FIRST HUMANITARIAN AID IN NEPAL – Report of January 24 2024

ASIA team composed by 4 people left from Kathmandu on January 9th to join the areas affected by the earthquake in north-west of Nepal. The first week has been spent in Shirpachaur village (Jajarkot district), where materials for the construction of temporary shelters were distributed to 153 families. On January 17th they remained on-site for the distribution […]

SOS Himalayan Children

LET’S SECURE THEIR FUTURE IN THIS MOMENT THE CHILDREN OF JAJARKOT AND RUKUM WEST, REMOTE NORTH-WESTERN AREAS OF NEPAL, ARE EXPERIENCING A REAL EMERGENCY. MANY OF THEM ARE NOW HOMELESS, DON’T HAVE ENOUGH FOOD AND ACCESS TO SAFE EDUCATION   On November 3 2023, an earthquake of 6.4 magnitude  struck these regions, causing 157 deaths, 349 injuries and destroying 17,792 houses and […]

SOS Earthquake in Nepal

Nepal was hit by a very severe earthquake on Friday, 3 November 2023, particularly affecting the districts of Jajarkot and Rukum West, in the north-west of the country. To date there have been 157 dead, 349 injured, 17.792 homes completely destroyed and another 17.529 damaged. There are 300 damaged schools too. It is already winter here, at night temperatures drop […]

HAPPY #LOSAR 2023!

Losar, the Tibetan New Year, has finally arrived! Losar (ལོ་གསར་ lo gsar) is the Tibetan New Year. Literally, It means new (ལོ་ lo) year (གསར་ gsar). This year it will fall on February 21, the day of the new moon, and the celebrations will last for over a week! From today, according to the Tibetan calendar, […]

CULTURAL COLUMN – THE 8 AUSPICIOUS SYMBOLS

Throughout the autumn, on our social media channels we have curated a cultural column dedicated to the Eight Auspicious Symbols, these are eight emblems associated with the Buddha. They have become one of the most widespread iconographic motifs since the very beginning of Buddhist art. They are: the parasol, the endless knot, the golden fishes, […]

#Nepal Diary of Mission by Giovanni

Read below the diary of mission by Giovanni Bombieri, forestry expert who left in June to Nepal for the project Langtang National Park, Environmental Preservation.  Giovanni left as trainer and representative of the Forest Association of Trentino (project partner) together with Fabrizio Calovi, of the Trentino Beekepers Association (other partner).   Premise What an unexpected experience! I […]