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JUNE 2013 - Monthly Update from Kehi Garoun

6/30/2013

Quotation of the month

Only when we understand the true relationship between each other is there a possibility of love, and love is denied when we have images. Therefore it is important to understand, not intellectually but actually in your daily life, how you have built images about your wife, your husband, your neighbor, your child, your country, your leaders, your politicians, your gods - you have nothing but images. - Freedom from the Known,92

June's Highlights

We are organizing the Happy Tummy program - Juka (stomach worm) awareness presentation and free medicine distribution.
The One Thing, a book by Gary Keller, was the topic of discussion and reflection for Kehi Garoun Staff on a Friday afternoon.
Kehi Garoun strives to make its office a learning environment for all its staff. To that end, we have started having sessions on improving presentation skills.
We met with ECS media house's team to discuss value alignment, content generation and collaboration.
60 students were helped this month.

Lives we touched...

Sushma Magar is a diligent student in Adarsha School, (Chabhil). She is the only child. Her father left her and her mother to fend for themselves when Sushma was very young. Her mother works as a maid in multiple homes, she struggles to buy educational supplies for her daugher. Sushma herself often goes to help her mother to complete her maid's chores. She wishes...(read more)

KARISHMA KESHARI TULADHAR

6/30/2013

"I started volunteering in KG because I like the idea of responsibility. I realized that it is a message of hope that should be shared with other individuals so that we can collectively bring about changes in the society."
Karishma Keshari Tuladhar, Ullen's Cirlce

sarah subba

6/30/2013

""Change starts within you; you don't need to go far to help the needy; look around your own community, your neighborhood, your city, your surroundings. KG has enabled and facilitated many individuals and young students from private schools to turn their ideas into complimentary actions...with 7 years on the go, I'm proud to be part of the change that KG instigates and inspires!" "
Sarah Subba is a KG Team member who has involved every member of her family in spreading smiles. This included her baby daughter, whose birthday celebration includes gifts to other children in need.
"I was excited to hear that KG managed to leverage our gift by 4 times...so instead of helping 8 students, more that 30 students were helped,' she said. At the end, her contribution went to provide stationary to 37 students in Bal Bikash School, Kuleshwor School, Nepal Rastriya School, Panchakanya School and Rani Devi School.

A Walk for Pledges

6/13/2013

With months of hardwork and dedication, Ullens KG Circle organized the “Merai Desh, Merai Dayitwa: Walk for Yourself” walkathon program on 28th April 2013. It was targeted towards youth who would take the responsibility for their society and their future. Some of the things mentioned in the responsibility pledges were: to drive safely, follow traffic rules, refrain from cheating in exams, refrain from giving or taking bribes. The walk started from Asan chowk and ended in Tarini School at Makhan.

Be Inspired - by Lincoln

6/12/2013

1. ON TRUTH
"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."
2. ON READING
"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems."
3. ON FRIENDSHIP
"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
4. ON GOVERNMENT
"The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves - in their separate, and individual capacities."
5. ON EDUCATION
"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."

6. ON LIBERTY
"Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere."

Plum Tree, A gift from a KG Member

6/12/2013

Plum tree, a gift from a kg member, being planted by kavita

MAY 2013 - Monthly Update from Kehi Garoun

6/5/2013

Quotation of the month

Only the individual can change, not the mass - "I am talking to the individual because only the individual can change, not the mass; only you can transform yourself, and so the individual matters infinitely. I know it is the fashion to talk about groups, the mass, the race, as though the individual had no importance at all, but in any creative action it is the individual who matters. Any true action, any important decision, the search for freedom, the inquiry after truth, can only come from the individual who ....is trying to understand ...a creative entity, a free person, unconditioned, capable of pursuing truth for itself and not for a result." - JK

Month's Highlight

We distributed stationery to the area coordinators of 25 schools.
We carried out a stationery program impact discussion among teachers.
We also developed a Marketing Plan to expand our outreach in 2013.

Photo Stories

Stationery Impact Discussion Program, Adarsha School- Naxal

First Phase Stationery Distribution

Institutional Updates

Inflow of Rs. 300,000 (includes Rs. 137,500 loan to print notebooks) against outlfow of Rs 220,000 (includes an electricity back-up system (Rs 31,000) and monthly payment of an office projector (Rs 10,000)).
Ankit Acharya has joined Kehi Garoun Team as a full time volunteer. Karan Pratap Shah, an intern from Symbosis, completed his tenure of 1 month, and gifted printed marketing material to Kehi Garoun.

ASIAN PHARMA- 2013 GROUP

6/5/2013

In a presentation conducted by Miru Vaidya, 43 professionals of Asian Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. sponsored more than Rs. 46,000 to sponsor children who are in dire need of educational supplies. We would like to thank the following Gift Angels for supporting more than 65 children who need stationery to continue their education.

The Angels are :Sachin Dev Singh, Ustav Gurung, Sandeep Paudel, Chardeep Joshi, Sadhana Karki, Ganesh Pokhrel, Rajendra Regmi, Dinesh Gautam, Dipak Kumar Jha, Murari Adhikari, Subodh Gautam, Shrawan Shrestha, Bishnu Acharya, Monika Shrestha, Manoj Neupane, Faguni Mahato, Anup Paudel, Ashish Khadka, Raju Singh, Kapil Bhandari, Rajnish Kumar Pandey, Dipesh Pradhan, Dipak Mishra, Dila Ram Kharel, Shakuntala Dhakal, Govind Bd. G.C., Rajesh Gupta, Sampurna K.C., Dharavindra Man Rajak, Sanjeev Sharma Bastakoti, Sajita Joshi Puja, Nabin Khadka, Kamal Kumar Majhi, Sujit Thakur, Sanjeeb Kumar Jha, Chiranjivi Sharma, Kanta Lal Chaudhary, Tirtha Ram Chaudhary, Purna S. Syangtan, Sujan K. Shrestha, Sahid Ali, Kiran Pradhan, and Megraj Giri.

Stationery Impact Discussion Program

6/4/2013

On 24th May 2013, Kehi Garoun organized a program for our network teachers to talk about the impact of stationery distribution program. Since 2011, Kehi Garoun has been distributing stationery supplies to economically challenged students. The main agenda of the program is to find out what the teachers have to share regarding the outcome of stationery distribution to 30 government school students. Among 22 participants, 12 teachers participated and gave their valuable feedback.

Teachers concluded that with such program, the students have been regular to school, keep their notebooks clean and tidy. Also, most teachers feel that the stationery really has created huge impact for teachers and mostly for the students who receive it.

Internship Summary - Karan Shah

6/3/2013

Karan Pratap Shah, a student from Symbiosis India, worked as a full time interns at Kehi Garoun for one month. He worked on issues related to the marketing and communications of Kehi Garoun. He focused on getting the team to revise the marketing strategy, make plans to promote Kehi Garoun in local media, print brochures and banners etc. His contribution would surely help Kehi Garoun's marketing in future. We wish him all the best for his future!

Stationery Distribution 2013

6/2/2013

Nagarik - a daily newspaper

Rajdhani Newspaper

This month, we started the first phase stationery distribution program.

More than 550 students have received stationery. All the four area coordinators for 25 schools have received stationery from which many teachers have gone and received the stationery immediately.
All the students received 6 notebooks each with other stationery supplies.
Once they use up the existing notebooks, we will supply additional ones.

HOW TO BE THE CHANGE? Kehi Garoun Interview on ECS Friday

6/1/2013

The Change we want to see in the world - by Anubhuti Poudyal
......An organization, Kehi Garoun, literally translated, “Let’s do something”, was created to motivate the ideas of change, to conceive people in the society, to work towards its betterment and instill the idea of the valuable work, which currently needs to be done in the society.....
......The society we live in is not perfect. Neither are we as individuals. When these two imperfects meet and begin understanding the way each acts, then the only thing that can follow is strengthening of positives and elimination of negatives. Kehi Garau as an organization understands the dependence individuals have in the society and vice versa. These entities are not alone, and hence need to be addressed as a team. If these two meet, work together, and influence development, then all that follows is prosperity!
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