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  • Account Name- CREASION Nepal/ VFC
  • Bank Name: Nepal Investment Bank Ltd
  • A/C No.: 02102050250474
  • Swift Code: NIBLNPKT
  • District/ City: Kathmandu
  • Country: Nepal

Interventions

Permanent Housing

At the very heart of the Rebuild for Change initiative, and indeed Nepali culture, lies the household with its integral role as both family-home, economic foundation and lifetime investment.

VFC will build affordable earthquake-proof homes for 67 families in Manegaun, Burunchuli - all based on Natural building principles focusing primarily on earthbag construction.

Natural Building Principles

A natural building includes a scope of building system and materials that place significant emphasis on sustainability. To be more sustainable, natural building uses basically abundantly available, renewable, reused or recycled materials.

EARTHBAG CONSTRUCTION

Earthbag construction has the tremendous advantage of providing either thermal mass or insulation, depending on the content. When filled with soil they provide thermal mass, but when filled with lighter weight materials, such as crushed stone, or rice hulls, they provide insulation. The bags can even act as natural non-wicking, somewhat insulated foundations when they are filled with gravel.

The fill material is cheap, especially if on-site soil is used. The earthbags themselves can often be purchased as misprints or recycled grain sacks, but even when new are not particularly expensive. It is easy to learn and use.

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Education

VIDYA (education) has always been a core principle with Volunteers for Change.

However, VFC approaches education in a distinctive manner where the creative ability to analyse and question outweighs traditional methods of memorization - imparting the values of logic and critical thinking.

We believe in the creation of an analytically aware youth to inspire individual unfoldment while countering prejudice and prejudgement.

Education: So what are we doing?

In essence our efforts can be distilled into two categories: construction and community engagement.
  • Early Childhood Centre Development (ECCD) equipped for the children aged below 5
  • Literacy Campaigns directed to the population and provision of various vocational trainings
  • Capacity building trainings to the teachers of Shree Bhimsen Secondary School & improvement of its facilities
  • Computer Classes for the children and youth
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Socio-economic development

Soft Loans

provide local communities with soft loans for small and medium enterprises (SME’s) – be it livestock, poultry farming, goat rearing or shopkeeping or to improve the existing ones ; the loans will be disbursed through an agro-based cooperative that will be created

Home Stay

provide different types of tourism and hospitality related trainings to develop the community’s capacity to accommodate tourist in their houses. research viable options to strengthen and promote the Homestay locally and internationally.

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Agriculture/Livestock bank/ Free Range animals

  • Trainings/ Capacity Building
  • Infrastructure Development
  • Soft Loans
  • Community Engagement
  • Introduction of New Technologies

Small/Medium Scale Enterprises

Engage the community in:

  • Pickle and Jam
  • Tailoring
  • Beauty Parlours
  • Grocery stores
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Health, Sanitation & Water

VFC, in partnership with Alka Hospital of Lalitpur, and TIlganga Eye Hospital, organised two health camps at Burunchuli to assess the main cause of illness and to be able to define the type of trainings on basic health and sanitation that could be given to the community.

  • Regular health check ups
  • Nutrition and health diets
  • Health card to every household
  • Local midwife training
  • PTSD sessions (Hug and Heal)

We will provide new toilets to those who need improvement in their health and sanitation conditions and spread awareness through training programs.

We will also repair and improve the condition of already existing water-sources for drinking, construction of a pipe for irrigation.

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Energy

In order to secure the needs of our local community, and realising our own vision for sustainability, we are introducing several approaches to alternative energy

Introducing improved cooking-stoves, to reduce the use firewood for cooking purposes which causes emission of gases, harmful to human health and environment alike.

implementing cost-effective solar power technologies for the street lighting system

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Community Based Facilities

Pandhero

Over half the population of Nepal lacks the basic knowledge of what constitutes good hygiene practice. Only 37% of people in Nepal wash their hands with water  and just 12% use soap.

As our survey strongly suggests, we will build 2 pandheros (community based drinking and washing facilities) with attached bathroom, that would function as pillars for local women. Empowering women empowers all aspects of community

Multifunctional Hall

We will construct a Multifunctional Community Centre, based entirely on our Natural Building Principles, complete with a library, musical instruments and sporting-goods, where the Early Childhood Development Centre (ECDC) and all the other trainings will take place during our project. (See: Education and Socio-Economic Development.)

Park & Paved Pathways

We will renovate the green area of the village, equipping it with benches in order to transform it into a public garden, or small park. We will furthermore pave the walking paths of the village, as a further means to integrate the community in the daily life. When designing these facilities we keep both tourist and the community in mind - especially children.

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