Clothing distribution program langtang region rasuwa district 2009
1. Clothing distribution program Gatlang village in
Langtang region, Rasuwa district 2009.
Special Thanks to Nola Ainsworth, her friends from Australia and Habitat
for Humanity (Australians +Canadian) team who donated those clothes to
Nepali poorest mountain Porters’ community in october2009.similarly we
would like to express heartfelt thanks to the individuals, volunteers and
organizations for their generous help and support to high Himalayan poorest
porters' community. Following are names of the individuals that have
contributed clothes in this our clothing distribution program.
Dr. Sandy Scott, Mr. John Bean, Wolfgang Hauser, Monika Milwicz, Zander Hack,
Matt Grant, Sabine Kaltenegger, Harry Ray, Dan Moore, Tim Wiles, Paul McCann-
Pew, Lucy Adams, Tony Was sell, Paul Franklin, John Lawrence, Matthew Harris,
Alison Ewing, Nicole Morelia, Thomas Knoll, Nick Holland, Leanne Packer, Sonja
Kusch, Katharina Frey, Marc Garland, Ilea Lyapkalo, Will Bayliss, Gordon Fowls,
Roger, Dank, Alex Cretin, Thomas Poultney, Andy Cry ton, Lynn Whelchel, Anil
Pandit, Pritam Neupane, Amit Arjyal, Johnnie Yates, Hans erg Goetz, Oren Bough,
Martin Bough, Jan Kocab, Derek and Margaret Jones, Alexander Hop.
2. A typical and ancient Tamang cultural village, Gatlang where recently we have
distributed those clothes and usually we mobilize western volunteers' and few
projects as well
3. A poorest orphanage family of Gatlang village where five children of same mother, looking for
opportunities'
On 15th December 2009 on the auspicious occasion of Merry Christmas, we have
distributed warm hand knitted 334 caps, 119 pairs of shocks, 94 sweaters, 47 jackets 182
trousers, 19 pair of gloves, 42 pair of sunglasses 262 pair of children verities to the under
8 years old, altogether 353 vulnerable people including orphanages, helpless, disabled,
babies, primary level students', mothers and few old people were benefited and all these
people are extremely Happy and grateful with all our donors, volunteers and supporters
and they would like to express their heartfelt thanks to all of the donors and wishing
continue support in nearly future too.
4. VDC Chairperson, secretary and headmaster of primary school helping to select the matching
clothes to the children.
Choosing the cloths for distribution
5. A happy mother with only a month baby sleeping on her lap, another baby at behind and some
children as well
Children wearing caps
8. Bhanu Nagarkoti 76 years old man, wearing a red scarf which is his favorite one for this winter.
9. Maila Bulun is 74 years old and very happy getting sunglass and warm clothes.
10. Chair man of village giving clothes to the students of primary school to attract others school age
Children who do not come to school for study
Clothing distribution to both boys and girls
13. Clothing distribution to both boys and girls in Gatlang
A mother is preparing lunch (Dhido) for her nine children (7girls and two boys) who are usual here
at Gatlang village.
14. Our targeted Gatlang VDC (Village development committee) of Rasuwa district, where
large numbers of porters live, is the poorest VDC of Nepal (HDI-2009). Gatlang village
is the remotest village of Nepal which is situated at 2450m from the sea level and situated
in northern Nepal, close to the Tibetan border and at the bottom of the Langtang and
Ganesh Himalayan region which is just a shadow of famous trekking route. Being a
mountainous region, lands are not very fertile. Although 95% people depend on
agriculture, villagers cannot produce enough crops to feed their families. Literacy rate of
Gatlang village is very low, at 2% (Source district development committee Rasuwa
annual journal 2009). The population of Gatlang village is Approx 1950(source: census
survey of 2009 by DDC Rasuwa journal) and one of the poorest Village development
committee of Nepal among 3915 VDCs (source HDI-2009) while the average literacy
rate of the country is 59.7%.
Picture: 3, these children are intently looking and hearing my voice and waiting to get some warm
clothes soon. (I was talking with VDC chair person, Secretary and teachers to select really vulnerable
family to distribute clothes).
In Gatlang village there is only one primary school and the nearest secondary school is
4.5 hours far from their village that is why Many school-aged children have been unable
to attend their schools, and large numbers of children have resorted to all kinds of work
to assist their families, including portering, rag picking, demining, working in garment
factories, as domestic servants, farm work, street trafficking, sexual activities, and more.
They are getting very poor nutrition from their food. Still, the state does not assist these
communities and few institutions do. As porters are the target group, we would like to
assist their communities as we can. So when we recently received a very large, wonderful
donation of children’s clothing, we chose to distribute them in Gatlang VDCs in Rasuwa.
15. Finally our sincerest thanks again to the chair person of Gatlang VDC, secretary of the
Gatlang VDC, teachers of the primary school who helped fairly to select 353 the most
vulnerable people among 2000 population of Gatlang village, all our donors, partners,
volunteers and friends! And if you would like to make a contribution to assist these
vulnerable groups, we appreciate donations of clothing, food, and stationery. No matter
how you choose to contribute, you can affect great change in this part of world and these
porters’ children’s lives.
THANK YOU!
Harikrishna devkota
Mountain porters association Nepal