Namaste dear friends of EPSA Nepal

It has been a six month since you last heard from us and a lot of good things have happened.

Here in our EPSA home, we are sad to tell you that due to Covid-19 our livelihood activities & our daily work have been interrupted since some customers’ had to cancel their orders, and we had more difficulty to get materials and go to handicraft fairs due to lock down since March 2020.

But also, during Covid –19 so many good things happened here in our Home.

Firstly in April we completed our compound inside of home so that nowadays we are more safe with handrails and security fence along the boundary which stopped the unnecessary people using our land for shortcut.

When the community worked on the water supply pipe,repair the lane and sewage connection, they helped us to connect the EPSA centre section into the road.

For the whole of June, people from the local community helped us to improve the track to our front gate, building a retaining wall which enabled the road to be made wider. Since we are the last house on the lane, when they cast road slab to reach us, they also made road for their own houses.

Some of our access difficulties since 2018

During Covid, many friends from different parts of the world have helped us, in the absence of support from government. Different friends, individuals and organisations have supported us in different ways with food, vegetables, medicine, health and hygiene etc

Below are some of those who supported us in this difficult time.

Some individual Org. & friends from Nepal

Nepalese Politician, Social worker & past Minister Ek Nath Dhakal donated food stuff.
4 Tarkeswor Municipality gave us 3 bags rice, 2 kg salt, 3 litres of oil.
SKY Memorial Foundation Chairman, Mr Dorji Tsering Sherpa provided 25 packages for 25 girls two times.
Rotary Club of Kathmandu Nepal, Asterisk International Services Pvt Ltd Chairman Naryan Krishna Kharel provided food and Nrs 6000 for buying.
Fair Trade Group Nepal President Chitra Bahadur KC. donated food package.
Life Insurance Company Nirmal Adhikari provided food package.
CBM UK sent food package of rice, oil, daal etc.
Supreme Master Hueigung Shi made Nrs 50,000 donation for emergency purchases, and also food stuff.
National Rehabilitation Centre Chairman, Mr Ram Prasad Dhungana gave health equipment to 13 residential ladies.
National Federation of the Disabled Nepal NFDN Nepal gave some hand soap,Mask and sanitary pads.
Mr Ang Kaji Sherpa, politician gave individual food packages of rice, daal & oil.
Pranic Healing Nepal gave financial support food & healthcare.
Fair Trade Group Nepal Lalitpur provided donation NPR 25000 for skill training to make 3D face masks.

International support from our friends & family.,

Urgyen Wangchuck donated Canadian $1405 for food, health and hygiene, and raw materials to instigate face mask making in June/July 2020.
Nina and Jeff Highfill sent Swiss Franc 400 in July 2019 for urgent purchases.
Chantal Krogner from Germany sent Nrs 54,000 in June and Nrs 21,000 in August for emergency purchases
Astrid Beseler from Fondation Audrey Jacobs sent Nrs 3 lakh to Sangita to Stablish a Buffalo farm in Gorkha in june 2020.

Access road and our compound paving work during

Covid-19 lockdown

The completed access road and compound entrance in August

We thank you so much our dear friends and family. You kindness & compassion and kind consideration towards us during these lockdown times. Because of your help we were able to run our centre to manage food and medicine expenses, health hygiene & start face mask production.

Otherwise it would have been very hard to survive, since our livelihood is greatly affected. Lockdown has again resumed but thanks to friends we have some orders for new work. Your support encouraged & saved our lives here. We hope we will again get orders and support all the ladies with difficulties to stay out of poverty. Our prayers for you all for your good health & happiness. Looking forward to welcome you all in our EPSA Home soon.

EPSA News letter August 2020