Below are the links to 2 awesome organizations that were started by some of the people I have met so far: one, a couple from Denver who absolutely love Nepal and work to help provide shoes and boots for the local tracking guides. I met them in the airport in Dubai and they gave me some great advice about Nepal. They brought 25 bags this time, filled with donations (their biggest load yet)!! The organization is called Shoes For Sherpas. www.shoesforsherpas.org
The other is Filmmakers without Borders, started my my roommate Beth and her friend. They send Filmmakers to other countries and use filmmaking as a creative teaching tool for empowerment of children. Some of the kids in her Nepali classroom had never seen a camera before and had never seen themselves on a screen. developingfilmmakers.org
Their work is so inspiring and incredibly creative and it makes me think about all of the awesome opportunities for international development.
P.S. I am still trying to figure out the blogging thing on the iPad so I apologize for the photos below being attached to the wrong blog post...technical difficulties.
VIN office, where most of my work is being done now.
Omba! A fruit I haven never tries before but it's delicious. It's sort of gooey inside but it's so yummy and sweet.
A view from the top of the hotel in Thamel.
We learned how to write our names in Nepali. My name is written at the top.
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