The last breathers was held successfully with 12 people in KG office. The whole session revolved around a simple question, "Who is sad?", where everyone was engaging equally. It is a regular session running every Friday morning from 7:30 to 9:00 am. One and half hour long this session included breathing exercise and sharing on the given topic. Everyone enjoyed to be the part of this session. Members of breathers believe that this kind of session is needed to everyone out there.
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"Can we see the world through others' eyes or others' point of view?" question arises in the empathy session this Friday. Everyone engaged with their own thoughts. Everyone shared their point of view while thinking about other people like what they see, hear, feel and think in a certain situation. The session is held in Kanya Mandir HS School with 17 participants.
After a Breathers session at Budhanilkantha, KG team members started a silent hike uphill towards Gairigaun, Muhanpokhari located near the boundaries of Shivpuri National Park. The team stayed at a members place in the locality which was abundant in nature.
The three day trip explored themes of facilitator development sessions and mindful sessions. Facilitator Development Sessions Sessions included discussion on notions of:
Mindful Sessions: Indoor/Outdoor
The campaign started with a motive of reaching and helping students in need of warm sweaters so that they could be motivated to attend school in this year's freezing winter. With the help of mentors KG identified 396 students in 12 different schools who needed to be helped. Along the way we were also able to provide 169 warm hats to children. We thank all mentors, volunteers, donors and enablers who have shown their constant support towards the movement.
This winter KG organized a winter camp for government school students. There were 8 participants form Shanti Sikshya secondary school. The camp was 3 days long which included activities on Emotional Intelligence and Design For Change. Emotional Intelligence was a completely new topic for them. Everyone participated in the entire 3 days of winter camp with a lot of interest and enthusiasm. According to them, at first, they thought the camp will be boring with some teaching and writing activities. They had not expected this kind of session. After completing the camp everyone was happy to learn new things. Everyone shared how they were unaware of simple daily activities which could affect them as well as others. They found the sessions completely new, interesting, and fruitful.
“I will definitely be aware of what I am going to do and how I am talking to others. I find it really important to know how a small thing can affect others without the intention to hurt them” said Nishan Rai. 2018 Board Members2018 ADVISORY TEAM GLOBAL 2018 members
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The Fouding team: Arati Paudel, Vice President, holds a bachelor's degree in sociology and culture. She has always been interested in social work. Prerana Bhatta, General Secretary holds a Bachelor's degree in sociology and economics. Her interest is in encouraging housewives to play active roles outside their homes. Anupama Pokhrel, Treasurer, is the Lead Researcher at Kehi Garoun. She holds a Master's degree in sociology. Her primary interest is in social inclusion. Renuka Adhikari, founding member, holds a bachelor's degree in English and economics. Her interest is in capacity building of charity organizations. Suraj Pokhrel, a student of Bachelor in Business Studies at that time, provided coordination support. Volunteers - Prashant Karki, Jeevan Shrestha, Deepshikha Rana, Situ Shretha, Dinita Adhikari, Shrayashree, Kiran, Shreya, Sanjina, Nischal, Neejan, Bikesh, Sukhad, Atul, Atulya, Gaurav, Paridhi, Palija, Ankita, Vaskar, Anel, Ayushma, Santosh, Sumnima, and Yunisha, Rajesh, Ramon, Nisha ‘Innovation in Sustainability’ - TheeGo applies latest technologies and innovations towards sustainable prosperity.
"Every day we hear and learn about the most pressing problem of today’s world like climate change, environment degradation, uncontrolled population growth and their endless impacts on humanity. These problems and often referred as side products of industrialization, transportation, technological encroachment and rightly so. All of these are here to address the short term needs of people but completely eclipses their long term impact and ignores the need of sustainability. We know it is very daunting task to sacrifice the short term need and comfort for long term sustainability. Investing in innovation requires patience, focus and expertise. To achieve our goals we have ventured into generation and distribution of sustainable energy using renewable sources and techniques, introduction of clean and green electric vehicles for rental services, charging stations for electric vehicles. Thee- Go has three companies FGE, G&G and SRIBIT goal of innovation for sustainability." ![]() Many students from government schools are unable to buy a pair of shoe, which is not only injurious to them but they also feel embarrassed to go to school without shoes. Therefore KG in coordination with Mentor circle (a group of active teachers) identified 107 students in need from 8 different schools and successfully served them with school shoes. ![]() Mustang Trails conducts customized tours in Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet and Ladakh. Since 2004, it has organizing tea house treks, peak climbing expeditions, cultural tours and tours for people with special needs. "We really appreciate the ’Be the change" approach of 'Design for change" framework where students identify their problems and look for solutions themselves. This is exactly what we feel is needed to build a self-sufficient and dignified society. We are proud to partner with KG to build a dignified community," says Bidhya Hirachan, MD. ![]() Professional Educational Consultancy (PEC) believes in direct interactions with the society. It has done a lot of contribution to the society in a number of ways, as Corporate Social Responsibility, where there is no give and take, but genuine activities, that will benefit the society. "We are proud to partner with Kehi Garoun as a platform that allows us to reach wider community that is already involved in the welfare of the society," says Raju Singh, MD. PEC's employees believe in being active in the society. Each employee has their own interests as to how they want to make a difference in the society. PEC team is enthusiastic about being able to serve the society using KG's platform. Design for change framework helped the students to solve their problems at Shanti Sikshya Secondary School. After completing the FIDS session they have improved their learning . while doing this framework students had listed all problems that they have been facing in their school everyday. After it, they chose the important problems by voting. Once it is done, they imagined the various solutions and listed the plan to solve it . Finally they solved their problems with the help of design for change project. Students of Kankeshwori Lower Secondary School have done design for change project, while doing this project students were very much excited. They had listed the problems that bothered them and list out the plan to solve it . when they solved it they were happy for their efforts. For kids by kids program was designed by a group of mentors from 12 different schools. The program was successful held on 8th June at Kanya Mandir Secondary School, Chhetrapati. Around 400 students were present at the event. Students put all together 15 cultural acts and 12 Food stalls. The total revenue of the event was RS.26,000 which will be used in DFC projects led by students themselves. Testimonial by Sarala Panta (Teacher, Kanya Mandir School): I have never experienced an event like this before where teachers and students from different school come together at a common place and work together in a non competitive way. Students of Shanti Sikshya Secondary School were happy in doing design for change project. With the help of this projects they were able to solve their problems in school. They have chosen the toilet cleanliness projects which is most import problem to them. Support of teacher, school admin and students were able to solve it with good effort. Kehi Garoun has been working for the last ten years towards self-empowerment. Yet, somehow we are seen as yet another charity organization, adding to the very culture of dependence that we are trying to change. In our attempt to rethink our work, Nabin, Pravendra and Umanga attended a 3 day retreat on Reimaging Education in Ahmedabad, organized by movedbylove.org. The retreat was an experience of generosity, connection and learning. It was truly rewarding experience for our 'hands, hearts and heads.' Details of the retreat is here. Inspired by our experience, we replicated a similar retreat for Kehi Garoun volunteers from January 27-29 to explore the potential of "inside-out change" - the social change that results from personal change. We did not have a rigid agenda, yet we had a prayer that each of us will get some clarity for oneself, and kindle heart-connections with others. "EACH OF US GUARDS A GATE OF CHANGE, THAT CAN BE UNLOCKED ONLY FROM THE INSIDE." The retreat, thanks too all participants and volunteers, happened to emerge with a framework of how we can co-create possibilities of Inside-Out Change at the level of schools and colleges. There were many moments of inspiration and connections. Our first evening was rainy and cold but was made peaceful and warm by the volunteers who sat around, in the distant glow of a heater, to share their stories of inner change. Saturday was a busy day of breakout sessions and prayers and laughter. Many of us left at the end of the day with a piece of an inner sun shine. Sunday morning, a small group took a long walk through the flower-fields to Ichangu temple before saying goodbye to the inspiring location of Whitefield Residential School.
We believe that the retreat was meaningful for each of the participants. For Kehi Garoun, the retreat was a collective articulation of the model of change it has been exploring. We were reminded of how joyful yet difficult is the journey of self-care, social-empathy and humility. And in that spirit, we share this email with you to highlight:
Summary: The experience was so inspiring that Kehi Garoun held a similar retreat on inside-out change as soon as their team got back to Nepal. Highlights: The retreat started with simple introduction of all the participants and the volunteers. All shared their moments of joy in education. There were break out sessions on compassion quotient. We visited Sewa Cafe, an experiment in giving, and listened to Nemo's songs.
Annex: Kehi Garoun team stayed for an extra day to visit some interesting works in education. Our visit to the Riverside International School led us to integrate their "design for change" curriculum into our own Dignity Circle program. and also the "i can " challenge for the schools. We also heard about their salient lessons from Gandhian education from the Registrar of Ganghi Vidyapith.
We moderate dialogues among leaders of various organizations who wish to serve as a sounding board to one another.
Inside Out Change: A change-model where changes at a personal level ripples out as social change. This is in contrast to standard model where social, legal or governmental change channels person’s behavior.
Mindful Actions: Actions that combine inner reflection and outer engagement, as expressed by our logo. Such actions thus ripen positive changes at a personal level. There changes (wellness for oneself, empathy in relationships and excellence in work) ripple out as positive social change. AUSTRALIAN CONSOLIDATED MILK - 2015
SAIRA BUDHRANI - 2015![]() Saira D Budhrani also known as Reshy is Philippines based Dance instructor and choreographer. She with the help of her friends promoted a campaign called "#raise4nepal" and raised total amount of Rs.89,276 for Nepalese children.She donated the entire fund to Kehi Garoun Nepal to help childern of earthquake victims Out of Rs.89,276 Kehi Garoun used Rs.35000 for providing stationery materials to 100 students of different government school and Rs.54000 was used to provide mid-day lunch to 30 students. THEO WELS - 2015
PP Prasain foundation - 2015PP Prasai Foundation was established in February 18, 2011 as a tribute to Late Prajapati Prasai. The Foundation was established with the main intention of keeping alive aspirations of PP particularly in developing and promoting the education and tourism sector of Nepal. In 3rd Sept 2015, Kehi Garoun and PP Prasai foundation agreed to collaborate to fulfill mutual agreed goals by signing MOU where PP Prasai donated Rs.105000 to help and support children in need with their educational materials. KUMARI THAAN RESTORATION 2015
Summary: We have to learn to care. We don't know how to do that well enough, and that is the root of our collective non-performance. Why We Recommend this? An act of change may live on by inspiring others, one person at a time. Volunteers are from Ullens School, Rato Bangla School, Trichandra College and Nepal Commerce College. They are Aleena Shrestha, Prapti Sharma, Ishaan TheKop Rijal, Dolkar Nyangmi, Shristi Bhetwal, Sishtata Neupane, Karishma Keshari Tuladhar, Roshan Chapagain, Aashish Joshi, Biraj Koirala, Shristi Shrestha, Praven Maharjan,Prena Manandhar, Keshab Raj Joshi, Kriti Dhital, Ram Shankar Ale Magar, Krishna Dhungana, Akshaya Prasai, Mihir Pyakuryal, Gaurav Jaysuwal,Utkrista Pandey , Sulana Shrestha, Sabina Adhikari, Ankita Bista, Bicky Shrestha , Aashaya Upadhayay, Smriti Pandey, Jayshree Jain and Karma Dolma Gurung.
![]() Many children in public schools and orphanages continue to be deprived of basic materials that support their educational needs. One such common need is the school uniform, that many poor families struggle to provide to their children. This becomes a glaring need in the extreme cold of the Kathmandu winter, when many children lack a sweater to wear to school. This not only affects the health of the children, but also affects their motivation to attend school. In this shivering season, you can give warmth to the children by donating Rs 450 per sweater. All 100% of your donation will be used for the purchase of the sweaters. HISTORY:
![]() Australian Consolidated Milk (ACM) is Australia’s fastest growing dairy company . They collect milk from their valued suppliers and deliver dairy ingredients directly to end-user customers in the domestic and export markets. In November 2015 , They sent donation of 3000 Australian Dollar which is NRS.225,462.39 to Kehi Garoun Nepal which was utilized for Sweater Campaign 2015/2016 Kehi Garoun has started a new program ‘Education venture’ with the vision of improving the educational system. We are looking to work with schools as a consultant or as a part of school management itself.
Our education vision is to inspire the education community through the merits of the culture of self-learning.
![]() Theo Wels , a resident of Strasbourg, Schijndel, France is a philanthropist who believes in caring and loving human being. When Nepal was devastated by earthquake and people were in need of help, he donated $500 to help especially children in need, Kehi Garoun has been using his donation to provide educational material such as school uniform, school shoes, bag, stationery and mid-day meal to students of various government affected by earthquake. ![]() PP Prasai Foundation was established in February 18, 2011 as a tribute to Late Prajapati Prasai, popularly known as PP. The Foundation was established with the main intention of keeping alive aspirations of PP particularly in developing and promoting the education and tourism sector of Nepal. The PP Prasai Foundation was established with the objective to develop, promote and contribute to the national development by creating opportunities; recognizing potentials; inspiring and supporting individuals and institutions committed to change for the better and for identifying, developing, preserving and promoting destinations and heritages in these two particular sectors. In 3rd Sept 2015, Kehi Garoun and PP Prasai foundation agreed to collaborate to fulfill mutual agreed goals by signing MOU where PP Prasai donated Rs.105000 to help and support children in need with their educational materials. ![]() Saira D Budhrani also known as Reshy is Philippines based Dance instructor and choreographer. She with the help of her friends promoted a campaign called "#raise4nepal" and raised total amount of Rs.89,276 for Nepalese children.She donated the entire fund to Kehi Garoun Nepal to help childern of earthquake victims Out of Rs.89,276 Kehi Garoun used Rs.35000 for providing stationery materials to 100 students of different government school and Rs.54000 was used to provide mid-day lunch to 30 students. |
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