… of some farms from above. The houses in the individual villages are very different. This is mainly due to the location. Where there are roads, the houses can be built more elaborately. But even the large houses are unheated and often have open fires.
What everyone now has are greenhouses, which they can use to grow different types of vegetables.
Many thanks to the Schöck Family Foundation for supporting the project.
… at the hostel are very proud of their own vegetables. They have lovingly tended their own beds and produced their own organic compost and fertiliser.
Cooking their own vegetables is a good basis for a healthy life.
We are proud of the girls’ independence and wish them continued success at school and in the garden.
Many thanks to Schoeck Family Foundation for supporting the hostel.
… is in great demand, especially at small markets. This is also a test run to see which products are accepted and how.
The aim is to find ‘fans’ for the organic products, who can also be supplied directly by the co-operative in future.
In future, products will also be sold via the website www.solusisters.org.
Many thanks to Fair Styria for supporting this important project.
… the girls at the hostel received a surprise visit from Robin Schöck, Managing Director of the Schöck Family Foundation. This was of course very exciting, as they were allowed to proudly show off their house and garden immediately after their final exams. Of course they also harvested and cooked for the guests.
Many thanks to Schoeck Family Foundation for supporting the hostel.
… of the girls at the hostel was a storage box where they could keep their personal belongings. Previously these were only in bags, there are no boxes in the hostel.
These were made in Kathmandu and brought to Sallerie together with seat cushions.
We are delighted for the girls and thank Schoeck Family Foundation for supporting the hostel.
… is the idea of processing pumpkins. Until now, some of them were eaten but most were fed to the animals. They grow everywhere, even on slopes that cannot be used for other vegetables. Now they are collected from all the villages and processed in Ghunsa.
Dried and possibly as flour, they can be used for soups, curries, but also bread and cakes. The market for these long-life products is to be developed, especially in the accommodation centres on trekking routes and in Kathmandu.
Many thanks to Fair Styria, which supports the marketing of the products.
… the girls not only received the self-made school dresses but also rucksacks and umbrellas. The umbrellas were particularly popular. They are valuable not only against the rain and sometimes the sun, but also as a “defence” against leeches that fall from the trees during the rainy season.
Many thanks to our sponsors, whose contribution provides the girls with everything they need to go to school. The results, which are improving every year, show what the girls are capable of. We wish them all the best for the future.
… per village who can produce enough and want to market it together were selected. They receive intensive support to help them get started in marketing.
Until now, they have only sold individually in the village or perhaps once at a local market. Doing this together is a completely new form for the women and we hope that they will be able to generate more income together in the future.
Many thanks to the Schöck Familienstiftung, which makes the operation of the model farms and the support possible, and to Fair Styria, which supports the project for marketing.
… the co-operative’s managers can now generate and print out important lists and documents on their computers. Each model farm was given a computer and a printer for this purpose. The managers meet regularly and familiarise themselves with the work together. It’s also more fun ?
It is not easy for the women to make friends with the medium, but it helps them to take over the management of the cooperative themselves.
Harvests can be recorded for marketing purposes, applications can be made to the authorities and the accounts can be kept.
We are proud of the great results and thank Schöck Family Foundation for the financial support of the co-operative and its model farms.
… our scholarship holder Binu from Changsar has settled in well at the technical university. She is the first girl from our 4 villages in Solukhumbu to make it this far. Her dream is to improve the infrastructure of her country as a civil engineer.
We wish her continued success and thank the Club SI Wien Vivata for their great support.
