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… you can also get a feel for the location of the model farms. The stone-paved road in Merangding is new. This is a great improvement for the village, as it makes it much easier to reach during the monsoon.
Many thanks to Schoeck Family Foundation for supporting the model farms.
… 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.
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… we are all delighted with the success of the first tree nursery. As there had never been a tree nursery of this kind before, it was an experiment and also a risk. But the grafted trees are developing well and soon fruit will also be available on the family farms. This will enrich the children’s diet in particular.
In the future, these fruit trees can also be sold and thus generate income for the women of the co-operative.
We are delighted and would like to thank Schoeck Family Foundation for supporting this project.
… 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.
… 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.
… a piece of land was added to the model farm in Merangding. Most of the grafted fruit trees come from Ghunsa, and the resulting wood can be used for fencing and other work on the model farm.
We are delighted with the village about the first mixed orchard and hope that it will flourish
Many thanks to the Schöck Family Foundation for their generous financial support.
… local skills and opportunities means training the women so that they can sew the girls’ school dresses themselves in future. After the compulsory part, there is also training for other women’s clothing, which they are of course particularly pleased about.
For the first time, the school dresses for our approximately 140 girls will be sewn by the women of the cooperative.
This creates another opportunity to generate income but also to sew for the family. Each model farm has a sewing workshop that is available to the women.
We would like to congratulate and thank our sponsors for supporting the girls and their mothers.
… fruit trees are now also being grafted at the Ghunsa tree nursery. Almonds, apples and walnut trees are grafted onto local rootstocks. This is completely new for the women, it doesn’t always work, but the first successes can be celebrated.
The trees for the new orchard in Mergangding have already been provided by Ghunsa.
Many thanks to the Schoeck Family Foundation and the private sponsors who made this possible.
… the girls from the villages can now live and learn in the new hostel in Sallerie. It is important to us that they not only finish school, but also learn other important skills. Cohesion, organisation, vegetable growing, cooking with regional vegetables according to old recipes and much more. They have now planted fields to grow their own vegetables.
We wish you a good harvest ?
Many thanks to the Schoeck Family Foundation for making it possible to run the hostel.
… the school dresses for all villages are sewn by the women themselves. In 2 workshops (Merangding and Kunikhop), a few women each receive training on how to measure, cut and sew. The school dresses are then produced as part of the training.
In addition to training for the future, the hard-working seamstresses also receive a wage for the finished school dresses.
This means that the added value for the school dresses of our protégés remains in the villages.
Here are the first steps in Kunikhop.
Many thanks to all sponsors who make this particularly sustainable purchase possible ?
