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Date: 3/6/12

Hub name: Nepal

Title of Case Study: Pani Piasa Fundraiser

We have been holding the sports program at our Street

Childrens Rehabilitation Project for quite a while now.

People and clubs have helped out from abroad to supply

the children with playing bibs, footballs, and winter

scarves and hats for those cold game days. As much as all

this has brightened the faces of the kids and made their

games more enjoyable (its not so fun playing football

without balls although these kids would find a way),weve been noticing more and more foot injuries. Playing

barefoot or in flimsy sandals for so long is starting to take

a toll on quite a few toes.

It has also been brought to our attention by the Principal of

Little Daffodils English Boarding School (the school where

we hold our teaching project) that many women in the

surrounding village have either only had a few years of

schooling or none at all so the illiteracy rate amongst

women in the village is extremely high. We made thesuggestion to Principal Lekhnath that we could hold a

womens class in the newly built office building in the

afternoons and without hesitation we were given the

schools complete support. So now that we have an

office/classroom we now need to be able to furnish it. A

large table and 3 bench seats is all we need to be able to get

started on this community project.

With these 2 projects in mind we began to brainstorm ideas for a fundraising event. It didnt take long beforePani Piasa (Nepali for Water Money) was born. The volunteers in country were just as excited as us in the

prospect of competing in such an event.

We picked three teams of three out of a hat

and their first tasks were to pick a team name

and a team colour, make a team mascot and

flag, and advertise the event and its great cause

to their friends and families.

Team USA The Pink Panthers

The Street Kids warming up during our Sports Program w

volunteers

Little Daffodils

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On the day the teams had to set up their boats and get ready at the starting line.

The teams were to head out to Tel Barahi Temple Island and row around the

island once before picking up a Himalayan Encounters staff member and theirteams coloured water that had been poured into three plastic cups per team. They then were to row around

the island again and head into shore all without trying to spill a drop of

their coloured water. Once the teams had arrived back at the finishing

line they were awarded points for their placing in the race, how much

water they still had on board and for their team mascots and flags being

intact and still in their boats by the end of the race. As luck would have it

all three teams finished with the same amount of points so a draw

breaker was to be held to decide our final winner. After a small issue with

a false start the draw breaker was finally under way and all teams

channelled their competitive sides.

Team USA ended up taking top honours and all involved had an amazing day.

Thanks to volunteers May, Harry, Will, Maya, Katie, Sanju, Billie, Marion, and Natalia we have managed to

raise 306 which is only 44 short of our 350 target. We are so close to be able to provide proper sports

shoes for the kids and begin a much needed class in a small village community.

If you would like to help us out with reaching our target or with any of our other fundraising events please

follow this link: www.justgiving.com/help-disadvantaged-children-and-adults-in-nepal

And if you would like to see more pictures of the Pani Piasa event as well as what else we get up to in Pokhara

Nepal please go to our blog: www.gvinepal@blogspot.com

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Theyre off and racing!