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.. and with confidence, the women in the village sell their organic vegetables, including through brokers. The women in the village also manage the organic cultivation themselves.
Many thanks to Fair Styria for supporting the marketing and to the Schöck Family Foundation for supporting the model farms.
…and supporting young students are part of our scholarship holder Binu’s student life. She is already in her third year and is looking forward to applying her knowledge of earthquake-proof construction herself in the future.
Many thanks to SI Vienna Vivata for supporting Binu.
.. plays a central role in the cooperative, primarily coordinating joint marketing activities. It is not always easy to motivate the women in the four villages to work together on their future.
In any case, we are very impressed by how much she has developed personally in recent years.
Many thanks to Fair Styria for supporting marketing in the villages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTnyfLetGhI
…are the regular discussions with the scholarship holders and their mothers. It is a new situation for everyone that the girls are continuing their education after Year 12 and thus taking control of their lives.
It is not always easy for parents to support their daughters financially, but together we have always found a good way forward.
Many thanks to our sponsors, without whom the girls would not be able to follow this path.
..the leaders of all four villages met to report on the past year and discuss the future.
From 2026 onwards, the villages will run the cooperative and the model farms independently, with the SWI and RFL team supporting the women one last time.
Many thanks to the Schoeck Family Foundation for its long-term support of the farms.
..to support the goals in the field of organic vegetable and rice cultivation was the aim of a workshop in Kolkata.
After the team from Nepal visited several local projects, representatives from seven organisations exchanged ideas and discussed the challenges they face.
Many thanks to the Schoeck Family Foundation for funding the workshop.
..was the score achieved by our scholarship holder Sumana in her exams for the second year of her nursing training. This is fantastic, especially as she had to retake everything in her third year of training due to the unrest in the autumn, when her first exam was also destroyed in the fires.
We congratulate her and wish her all the best for the future. Many thanks to the individual private sponsor who is making this training possible for her.
If you are interested in sponsoring a student, please send us a message at office@rootsforlife.info.
..at the model farm in Chyangsar. In addition to vegetables and seed production, more fruit can be harvested each year. Alongside apples and kiwis, this year there is a bountiful harvest of persimmons for the first time.
Palm kale was new to the women, so Carola organised a small cooking class and together they created Nepalese dishes.
Many thanks to the Schöck Family Foundation for making this project possible!
..the women talk about their experiences in front of the others.
Many thanks to the Schöck Family Foundation for supporting the women in the villages.
https://youtu.be/UtZh0RM_JU8
.. are proud of their daughters who are continuing their education in Kathmandu. Even though many women in the village can hardly imagine what that means exactly, they are genuinely happy for the girls.
At the same time, we consciously seek dialogue with the parents in order to be able to accompany and support the girls in Kathmandu well, especially since they are often alone there for the first time.
Many thanks to our sponsors who make this possible.
