Packing Cloths for Cold Hit People in Terai, Nepal

Packing Cloths for Cold Hit People in Terai, Nepal

OFFICIAL VISIT OF MSH TEAM WITH HASILO NEPAL

By Jeena Dangol

MySmallHelp, Nepal had an official visit with Hasilo Nepal on 3rd JAN 2012 for the possible collaboration. Hasilo Nepal is an organization that organize dental health camps. MSH is thankful to Karen and Aparna didi for providing 100 pcs of toothbrush to our charity.

Nova Budhathoki happy receiving Christmas gifts

Nova is 8 years old. She is a very cute and innocent girl. She has been promoted tograde one this year in Shanti Nikunja School. Currently she is studying veryb hard as her Second Terminal exam is going on. She was successful to secure second position during her last First Terminal Exam.  As she grows up she is improving in her studies.







During her spare time she loves playing with dolls and watching cartoons. Her favorite subject is Nepali. She aims to be a Nepali teacher in the future. She is also very thankful to sponsor Kirstie and happy to get the winter clothes provided by MSH, Nepal. Her mother seems very happy and thankful to MySmall Help, Nepal.  She is very happy and thankful to get the Christmas gift. We provided her school bag,hair clip, winter jacket,soap, story book and hanky as well as winter clothes to her twin sister too. Nova loves the story book very much and promised us to recite the story in our next visit. 

Winter Clothes Campaign for the victim of Cold Wave in the Terai Region of Nepal

By: Jeena Dangol

This winter proved to be harmful in some part of the Terai Region of Nepal like Sundhuli, Chitwan, Lumbini, Rautahat, Sarlahi and Saptari etc. Cold wave already caused the death of more than 50 people due to lack of proper clothing and housing in remote part of the Terai region. This news really touched the heart of the people in the city. So MySmallHelp Nepal in co-operation with Gwarko Development Committee, organized 6 days campaign from 27^th December 2011 to 1^st January 2012. 

The clothes were collected through door to door collection as well as a small booth in the Gwarko chowk where people can drop their clothes to support. This campaign had successfully collected nearly two Lorries of winter clothes from local citizens.

MSH Team as well as one of the mother groups of Gwarko really worked hard to filter out the clothes as per the gender and size so that they can be distributed easily to the respective group in the affected area. MSH Team really wants to thank Mr. Prabin Man Shrestha one of the members of MySmallHelp, Mother Group as well as members of Gwarko Development Committee to run the campaign successfully. The collected clothes were distributed last week by the members of the Gwarko Development Committee. MySmallHelp hopes that this small effort may help the people living in Terai to some extent to prevent themselves from this natural disaster. It is estimated that the collected clothes will benefit more than 500 families in the affected area.

Fusion Rock Musical Concert

by: Jeena Dangol

WE International organized a musical concert on 1^st JAN 2012 to honor our dear member Mr. Amir K.C. who died in accident on 20^th DEC 2011. The concert was named as Fusion Rocks and the main motto of this event was to entertain people by fusing the Nepali folk music with the western music. Nepal's most popular and talented bands like Trikaal, Anuprastha, Rock Sitar and Murchana were the performer of the evening. They really entertained the mass at Basantapur Durbar Square. The event begins at 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. 

WE International was very kind and supportive to MSH Nepal by donating the amount of Rs. 80000 to the charity MSH Nepal. MySmallHelp is heartily thankful and grateful to WE International Team, Mr. Samir K.C and Mr. Prabin Man Shrestha for their kind support. There were many volunteers, security guards controlling the huge mass. Everybody had a special New Year evening and the crowd was hooting to perform Anuprastha once more. The Basantapur Durbar Square was charged with amazing focus lights and changing its view as heaven with the arrangement of musical lights, flying lantern and the instruments. MSH Nepal prayed for the peace of heavenly soul of Mr. Amir K.C. and promised to do a project dedication him in the near future.

THIRD BIKE STUNT SHOW AND MUSICAL CONCERT FOR CHARITY

by: Jeena Dangol

Third Bike Stunt Show And  Musical Concert For Charity was organized by 19 souls in association with Pako Youth Club on 3^rd DEC 2011 at Satdobato swimming pool from 2p.m. to 5 p.m. The main motto of the event was to show the bike stunt to the young generation and to make aware of the safety techniques about the stunt. Also one of the popular bands of Nepal named as Albatross had  entertained the crowd. The main guest of the show was Mr. Trilochan and Mr. Mandeep Singh (winners of the 3^rd MTV Stuntmania) from India. They showed the amazing stunts and entertained the crowd. Nepali bike stunners also showed their talent and proved that Nepalese can also be the part of the bike stunt mania. 

Mr. Raju the president of MySmallHelp Nepal had represented the charity by giving short speech about the charity and had welcomed all the visitors and thanked the organizer for arranging such a special event for charity.  The swimming pool premise was full of youngsters with positive attitude towards the event. They really enjoyed the show and hope to see next event soon in the near future.

Leonel Update

 Leonel Update

Peru

This year, the Peruvian government issued a new policy of "integration", stating that children with a variety of special needs would, in march, be integrated into the regular school system. In someways this will be very positive, but everyone is a little wary of this new policy as teachers, students and families have had little to no
time to prepare. Leonel, for example, is a 6 year old child who has been deaf since birth, and currently attends the special needs school run by Kiya Survivors in Urubamba, Peru. He is one of the students who is benefiting from the transport service run by MySmallHelp, as he lives about 15 minutes from Ollantaytambo and uses the bus to get to school everyday. Leonel doesn't speak and barely knows any sign language. His parents have never had enough money to pay for his hearing aids. Leonel is a very bright and extremely active six year old, but without any linguistic skills, entering first grade in March is going to be extremely difficult.


Thanks to very generous donations from friends and family in Canada, I was able to take Leonel to the clinic on Monday, we bought his hearing aid! On the doctor’s recommendation, he’s only using one at the moment, and only at school, where the teachers can keep an eye on him as he gets used to wearing it.

Learning to speak is going to be a long and difficult process at his age, but last night I went for dinner (roast guinea pig) at his house with his whole family, we went through how to use and care for the hearing aids, and different activities they can to with him to help develop his speech. I believe I have also found a speech therapist who will be able to work with him once a week.

Leonel has been amazing about having the hearing aid in. He’s taking good care of it, taking the batteries out and storing it everyday after school. He gives me a huge smile and points to his ear every time I come visit, so proud that he’s keeping it safe. His mom says that he’s become more vocal, even when he’s at home. Over the Christmas holidays he’s going to take the hearing aid home for the first time and his whole family has committed to making sure he uses it and stores it properly.  They’re all very curious about this faraway group of people who have come together to provide something so important to their family. I always tell them how lucky I am, to know
so many amazing people in so many places, and they of course agree. The hearing aids are just a small step towards the eventual goal of him being able to communicate like any other child his age, but with his intelligence and energy, we're all sure he can carry the project the rest of the way.