowed into town
and damaged a lot of relief items stored in their compound. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #073763;">Mr. Shiva Raj Subedi from the Bardiya
chapter of the NRCS offers to drive along with us to visit some other
communities that were hit hardest by the flooding in this district.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #073763;">He shows me his camera and we look at
images of the town of Gulariya, submerged in knee-deep water. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Bardiya NRCS offices the day after the flooding (Photo: Sagar Gyawali)</em></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #073763;">“We were beginning to get worried that
if the waters kept on rising, the whole town would have to be evacuated,” said
Mr. Subedi as we drove west from Gulariya.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #073763;">The destruction is widespread, and even
ten days after the flood waters have receded, the soil on both sides of the
road is like putty. Soft and buttery, but of no use for crops or farming. Large
sections of the road are washed away, and is dangerously close to being severed
by the continuing rains. </span></span></div>
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sections of the road have been washed away</em></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #073763;">A few hundred metres later and onto a
dirt road, and our big vehicle is suddenly on unsure footing. Our driver
changes gears and into 4-wheel mode, but even with all four feet on the ground
our vehicle is perilously close to getting side-swept off the road, the
knee-deep slush and mud that has now become the road.</span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #073763;">We walk the last few hundred metres on
foot to the town of Bagahi, which today is a distribution centre for food items
for those most affected by the flood. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #073763;">“To the right in the distance is the
former town of Rampur Tappa,” says Mr. Subedi, pointing to two tin roofs
visible across the Babai River.</span></span></div>
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Tappa village, near the village of Bagahi</em></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #073763;">Rampur Tappa was until the 15<sup>th</sup>
of August a settlement of 43 homes, surrounded on three sides by the Babai
river. Today only two roofs are standing; the other 41 were washed away.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: #073763;">When we get to Bagahi, there is a large
crowd. Residents from the surrounding wards are here today to receive their
share of relief items, and the crowd also includes about 164 members from
Rampur Tappa.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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such as NRCS and other development partners like UNICEF and WFP and others,
have mounted a response effort to support those affected by the floods in
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prevent the outbreak of diarrhoeal water borne diseases and has helped train
volunteers who are being dispatched to all affected VDCs for one month, and who
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unicef nepalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05034185178478473061noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447149956969618178.post-71261312987681711952013-06-12T05:26:00.002-07:002013-06-12T05:36:25.333-07:00Saying No to Child Labour in Domestic Work!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><strong><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">June 12th: World Day Against Child labour.<br />The day was commemorated in Kathmandu today raising awareness of the public regarding child labour in domestic work. A rally of almost 2000 people through the heart of Kathmandu wound its way to the historic 16<sup>th</sup> century Kathmandu Durbar Square where everyone pledged to say “No to Child Labour in Domestic Work” in Nepal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mr. Lila Mani Poudel, Chief Secretary, Government of Nepal, inaugurated the rally that started in front of the Bhadrakali temple premises, by releasing a bunch of balloons. Speaking after that he said, "Such a rally is necessary to draw attention of the public on the issues of child labourers. Ultimately, child labour can only be eliminated with stringent laws and punishing those who flout it. For hiring child labour is a crime." </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> ... the rally starts... UNICEF Representative Ms. Hanaa Singer is holding the right end of the banner...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">.. the tip now held by <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jose Assalino, ILO Country Director for Nepal... </span></span></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x9oYKJxBMaw/UbhYj2FN48I/AAAAAAAABn4/kcFYgcrcts4/s1600/child+labour+04.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" cya="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-x9oYKJxBMaw/UbhYj2FN48I/AAAAAAAABn4/kcFYgcrcts4/s1600/child+labour+04.JPG" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> ... walking past the Shahid (Martyr's) Gate...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> ... and onto the stretch along Tundikhel... The banner reads, "Let's end child labour in domestic work!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> ... walking on.. Chief Secretary in Nepali dress and cap in second row...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> ... walking along New Road ...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> ... child labour is a crime, reads the placard being raised by the boy in the front...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Slogans raised at the end of the rally by children and adults alike: "Not work, Give us Education!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">...more innovative and illustrative placards...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> .. the rally ended in front of this temple at the Durbar Square... the banners used in the rally now decorating the giant steps below the temple...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> ... writing on the t-shirts: "End child labour in domestic work"...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> ... "End child labour. Using child labour is a crime."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">...ILO and UNICEF Representatives wait for the speeches to begin...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> .. placard by Government and Plan depicting various forms of child labour...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> .. some members of the UNICEF contingent...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Krishna Hari Pushkar, the Director General of the Department of Labour said, <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">“Child labour is a social disease, and like all diseases it must be tackled in a concerted manner so that it is removed forever." <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> .. .until she breaks out of the exploitative cocoon, takes matter into her own hands... and decides she should be given a chance to live as a child and with the help of the police who finally come from behind ther curtains, goes home with her father...</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ms. Geeta Rao Gupta was in town last week for a Regional Management Team Meeting. We in UNICEF Nepal had the opportunity to host a visit for Ms. Rao to our office and also for a brief field visit to Kavre district (east of Kathmandu valley). While she was here Ms. Rao also paid a courtesy call to the President and Vice President of Nepal. It was a short but sweet trip.. filled with laughter and the big beaming smile of Ms. Rao. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ms. Rao visited UNICEF Nepal Country Office on 24th April 2013. The staff had made preparations to show her, in a span of two hours, a glimpse of UNICEF programming in the country. Diversity & Development almost seemed like the theme of the day starting from a presentation from the Deputy Representative Dr. Will Parks to the issues displayed by various programme sections in a "marketplace" kind of display under the huge sprawling tent.. to the ethnic wear worn by the staff that reflected the diversity in the office too! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Just before her arrival field office staff present in Kathmandu get ready to sing the national anthem "सयौँ थुङा फुलका हामी एउटै माला नेपाली" -- (we are a hundred flowers woven into a single Nepali garland). This is the anthem that in 2007 replaced the old one that basically sang praises about monarchy! Here are a few staff from the Mid & Far West, Central and Western and Eastern region field offices...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> ... Upon arrival Geetaji is offered auspicious <em>'sagun'</em> greetings according to Newari traditions by Bimala and Anjali from UNICEF Bharatpur office. ...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> ... Geetaji and Hanaa share a word...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">.. All the programme sections had put up special display (playacting, multimedia presentations or show & tell) all around the tent, to explain a bit of their work. A 'pregnant' woman below is brought to the 'health post' on a stretcher in one of the acts to demonstrate continuum of care... </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">... and WASH colleagues' innovation was a conversation between an angel and a foetus on the sanitation conditions of the village she is going to be born in soon.. She received assurance from the winged one that the village was gearing up to declare "ODF- open defecation free', so she need not worry!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Geetaji poses with the now young adults who had been associated with the armed conflict as children, and who have now been fully reintegrated back in society and are pursuing education and work... On the occasion Sita (in pink sweater) presented Geetaji with the "छापामार युवतिको डायरी" (young female guerrilla's diary) book written by a former combatant...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">After the the marketplace round, it was turn for Geetaji to speak. That is when the rains that had been stayed due to prayers to all the Gods, suddenly poured down almost deafeningly!! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“</span>We must learn to innovate; learn to skip technology in order to be more effective," said Ms. Rao Gupta in her address to staff of UNICEF Nepal. "SMS services are already boosting birth registration, and technology and innovation can create learning tools and apps for children and adolescents. It works perfectly because children are more comfortable with, and easily adopt and adapt to new technology and learning methods.”</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">... The next day Ms. Rao paid a courtesy call to the Vice President Rt. Hon. Mr. Paramananda Jha. The Vice President lauded UNICEF's role in ensuring that children are not malnourished and stressed that sanitation and education can, and must go hand in hand...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">... On the 26th just before departing for the field trip to Kavre, Geetaji paid a courtesy call to the President of Nepal Rt. Hon. Dr. Ram Baran Yadav at his office in Sheetal Nibas. Hanaa Singer and Rupa Joshi accompanied her... Geetaji praised the government in the excellent progress made by Nepal in achieving the MDGs, and how all must now keep their eyes on the SDGs. She also lauded the example set by the country in its battle against malnutrition, in declaring schools as zones of peace and the country's exemplary social movement on sanitation...</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iPCv_gh_tgs/UX64wak7m1I/AAAAAAAABmI/j_Resb5ESVw/s1600/ded+42.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" height="334" lua="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iPCv_gh_tgs/UX64wak7m1I/AAAAAAAABmI/j_Resb5ESVw/s640/ded+42.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"I really appreciate the contribution made by UN agencies like UNICEF and WHO to protect the health of Nepali children and mothers, " said the President, as he reminisced about his stint as health minister a couple of decades ago. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Yes, Nepal has made huge leaps in many field, despite the conflict," added the President. "The health of our children and mothers, especially, is much better than others in the region. However, we know that we could have done much better, and fared much better if our governance was in track." </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">.. The next stop after lunch in Dhulikhel was Dapcha VDC in Kavre district. The Himalaya unfortunately didn't make a show, hidden behind a misty haze. <br />Below.. a hazy southern view of the hilltops of Dapcha...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Being welcomed into the health facility by the Chairperson of the Health Management Committee, Mr. Subarna Shrestha...</span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mr. Bhagirath Adhikari, health post incharge, while tracing the history of immense community support in the development of the facility, also credited the "Appreciative Inquiry" training provided by UNICEF many years ago which inspired them to take their roles even more seriously. He also mentioned a maternal death that shook them into action into having birthing facility available in the village...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">...Child club member Sita explains how the club conducts extra curricular activities in the school and community by collecting donation on birthdays. "I gave rupees 50 ( less than a dollar) on my last birthday!" she said.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">... Next it was meeting with the 'miracle women ' of Nepal, the Female Community Health Volunteers , FCHVs, (few of the 50,000 spread across the country), who are the front line health workers...</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">... Framed with the UNICEF logo of mother and child, Roshani Pariyar and Niru Lama with their sons. Both gave birth to their children at the centre. There is 100 per cent institutional delivery in the village...</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">.. and then it is the turn of Niru Lama's sleepy 8-month-old son...</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">... the FCHVs open up their bags to demonstrate the extent of work they do.. all voluntary... from treatment of diarrhoea, to respiratory infections (which they treat with antibiotics), to family planning and caring for newborn babes and attending on pregnant and new mothers... They receive an initial training of 18 days and then subsequent training for every other added skil, as well as refresher training packages... </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">FCHV Laxmi Shrestha demonstrates how initially woul- be mothers would hide iron tablets under the eaves so that they could make excuses for not taking them. She went on to explain how the FCHVs kept on hammering the importance of the pills, and the result of successful compliance now.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When the FCHVs were explaining to Geetaji about how they use a simple timer to track babies' breathing and thus help to diagnose acute respiratory infections, Bhubaneshwari Shrestha opened her bag and produced a song she'd penned during the training on 'penumonia" and sang it for the guests. It talks about how ot time the breath rate of babies, what to do if they think the baby has infections and how to call the mother and baby back on the 3rd day to guage the progress. It ends saying, "lord know we're from different places and we met each other during the pneumonia training!"</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">They demonstrated their modus operandi by enacting a case that they had recently handled concerning an unfaithful husband, and his feuding mother and wife...</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">... Penning down a few words of appreciation...</span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6zNyAvFdJAY/UX6PW82EWGI/AAAAAAAABjw/Yq0JvXYXF24/s1600/ded+40.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" height="480" lua="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6zNyAvFdJAY/UX6PW82EWGI/AAAAAAAABjw/Yq0JvXYXF24/s640/ded+40.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">.. a final word with the auxiliary nurse midwife.. as the chief of UNICEF's Bharatpur office Mr. Purushottam Acharya looks on...</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">.. A group shot before departure for Kathmandu...</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">.. A rushed whirlwind trip in Bhaktapur, one of the three cities in Kathmandu Valley.. Here in front of the Golden Gate and the 55-window Durbar (palace). Accompanied here by Krishna Dongol and Robin Giri </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: purple;">.. And fionally the cherry on top of the cake.. In front of the Nyatapola (5-storied pagoda) temple in Bhaktapur, wrapping up the visit...<br /><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: purple; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Most of the pictures taken by Prakash Mathema, and few by Chandrashekhar Karki, Kiran Kumar Pantha and Rupa Joshi </span></em></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">It was a two in one celebration in the UNICEF Nepalgunj office on Magh 2 (15 January). One was the inauguration of the seismically-friendly premises that the office was moving into, and the other was the celebration of UNICEF Nepal's recently launched 5-year country programme and action plan, which geographically will be focused in the mid and far western regions of the country. Magh 2 is also the National Earthquake Safety Day in Nepal in commemoration of the great earthquake of <em>nubbay saal</em> (1934) which wreaked a lot of death and destruction in Nepal as well as northern India.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the stage was all set for the day ...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">some were busy making buntings...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">... and others busy stringing them up.... by any means...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">.. they fluttered in the hazy morning sun...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">the doorway of the new office ready to welcome staff and visitors</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">displays all set up...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">... including show and tell material...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">.. and then first guests start arriving, field office chief is right there to welcome them...</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sutI_KJLfRk/UPWU12Ep7NI/AAAAAAAABIE/f3FaWta1ERk/s1600/inauguration%2B12.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sutI_KJLfRk/UPWU12Ep7NI/AAAAAAAABIE/f3FaWta1ERk/s1600/inauguration%2B12.JPG" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">.. the SP..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">...the Chief Guest,Mr. Dhundi Raj Pokhrel, Chief District Officer of Banke district .. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">...SSP Mr. Madhav Kumar Nepal...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">UNICF Representative Hanaa Singer greets the chief guest</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The programme starts mc'd joint by Radhika...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">... and Madhuri...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">... the audience...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">... Presentation of earthquakes and earthquake safety, including the ways of making buildings safe by WASH Officer Siddhi Shrestha</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">... each dot, and earthquake.. the bigger the dot the greater the magnitude of the quake...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Just before the formal inauguration of the building, a little bit of 'housewarming' ritual.. pouring water and flowers on the house owner. since the owner was not around, Surendra, the Zone Office Chief, was at the receiving of the 'flower shower' !</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">...And then it was time for remarks. First up was the Local Development Officer of Banke, Mr. Bishwa Raj Dotel. He said he was very familiar with UNICEF's programmes, including child friendly local governance, and wished UNICEF a very 'healthy' future...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then it was Hanaa Singer's turn. She referred to the great earthquake of 'nubbay saal' and said, "On this day we need to remember the past and learn from it. And it is when we reflect like that we realise that with destruction also comes the opportunity for reconstruction, of correcting our errors and charting futuristic paths..." She then went on to explain the changes and thrust of the the new country programme. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">"... we have a lot to do in these areas. both geographically and programmatically. And we can only do it if we work together doing<em> haate-maalo</em> and doing <em>'hostay-hainsay! hostay-hainsay!'</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">After that it was the chief guest's turn. W</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">hile appreciating UNICEF's role in uplifting the situation of children and women in Nepal since the 1960s, said, "We are confident that UNICEF will continue to work to build a more inclusive society and to work for the development of and protection of children in the mid and far western regions of Nepal."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">.. the final concluding note and vote of thanks by the Zone Office Chief Surendra Singh Rana...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">When the programme ended visitors went on a tour of the premises</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">After that the visitors went outside and learnt about unicef's programmes down the decades through the displays</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">and a bit of explanation about the prepositioned supplies</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">... Surendra explains about UNICEF's working areas ...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">.. by then the food was laid out...</span></div>
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unicef nepalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05034185178478473061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447149956969618178.post-91447540606806094672012-07-20T02:53:00.000-07:002012-07-20T04:17:05.461-07:00Tanahu celebrates being free of open defecation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong><em>19 July 2012:</em></strong> <strong>It was a celebration of a different sort in Damauli yesterday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The headquarters of Tanahun district saw over 40,000 people decked in their festive finery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A show of the rich cultural heritage of the district. School children waving placards and festoons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dignitaries of high order. Song and dance.. and a lot of handwashing!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even the heavens seem to understand the import of the moment and held at bay the monsoon showers. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a special moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Special because the district was declared open defecation free (ODF)!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tanahun was also the first district to initiate a "District Sanitation Basket Fund" a pool of Budgets and Programmes, including contributions from VDCs, DDCs, donors and programmes from district line agencies. UNICEF is also providing funds in the same basket fund. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tanahun is also a pioneer in building Eco-San toilets in schools, especially in those areas with water shortage, as well as in targeting toilets for the poor families. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Tanahun’s success with the sanitation movement is said to lie in the high level of political commitment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was evident also in the presence of many political leaders past and present in the ODF celebrations. Another reason it was able to achieve total sanitation is also credited with its partnership with the media in the entire campaign. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">... who took their turn to file past playing music, dancing along the way...</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5cEOPHHnyLg/UAkR6Qm9bkI/AAAAAAAABCQ/BAdZ65oKg2Y/s1600/DSC_0850.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-5cEOPHHnyLg/UAkR6Qm9bkI/AAAAAAAABCQ/BAdZ65oKg2Y/s640/DSC_0850.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The celebrations were graced soon by the Hon. Vice President Mr. Paramananda Jha as Chief Guest. Here he is entering the venue for the celebrations welcomed by the Local Development Officer of Tanahun, Mr. Chhabi Lal Rijal</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">UNICEF Nepal Representative Ms. Hanaa Singer was also among the special invitees to the ODF celebrations. Here she is along with Mr. Purushottam Acharya, Chief, UNICEF Nepal, Central and Western Zone Office</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Other invitees included former Ministers and Constituent Assembly members, high ranking government officials, and other regional and district level officials, donors, political party representatives, former DDC officials and representatives from NGOs, <span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: NE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">community based organisations, child club networks, media, unions, private sector, schools, colleges and other vocational institutions, Female Community Health Volunteers, youth clubs, Scouts, Red Cross Volunteers, sportsmen/women as well as various ethnic and cultural organisations. And of course the local people, who converged in the open space in Damauli in droves dressed in their best. </span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Other guests of honour included (from l to r) Mr. Kari Leppanen, Development Counsellor , Embassy of Finland, former minister Mr. Thakur Sharma, and Regional Administrator Mr. Damodar Regmi.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The official plaque of ODF certification from the National Sanitation & Hygiene Coordination Committee was also jointly handed over by the Vice President and other guests to the District WASH Coordination Committee.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: blue;">The Chief Guest also handed over a cheque of Rupees 3000000 to District Development Committee of Tanahun on behalf of the Rural Water Supply & Sanitation Project-Western Nepal (RWSSP-WN) for t<span style="background-color: white;">heir special role in the ODF campaign.</span></span></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hyN06GChYeQ/UAkUhCVrGMI/AAAAAAAABEA/EIUW9QhRl8U/s1600/DSC_0931.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="426" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hyN06GChYeQ/UAkUhCVrGMI/AAAAAAAABEA/EIUW9QhRl8U/s640/DSC_0931.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then followed unveiling of the commemorative information booklet on the ODF Celebrations by the Chief Guest</span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OM8KtgYkj-o/UAf_lz0XWJI/AAAAAAAABAs/uP_BFKvyWCM/s1600/Copy+of+ODF+Progress+Document+made+public.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="426" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OM8KtgYkj-o/UAf_lz0XWJI/AAAAAAAABAs/uP_BFKvyWCM/s640/Copy+of+ODF+Progress+Document+made+public.JPG" width="640" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: blue;">The booklet contains many details about Tanahun's total sanitation drive. For example, it has all the data and statistics: <span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Half of the toilets in nearly 70,000 households in the district were built following the launch </span><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">of the campaign in autumn 2009. This averaged to 26 new toilets being built each day in the district!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The campaign was worth $600,000 with contributions from local bodies, line agencies, government agencies donors, NGOs, <span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: NE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">community forest users groups, media, individuals </span>and last but not the least, the community, who contribution in kind and in labour amounted to 80% of the total budget. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">679 of the 681 schools in the district have toilets and 613 of them have water supply facilities too. The two schools that have yet to have toilets are the newly affiliated schools, and budget has already been allocated for construction of toilets in the very near future for these too. Public toilets have been constructed in nearly half a dozen places in the district, including along the main highway. </span></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uglFME5XJcs/UAf_glU8FzI/AAAAAAAABAU/WQsANz8rnYo/s1600/Copy+of+ODF+Campaign+Progress+Document+made+public+by+VP.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uglFME5XJcs/UAf_glU8FzI/AAAAAAAABAU/WQsANz8rnYo/s640/Copy+of+ODF+Campaign+Progress+Document+made+public+by+VP.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Candles were lit to commemorate the positivity that prevailed in Tanahun that afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">There were more than a dozen felicitatory speeches from various guests and officials, including from Ms. Singer who congratulated the people of Tanahun for doing Poet Bhanubhakta proud by making sure they left a legacy behind, and not to repent like the poet did as he penned "धिक्कार हो मकन बस्नु नराखी कीर्ति !" in his <em>Ghaansi</em> poem.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The speeches were interspersed with songs and dances.. representing the multi-ethnic makeup of the district.. like this <em>kauda</em> dance of the Gurungs</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">During one of the speech breaks, Rupa Sunar, a 10th grader from Shree Pharakchour Higher Secondary School, in Vyas Municipality sang a "Sanitation Song" reflecting the pride and joy the district people felt on the occasion. "No defecation allowed inside Tanahun, Welcome to all of you to an open defecation free zone!" she crooned.</span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-klRlh0959xU/UAf_tYKd5ZI/AAAAAAAABBM/hAuSL3ioWkI/s1600/Copy+of+School+girl+singing+a+sanitation+song+in+the+occasion.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="426" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-klRlh0959xU/UAf_tYKd5ZI/AAAAAAAABBM/hAuSL3ioWkI/s640/Copy+of+School+girl+singing+a+sanitation+song+in+the+occasion.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Next the Chief Guest handed over Certificates and Letters of Appreciation to various personalities and institutions who made significant contribution to make Tanahun ODF.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;">Chairperson of Chandika </span><span style="background-color: white;">Primary School was felicitated for being the first school in Tanahun to declare its catchment area free of open defecation in 2006. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Similarly Bandipur VDC was felicitated for organising the first Sanitation Festival in Nepal in 2008</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Speaking to the public following the felicitation ceremony, the Chief Guest Hon. Paramananda Jha congratulated the coordinated and concerted effort and dedication of all the people, including children, of Tanahun. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Ms. Hanaa Singer receiving the Token of Love on behalf of UNICEF from LDO Mr. Rijal the District WASH Committee.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Many individuals present on the occasion were honoured for their contribution too. Honours being done by MoFALD Secretary Mr. Sital Babu Regmi</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg43R70voqqTBYcQDGBnx3ujaWxd0FyYWI4c1MNmJP7GeeS2LUDniN-c0FfXSQnn3pG5c5eX436KFDKfMGMUIlMYVGiYAJjRVD5yJu2FNSBoz10h8dvYGnke-kjSigoI-QQHDn9BWLULqk/s1600/aa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg43R70voqqTBYcQDGBnx3ujaWxd0FyYWI4c1MNmJP7GeeS2LUDniN-c0FfXSQnn3pG5c5eX436KFDKfMGMUIlMYVGiYAJjRVD5yJu2FNSBoz10h8dvYGnke-kjSigoI-QQHDn9BWLULqk/s640/aa.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Partners in progress standing together during ODF celebrations . (from l to r) Mr. Namaste Lal Shrestha, UNICEF WASH Specialist, Ms. Hanaa Singer, UNICEF Nepal Representative, Mr. Bhupendra Bahadur Basnet, Director General, DOLIDAR, and Mr. Suman Prasad Sharma, Director General, DWSS.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And then of course there were the handwashing stations. What is total sanitation with handwashing, the cheapest vaccine of all. A total of 10,551 people washed their hands with soap and water during the ODF celebrations!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: blue;">What made the ODF ceremony even more unique in Tanahun was the construction of temporary Eco-San urinals. <span lang="EN-GB" style="color: blue; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: NE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Urine from all those visitors and guests who used the facility was collected and taken to Chitwan by the NGO Sewa Nepal that is promoting Eco-San toilets in Chitwan and other districts.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>...The campaign<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that you have started with ODF is actually a huge social movement that will <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>improve the health, nutrition, education, tourism, social and environmental development of this district.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will turn out to be a ground-breaking achievement for the long term sustainable development of Tanahun and Nepal..." </em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #984807; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #984807; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Addressing the gathering Mr. Sharma stressed on the importance of coordinated efforts to further the cause of girls’ education. “While such efforts to promote girls’ education, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>including the mobilisation of former CA members, have been happening at the central level, we need the Network members to work in a concerted and coordinated manner at the local level as well,”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he said.</span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aOWL_cbT9RU/T_-6_m9DHgI/AAAAAAAAA6w/4vQC9rheud4/s1600/ungei+meeting+09.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img $ca="true" border="0" height="464" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aOWL_cbT9RU/T_-6_m9DHgI/AAAAAAAAA6w/4vQC9rheud4/s640/ungei+meeting+09.JPG" width="640" /></a><br />
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<span style="color: #984807; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #984807; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Reflecting on the overly negative coverage of education issues in the national media, Mr. Sharma urged the media representatives not to just focus on what is <u>not</u> happening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Please be sure to also talk about the positive things, the progress that have been made<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the education sector in the country.”</span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YoRRxVyyVWs/T_-6-BInNEI/AAAAAAAAA6k/jv5fEioNmzc/s1600/ungei+meeting+08.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img $ca="true" border="0" height="454" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YoRRxVyyVWs/T_-6-BInNEI/AAAAAAAAA6k/jv5fEioNmzc/s640/ungei+meeting+08.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="color: #984807; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #984807; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Next Dr. Ganapati Ojha<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shared the highlights of the Final Report of the “Formative Evaluation of UNGEI” undertaken in 2010 in Bara & Rautahat districts of Nepal to analyse<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the relevance, effectiveness, efficacy and contributions of UNGEI.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #984807; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #984807; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">While UNGEI had a modest and indirect contribution in mainstreaming girls’ education and equity issues in the National Education Plan, its contribution in the institutionalisation of best practices was notable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These best practices included the piloting of Young Champions, Welcome to School, the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>involvement of Constituent Assembly members in promoting girls’ education, as well as the joint programming<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in five districts between UNICEF and WFP.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #984807; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #984807; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">He noted that UNGEI’s contribution in building the capacity of gender focal points in the government machinery to bring in more girls to schools was notable, although more needs to be done to reach the yet unreached, to retain girls in school, to make an even more engendered curricula, and to take action against sexual harassment in schools.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #984807; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #984807; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Speaking next, Raka Rashid, Education Advisor of UNICEF ROSA explained the global process f UNGEI evaluation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She said that of the countries that underwent the evaluation to analyse the TOR, the joint workplan and budget allocation, only Uganda was seen to have met all three criteria in a satisfactory manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nepal, she said fared better than many countries, but had room for improvement. “We need more players, and need to review the context,” she said.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #984807; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #984807; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Dr. Pashupati Mahat from the Centre for Mental Health Counselling next gave a presentation on Psychogenic Faint, commonly referred to as ‘mass hysteria’ in the schools of Nepal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said that lack of understanding of the causes and nature of the condition is what led to fainting spells in girls that has hampered education in many schools.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #984807; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #984807; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">The audience was intrigued to learn that this phenomenon that largely affected adolescent girls arose from them not being able to cope with stress—either in the family or in the school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was often triggered by an ‘index case’ a susceptible girl who faints and triggers sensitive peers around her to faint too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“If a girl only faints during the presence of others, and never alone, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it is a case of Psychogenic Faint,” said Dr. Mahat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“This condition is like a cry of help, and a way of calling attention upon themselves, and their fears”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He added that such fainting spells <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>normally occur due to the girls’ fear of exams, homework, sexual harassment or threats, parental discord or lack of family support as well as interpersonal relationships.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #984807; font-family: "Georgia", "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha: 100.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #984807; mso-style-textfill-fill-themecolor: accent6; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">He said that while such ‘index’ cases could need counselling, separating them from their peers when the symptoms start is the best way of preventing others from being affected in the same way too. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Mahat said that schools staff could help by reducing attention to the index cases during manifestation of symptoms and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>keeping them away from the group until they return to normal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also need to explore the underlying causes of stress of the girls, practice fearless teaching methodologies and also provide counselling services in schools.</span></div>
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</div>unicef nepalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05034185178478473061noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447149956969618178.post-27688480252019745992012-06-11T06:33:00.003-07:002012-06-12T05:41:14.747-07:00Aurahi rising slowly from the ashes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pictures and Story </span></span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">By Manju Rana</span></span></i></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong>These are the images I took when I visited Aurahi last week, when daytime temperatures were hovering in the mid-40s. I saw work going on nearly a war footing to build temporary toilets in the village, the distribution of relief supplies, and also observed how the men and women (and in some cases animals too) in Aurahi were trying to get back to normalcy. It is difficult though.</strong><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Experts, including UNICEF WASH Specialist<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Madhav Pahari (in white cap) inspect the latrine</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><em><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;">Manju is Senior Communication Assistant in UNICEF Nepal.<br />She can be reached at </span></em><a href="mailto:manrana@unicef.org"><em><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Trebuchet MS; font-size: x-small;">manrana@unicef.org</span></em></a></span></div>
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</div>unicef nepalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05034185178478473061noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447149956969618178.post-74890164912680800402012-06-01T10:31:00.001-07:002012-06-01T11:40:09.912-07:00What I saw and felt in fire-ravaged Aurahi village<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<strong><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pictures and Story </span></span></i><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">By Arinita Maskey Shrestha</span></span></i></strong></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><strong>I reached Aurahi Village Development Committee (VDC) in Siraha three days after the fire of 15 May 2012 had wiped out the settlements in three wards of the VDC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was sweltering hot. The hot May sun beat down upon a village where along with the adobe mud homes, all trees had also been consumed by the fire.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nothing was left to provide shade, other than the blue tarpaulins distributed by relief agencies.</strong></span><br />
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<strong><br />There was destruction and piles of ash and debris everywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The wind that had fanned the 15th May fire still blew strongly, kicking up the ash and dust.</strong></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><strong>The fire had destroyed everything that people owned, their savings, their valuables, their equipment, their clothes, their books, their food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only clothes they had were the ones on their back.</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"><br />The trucks were laden</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> with relief items like sacks of rice, <i>chiura</i> (beaten rice), <i>bhujiya</i> (gram flour savoury)etc. that were being off loaded for distribution.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Food.. that was why they were milling about so eagerly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of them waiting in a nearby shelter away from the 42 degree heat.</span></strong></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><strong>The police were helping in crowd control and distribution along with volunteers from the Nepal Red Cross Society (NRCS). There was a cluster of people talking in loud voice, almost like arguing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems they were trying to ascertain the exact number of households that had been affected.</strong></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><strong>What survived the fire from one clump of debris to the next were items made of concrete, be it the plastered tube well ramps, feeding trough for animals, or structures made with cement and bricks.</strong></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In some places I could see baskets of grains that people had man</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">aged to salvage from these <i>bhakaris</i> made largely of mud and cane using age-old tradition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wondered if the same indigenous technology could be<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>adapted in the construction of the walls as well as the roofing of these homes, so much loss of property could be averted in such fires.</span></strong></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><strong>The temple premise was being used as a temporary health camp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surprisingly, the temple and the trees surrounding had been spared from the all-consuming fire. The locals called it the hand of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></div>
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<strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) of the affected wards had also lost their homes, but were providing their services nevertheless to the needy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another woman I talked to <em>(video clip below)</em> narrated the travails she had gone through in recent years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her husband had been killed in the conflict and she had struggled to make a living to feed her children, one of whom currently had his hand in a cast. </span></strong></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #002060; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><strong>Talking about the fire that now took away everything she owned, she said, she was sleeping in the afternoon, and when her son told here that there were houses burning in the neighbourhood, she went to see how she could help them.. not realising that the fast spreading fire would soon engulf her own home from where she was not able to take out anything. When I questioned the women about where they went to defecate, they just thrust their chins in the direction of the shrubs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></strong></span></div>
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</div>unicef nepalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05034185178478473061noreply@blogger.com4H01, 56500, Nepal26.703906250401882 86.4321899414062526.476938250401883 86.116332941406256 26.930874250401882 86.748046941406244tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3447149956969618178.post-78024049345949110412012-05-27T07:18:00.000-07:002012-05-27T07:58:48.710-07:00Helping Aurahi to rebuild from the ashes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The DDRC with the NRCS, along with local social workers were on the scene first, providing immediate relief needs for shelter, protection and food. </span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KiJ8HnxfSIU/T8Ghuev2T1I/AAAAAAAAAk0/u6LpcDm3pRc/s1600/IMG_6846.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="422" qba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KiJ8HnxfSIU/T8Ghuev2T1I/AAAAAAAAAk0/u6LpcDm3pRc/s640/IMG_6846.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> NRCS volunteers distribution non food items. The tarpaulins they provided to the fire victims can be seen in the backdrop</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV-g_yGw5GufYR_7LajRa_jwdJ72bHktP7m16Do_RGl3Jgj5nr2CsJGH_uoAmrcVbrwN1azLbKFMlMHHX_7_l_ZtCrcKFxSs0lqYAKNUfy1v39-jisJ2iLtGD-PGnY8LJxA9HKW9Y6EBQ/s1600/IMG_6848.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="426" qba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV-g_yGw5GufYR_7LajRa_jwdJ72bHktP7m16Do_RGl3Jgj5nr2CsJGH_uoAmrcVbrwN1azLbKFMlMHHX_7_l_ZtCrcKFxSs0lqYAKNUfy1v39-jisJ2iLtGD-PGnY8LJxA9HKW9Y6EBQ/s640/IMG_6848.JPG" width="640" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">UNICEF and Save the Children staff members had conducted a joint mission along with the District Disaster Relief Committee members in Aurahi to assess the relief needs and gaps. The most urgent needs were that of shelter, food and clothing. Although the two schools located in other wards were spare, the children attending those schools from the affected areas, as well as their teachers, lost all their school supplies. The only clothes that most people had, were the ones on their backs. Below are Arinita Maskey and Bipul Basnet of UNICEF with Dhruba Devkota of Save the Children. </span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZToZdgTD63w/T8GZIEhwDgI/AAAAAAAAAkg/zfkJ-HvpPls/s1600/IMG_6919.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="426" qba="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZToZdgTD63w/T8GZIEhwDgI/AAAAAAAAAkg/zfkJ-HvpPls/s640/IMG_6919.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Anirudra Sharma, who was part of the assessment team had also checked the nutrition status of children and babies in Aurahi. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> The DDRC requested UNICEF to provide hygiene kits, schools kits, medicated bednets, water purification items, clothes for women and children, and also to set up temporary toilets. Save the Children would provide education kits, bathing spaces and safe spaces for children. </span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">UNICEF Eastern Region Field Office in Biratnagar, with support from the Country Office, and in coordination with the UN Field Coordination Unit, sprang into action to meet the immediate needs of the Aurahi fire victims. Below Bipul Basnet, Emegency Focal Point in the Biratnagar field Office begins to check pre-positioned stock. Biratnagar lies about 200 Km east of Siraha. </span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rbf9zw4iwCw/T8Bq51rxKtI/AAAAAAAAAhY/5XnNMwvJ8d0/s1600/bipulji+corrdinating+supply+of+relief+materials.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="482" qba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Rbf9zw4iwCw/T8Bq51rxKtI/AAAAAAAAAhY/5XnNMwvJ8d0/s640/bipulji+corrdinating+supply+of+relief+materials.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Hygiene kits are adjusted to meet the needs of the fire victims</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Clothing items are added to the kits... Everybody pitches in to help.. the office staff too</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> The packed sacks are then ferried to the waiting truck</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> Field office staff, including field office chief, Sunita Kayastha (in far lest) watch the truck being loaded</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2oav34HArkQ/T8Bnic3XY5I/AAAAAAAAAg0/jZSvaDHtMh0/s1600/sirahan+fire+05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="486" qba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2oav34HArkQ/T8Bnic3XY5I/AAAAAAAAAg0/jZSvaDHtMh0/s640/sirahan+fire+05.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">...arranging the sacks...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Next to go in are school kits</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> "Humanitarian relief material for Aurahi fire victims" in UNICEF blue needed to be spelled out boldly on the truck as the <em>terai</em> area is still reeling under <em>banda</em> (closure of roads and businesses) with demands preceding deadline for promulgation of new Constitution in 27 May. The front of the truck...</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z1BG3kRvSGA/T8BrCrH14uI/AAAAAAAAAhw/eCxggpLAbTE/s1600/front+of+truck.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="480" qba="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z1BG3kRvSGA/T8BrCrH14uI/AAAAAAAAAhw/eCxggpLAbTE/s640/front+of+truck.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">.. and back...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The truck finally sets off for Siraha with another UNICEF vehicle in lead.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The supplies, including hygiene kits and longer lasting insecticide nets (LLIN) arrived in Aurahi, and two days later were ready for distribution in the village. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The distribution was systematic and transparent. Anu Gautam helps in the verification of the relief ID card...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">... and then in the distribution of the materials...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Meanwhile relief and maintenance work have been carried out by Save the Children. Below masons and labourers setting up the first of the 20 bathing spaces. </span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G05f5E5DGYY/T8GW5RK-twI/AAAAAAAAAjA/VK7q2UMbhh0/s1600/DSC06257.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="480" qba="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-G05f5E5DGYY/T8GW5RK-twI/AAAAAAAAAjA/VK7q2UMbhh0/s640/DSC06257.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">UNICEF team members, including Madhav Pahari, third from left, sit down with Relief Coordination Committee members, NRCS and Save officials to discuss about the installation of community latrines that UNICEF will support. In order to stop open defecation being practiced in the community, and to control possible outbreak of diseases, with monsoon around the corner, it was decided to immediately build toilets in the affected settlements. Due to lack of space in the settlement, 80 common toilets will be constructed @ two toilets for 10 families (one for males, and the other for females). </span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5YmKInZiR8w/T8GXRHf8lyI/AAAAAAAAAkA/ZbVNcerMbMs/s1600/unicef+staff+with+relied+coordnation+committee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="458" qba="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5YmKInZiR8w/T8GXRHf8lyI/AAAAAAAAAkA/ZbVNcerMbMs/s640/unicef+staff+with+relied+coordnation+committee.jpg" width="640" /></span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763;"> Meanwhile, steps have been taken for a month-long WASH, Health & Nutrition promotion programme in the community. <span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Primary Health Care Centre in Aurahi will distribute 1500 kgs of supplementary food provided by UNICEF through the District Health Office of Siraha to children under 5, lactating and pregnant mothers.</span></span></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l8-jhWd4zkg/T8GzgWJwoyI/AAAAAAAAAlo/n74qaLXZiv0/s1600/IMG_6901.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="426" qba="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l8-jhWd4zkg/T8GzgWJwoyI/AAAAAAAAAlo/n74qaLXZiv0/s640/IMG_6901.jpg" width="640" /></span></a><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #073763;">Today the Boys in Blue had a match with Chowdhary Group in the T20 Corporate Premier League Tournament. After the performance of their first match and the damage to muscles of the main players had made many think that the match would be a wipe out... but today the Boys played better-- batted better, bowled and fielded better too... even if it meant the main players, including Binoy and Will hobbled about.. Will for the entire innings...</span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Will and Binoy follow the CG team to the crease...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">The day was a beautiful one.. with clear blue skies and a mild breeze...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Binoy with the bat. Today they had decided not to go for singles, rather concentrate on shots for boundary..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> CG bowler in action as Will looks on...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Will and Krishna stayed on the crease for the remaining overs. Running less between the wicket and concentrating more on trying to send the ball beyond the ropes...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Will & Krishna celebrate the partnership of 50 runs</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Krishna drives...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">... and taps...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> </span><span style="color: #073763;"> Will lobs...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">.. and sweeps...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> All reflected in Balaram's glasses</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Captain Binoy says,"With better fielding we could have won yesterday!"</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Finally the target for the blue and yellow team to chase.. 116. Will and Krishna were both not out at 54 and 40 respectively</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> A Herculean task for the <em>dosro pramukh</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> .. and his <em>sarathi</em>.. Krishna!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> .. the official cameraperson.. with her hardware</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> lunch break for the team members...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> .. and then back to the oval for fielding...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Will says he always does things and like things in 3s.. including the 3 paracetamol tablets he took before going to the crease!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Sushil bowls from the pavilion end...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Krishna in the sidelines.. the new Ayurvedic campus in the back</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Narendra ready for a catch</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Binoy is the crouching tiger</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> ... an appeal to the umpire</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> .. Sushil bowls again...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Will comes to cheer the team from the sidelines</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> The Boys in Blue were very slick with their fielding today.. except for the odd fumble...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Bibek chases a ball that slips over the ropes for a four</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">.. soon he knocks off the left stump... a wicket down...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> .. celebration...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Team Manager Yendra is all smiles as he prepares to pump in glucose water to his players...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Bibek, the one with a wicket under his belt...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Junior Sunar clicks his dad in action at the crease...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Break time...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> ... then Will was invited to be a guest commentator...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">... and he did a pretty good job!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">.. Meanwhile the Boys in Blue battle on... here's Binoy behind the wicket...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Sushil's still at it.. trying to get a wicket...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Balaram waits for ball to come to him...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> ... Pradiumna on the side...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> UNICEF support team 'neath the tent...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> CG reached the total with the loss of just a single wicket...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> .. the umpires head back for the pavilion..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> .. and the Boys in Blue shake hands with those in red and yellow...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> .. and that was the stint of Corporate Cricket for 2012 for the UNICEF Blues team...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">It was a nice day, not too sunny, a bit overcast. It was UNICEF's turn to be on the crease opposite Agni Air team in the Wai Wai T20 Corporate Premier League cricket. This is part of the activities by the Public Private Partnership to promote handwashing with soap. Every break, boundary, when the commentator kept quiet, the cricket ground at Kirtipur resounded with the handwashing with soap jingle! The logo of soap water and hand were everywhere.</span></h3>
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<span style="color: #073763;">The UNICEF Blues team members had been stealing time here and there between office work and meetings to practice at the nets. Here they are warming and stretching before the match...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">The boys in blue try to loosen their muscles...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Captain Binoy Lama has a word about their strategy...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Will Parks (in white hat) puts in a word...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Sporting the handwashing logo.. Captain Binoy lama</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> <em>Dosro Pramukh</em> Will stretches out...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> The commentator announces the beginning of the match... Agni Air opts to bat first...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Our boys in blue (with a little one in red) are in high spirit as they gather before the game begins</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Our cheerleaders are all ready...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">.. flags waving...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">... all branded with handwashing logo...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">... some looking more glamorous than others...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">... there were children from a local school who came in to watch the match...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">... ready to wave placards and flags...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">The final photo session...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> .. and eager shutterbugs...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Huddle huddle.. let's brew trouble..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Agni Air boys get ready near the handwashing station...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Umpire checks the stumps... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Kaustuv is ready by the ropes...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> And Krishna bowls the first ball</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">Binoy stretches behind the wickets...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> The boys manage to give away a lot of extras, and then take two wickets in quick succession..</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> The pavilion erupts in whistles and cheers...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Action...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Binoy repositioning fielders...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Action!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Another wicket dismissed....</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Pradiumna waits by the ropes</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">... Hoping to knock off the bails... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> ... Another Agni Air player heads for the pavilion...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> John waits for the ball to head his way...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Agni Air scored a whopping 198, leaving the UNICEF Blues to chase a total of 199!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Captain and team come in for the break</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Some water....</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> ... Some family closeness...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> ... and some food...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">The target to chase...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> ... <em>dosro bradman</em>... waits for his buddy Binoy before heading for the crease...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> ... and Will gets into action...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> ... and so does Binoy...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> ... The weather was very kind... just rightly overcast.. and hint of a drizzle that wafted away with the breeze... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Will sweeps...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Binoy waits...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> ... and waits...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;">paparazzi on the <em>machan</em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Will misses a strike...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Binoy first returned to the pavilion with a pulled muscles.. and then it was Will's turn to wince...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Binoy tries to nurse his injured foot...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Our wickets fell steadily, as the runs barely trickled in...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> And soon it was over...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Agni Air won the match by 103 runs!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> The team are still in a good mood... and looking forward to tomorrow!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"> Award ceremony brings an end to the day's match!!! Howzzat?</span></div>
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