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Dorothee
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| 07:20 AM Oct 30 2021

Dorothee

Germany

‘Reutlinger Nachrichten’ now wrote an article about what’s new in Nepal: Of course most of it was about the effects of climate change on Nepal – the monsoon seems to be worse than it used to -, about the scholar system – parents are forced by law to let their children have at least 4 school years, but need to pay for any further school year -, about the dangers and hardships students face on their ways to school – bad roads and ailing bridges and in some cases no roads or bridges at all – and about the hotel ‘Yak & Yeti’ in Kathmandu. What surprised me wasn’t so much that this hotel meets about the standards of European hotels – in the capital of a developing country you always find a number of hotels that meet European standards so to attract European tourists -, but what surprised me was whom they hired as a manager. As it seems a lady from Baden-Wuerttemberg in the South of Germany once moved to Kathmandu to work and to live there. Now she has been the manager of this hotel for many years. She even got an award that as far as I understood is given away by an international Asian organization to managers who do an excellent work.

| 05:19 AM Apr 19 2020

Dorothee

Germany

The German newspaper ‘Suedwestpresse’ says that a lady from Grafenberg (Baden-Wuerttemberg/ Germany) produces respirators for the Corona-crisis and donates some of the money she earns to social institutions (hospitals, schools etc.) in Nepal.

| 05:54 AM Apr 14 2020

Dorothee

Germany

‘Tagesschau’ says that yesterday people in Nepal celebrated their New Year ‘Bisket-Jatra’. Alas due to COVID 19 things were a lot different from previous years. There were no public parades or parties and people weren’t even allowed to invite guests to their houses.

| 12:28 PM Feb 14 2020

Dorothee

Germany

‘GEA’ now did a totally new approach on the matter of children from developing countries not going to school. Instead of – as most newspapers – depicting the parents as too uneducated to understand, this newspaper article now gave plausible reasons why some parents in Nepal keep their children away from school:
>After each monsoon rain the already poorly built school buildings get destroyed meaning that children are educated in cold, muddy and wet ruins. Of course they get sick!
>As most of the parents are farmers and schools always are in cities and towns, most children would have to take a five-hour-walk to school and back everyday. This is A impossible especially for a child and B dangerous as so many bad things could happen within these five hours and without a mobile phone the child wouldn’t be able to call for help.
>In boarding schools the children even are accommodated in slum-like rooms. Toilets and sanitary areas are a disaster, too!
Without all these issues maybe more Nepalese parents would send their kids to school!

| 07:33 AM Nov 10 2019

Dorothee

Germany

‘Suedwestpresse’ says that since the earthquake of 2015 many foreigners have tried to make use of the situation, I mean to earn their living, by moving to Nepal and claiming to be doctors even though they are not. Others decided to get rid of medicine that reached its best before date by simply donating it to Nepal. Some of these donations didn’t even include a package leaflet in a language the average Nepalese would understand. So they were useless to the hospital staff anyway.

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