Handing over from Speck, bread, T-shirts and caps for our "Nepal" project by Mr Robert Enzler at the Mountain Lodge "Berghotel Hinterduxerhof". One of my favourite places in Kufstein...

Further on you can see useful things for the journey sponsored by Carmen, Ludwig (my godchild), Freddy & Charlotte, Christina, Hannelore & Greti, Susi, Steffi, Peter "Tirolikum", Michael und Jürgen (+Kaisermarsch/Ebbs) 

"108 Sonnengrüße" for a good purpose

On the 21.12.2019 round 80 yogis were celebrating solstice with 108 "greetings of the sun". In the premises of the "Kulturquartier" they were sweating for a good purpose. The net profit of 
€ 840,- was handed over to Nepal School Project as a donation. This amount should enable our association to purchase music instruments and learning materials for students

 introducing a little more colours and brightness into their day to day learning. 

Many thanks to all involved people for their support: TVB Kufstein (Stefan Pühringer), yoga.tage Kufstein (Katharina Martini), Kufstein Galerien (Sandra Bodner), Kulturquartier Kufstein, Bäckerei Mitterer, Neuner Tees, Gerald Pletzer, Florian Egger for the shooted pictures, Nana Belke for the coole sound und Martin Heis for the live-music. 

BU: Monika Egger (Yogaraum Kufstein) and  Michael Aigner (Secretary of Nepal School Project Association), c) Florian Egger

Ps: Many thanks to Monika for this great idea. With her engagement she shows that many things are possible. 108 smiles in the face of happy students over here should give her power to continue her good work in the yoga-studio.

Update 19-12-25

In the kitchenroom of Mrs Didi Ganga 2 cartons were placed with drawing maps,  packages of colour pencils, wax colours, erasers and sharpeners and watercolours each. In any free time or breaking time they can use the stuff from there and draw a painting for the competition.

Update 19-12-27 

Football championship for Secondary schools in the area. The dresses of our team were sponsered by "Nepal School Project, Kufstein/Austria". There was also one friendship footballgame, where we could watch "ladypower pur"!! 

Update 20-01-06

Also here it's getting cold now but people know how to get on. Again a big buying-tour in Kathmandu, this time about 100 kg of stuff for the schools. The 4-7 hours busdrive back to Sildhunga is a challenge itself. 
Sister Carmen was sending also two parcels with games, used clothingmaterial of her kids, sweets, special "Hüttenpatschen" for cold studentfeet, one lucky star and a motivation-picture for me drawn by my godchild Ludwig. 

Update 20-01-21 

Together with teachers and students we entered the jungle of Naya Basti to get wooden posts for constructing goals on the footballground nearby the school. The "kukuri" of Sanil Tamang was very helpful for this work. The posts had been fixed with aluminiumwire from a nearby place, where an overhead powerline had been changed.

Update 20-01-22 

Gifts for the winners of the drawing-competition were handed over. A lot of smiling faces left this ceremony. 

Update 19-01-27

I was starting this work alone but after a short time the boys of class 6 were helping and later on it developed to a project were Tobias with classes 6, 7 and 8 were joining and a big team could fix a fence on one side of the footballground, where the ball always was falling down the steep hill and disappearing anywhere in the jungle. Even all the ladies were offering there help on this hard work! We were also digging a small waterchannel to enable plants to grow and making a natural fence available. 

Update 20-01-31

Mrs Sangeeta Bhandari and "didi Mary" were visiting the school. Mrs Dr. Weber-Keller was inaugurating the new installed computer lab, which was sponsored by "ukalo.de". Students can work now on 12 laptops and 8 normal computers, which is great and i think unique for this area. For the library many new books were sponsored. Further than that a wall was constructed together with many meters of waterdrainages. Their visit was celebrated as a school-festival. Also this time she brought along a big bag for our association containing schoolmaterials and donated clothing materials from Walter Kristler's family and my sister Carmen. Many thanks for doing so! Again we got those nice bags sponsored by Sparkasse Kufstein /Ebbs and there were also some specials delivered for my future mointain-tours. As you can see on the foto Robert's "Duxer Lärche", a special destillery created for hard woodworkers by Berghotel Hinterduxerhof, did not survive for a long time, approximately 4 hours. The same evening we enjoyed the drink together with some teachers and at the end their question "why don't you have more of this majestic drink...? Also some new Cappies have been brought along, thanks very much! On the video you can see and hear Tobias Taller. He also teached on the school (English, Science and Mathematics) as a volounteer and is doing well on the guitar and violin. 

Update 20-02-04

On this day the "Semesterconcert" took place at the federal music-school of Kustein/Tirol/Austria. They had organized it as a "Benefit Concert" for our association. Many thanks to Mr. Bahram Pietsch (director of the school) and to Mr. Michael Aigner (clarinet-teacher and at the same time secretary of our association). Music is connecting people - this time Kufstein/Tirol/Austria with Sildhunga/Sindupalchowk District/Nepal. I am also sending my best greetings to them together with "Namaste" from Nepal! In total € 642,- were handed over to our association. To all visitors of these event, who were also donating the project i can say "you have done well!" All this money enables our association to give at least a little support to many students, which also makes me happy. Thanks so much! 

Update 20-02-10

This day i was going down to the "Shree Sampada Primary School" in Barna to distribute clothes from Fam Kristler, but it ended up in a day with singing, practicing on the chime, doing paper-crafts and playing chess. The children were very happy about these gifts - thanks again to Walter & Renate, Steffi and Kathrin. On the picture you can see what child is wearing what (the teachers have taken the choice to handle it over to the most needy ones). 
Together with lady-teachers and students we created some paper-crafts and played on different Orff-instruments. The lady-teachers for nursery- and lower classes will learn this instrument, 2 had been supported. It should be a good way to teach easy songs in english to lower classes. Tobias is doing well with his classes down there, they performed famous folk-songs "Leka ka hami", "Resham Firiri" and "Gau gau bata utha" - with what passion they were singing! Interested people could also try on the guitar (sponsored by ukalo.de). He had organised several chess-playing-sets and needed a box for the chess-figures. His idee: taking bambus, which grows here everywhere. So suggested and immediately done. All people (headteacher Sir Ashok Bhandari included) were helping to get some bamboo-sticks and cut them into the right length. In a short time about 18 boxes were ready. As clousing material an old plasticplane should be helpful to make wads to close these sticks on the open side.

Update 20-02-13/14

Chess-Competition and official good-bye ceremony for Tobias. He was training with classes in lower and upper classes and i think that some talents in this game had been found. 20 students took place in this competition ending with two final games (upper and lower) classes on friday, the 14. of February. The same morning the  official good-bye ceremony was held in Primary School. Thereafter the sponseres guitar from ukalo.de and 4 chess-sets were handed over to Mr Yug Bahadur Shrestha, headteacher of Shree Sampada Secondary School. He sponsored also some chess-sets to interested students. We all do hope that the responsible people take care of the games and the instrument enabling a lot of students to gain from them in future. Tobi is young and wants to see more from our world, so all the best to his further plans visiting a monastery, heading on to Tajikistan and... 

Update 20-02-21

I was in Kathmandu at the Neo-Clinic (sponsored by ukalo.de) and Sir Surya Shrestha took care of me. I had some problems with an Allergy on my hands and he handed me over the right medicine for it (many thanks also to Mr Dr Reiner Weber-Keller, he was contacting many friends in Germany to find out what desease it finally was following to some fotos i had transferred). Back to Sildhunga i was again on the way with my big rucksack full of schoolmaterials and 2 cartons with flutebooks, chimes, glue, more bags sponsored by Sparkasse Kufstein /Ebbs and clothingmaterial and dolls sponsored by Carmen, my sister and Walter Kristler's family! A lot of children will be happy receiving those items. 

Update 20-03-05

I was down at Sampada Primary School in Barna to supply teachers with promised items like a cap for Sir Ashok Bandhari and woolsandals for all the teachers (sponsored by my sister Carmen). Some more instruments for the primary levels (orff) had been handed over. We trained on the chimes playing also on the flute and i had to learn that nearly all teachers there are highly motivated to learn the flute. The first contact with this instrument for all of them  were very funny as well. The next day saturday (no school), i was down there again doing repairing work on broken desks and banks and deposited at the same time 3 flutes + flute-book + bags for the teachers there. The first flute-lesson will take place very soon. In total 14 sitting banks and 9 tables could be remade out of all broken parts. For all helpers on this work (also from the upper Secondary School) little gifts were handed over. It was in total 3 days work (on saturdays) in the morninghours. At Sampada Secondary School in Naya Basti new flute-students started. On the last picture you see Sanil Tamang (3. from the right side). He is a student of the 9.class and started to teach newcommers. All bags for the fluteplayers had been sponsored by Sparkasse Kufstein/Ebbs and my sister Carmen. Fluteplayers at Sampada School: Sir Bacchu Bhandari, Sir Ashok Bhandari, Mss Sunita Tamang, Mss Niru Tamang/Sarati Shrestha, Sanil Tamang, Mikmar Tamang, Kritika Shrestha, Sumina Tamang, Ramiksha Bodora, Pradin Tamang, Dipesh Tamang, Sudip Tamang, Ashik Tamang, Rima Shrestha, Raju Shrestha, Dawa Tamang, Chiring Tamang, Samir Tamang, Ankit Pandey, Roshana Pandey, Sachin Pandey, Manika Shrestha, Sanjula Shrestha, Srijana Tamang, Nima Tamang and Suman Tamang. 

Update 20-03-16

Another 6 balls together together with some trainingsstuff for football was sponsored to Yug Sir, the responsible man to look after it will be Captain Sumann Tamang. An own fund had been established to honour teaching-lessons for flute with money. It was deposited at the school. Sir Amar Pandey will be responsible for it and pay out money for students or teachers, who are teaching other students on the flute. A contract with clear rules and instructions had been set up and contrasigned by both parties "Sampada Secondary School" and "nepal-school-project" and will be valid for one year. 
I do hope that my "message" was understood and all involved people trying their best to a stady growing of music affairs in this area which also should be recognized in other regions of Nepal. At the moment we try to coach 2 students and 2 trachers intensively to enable continuous music lessons after my time beeing there. Sanil Tamang has started with one group and got his first "music teaching salary" on the 20. of March. His mother was joining this little ceremony and both were happy. 

Some more imagines

11. "Shree Jalpa Secondary School", Kothe 

On a busdrive i got in contact with the english-teacher of this school, Sir Niraj Acharya. So i was visiting it to do a drawing-competition with all students. Principal Sir Shiva Prasad and headteacher Sir Sudip Parajuli and a team of 18 teachers are responsible for 150 students, 15 childs in nursery class. It was a very warm welcome and a nice stay there. In the breaking time i got served a nepali imbiss, derai mitho baiyo, thanks! For any further music-support, this school unfortunately is too far away (1,5 hours by bus). We also had little time to do some paperfolding (Origami) together with some ladyteachers and students. 3 prices (warm woolen sandals) had been sponsored by Carmen, my sister and several dolls by Lorenz, my nephew and Ludwig, my godchild. 

12. "Shree Sundarimai Secondary School", Thutemani 

This school was visited on the 12.of March as their headtecher Sir Tej Bahadur Bhandari was requesting my support. It lays about 1 walking hour downhills away from my stay. It was a very nice welcome with a lot of rhododendron flowers. Material for the drawing competition and games for the breaktimes in school were handed over. Also for the nursery-class games were handed over. On 2 supported chimes with songbook we started to practice together. 14 more teachers are responsible for 200 students, nursery-class with 20 children included. 

13. "Shree Nateshwor Basic School", Thautali 

On my routes i was more often staying for lunch in Thautali and ot to k ow, that tbere was a small school a lite bit further down. The other day i met tbe director of this school Sir Naresh and we fixed the 22. of April that i would visit their school. 3 teachers there are responsible for 13 students.