BIBEKSHEEL NEPALI NEWSLETTER

Issue 1

Bibeksheel
Nepali
Newsletter

3rd June
2015
HUNDRED GATHERED IN NEPAL (DETAILS IN PAGE 4 )
KATHMANDU, JUN 25 - Police
rounded up around two dozen
protesters from outside the Soaltee
Hotel,
the
venue
of
the
International
Conference
on
Nepals
Reconstruction,
in
Kathmandu on Thursday.They were
staging a peaceful rally carrying
placards that read Nepal is only
open
for
investment,
Aid
Slavery=
Zero
Prosperity,
Lessons from Haiti! No to Aid
Addiction.

As many as 23 activists affiliated to

Bibeksheel Nepali , a political party,
including Chairman Ujjwal Thapa
have been arrested for staging the
protest. Govinda Narayan, from the
legislative department of the youthled party, said the police detained the
activists shortly after the conference
commenced this morning. We want
to urge donors to not only provide aid
but to invest in Nepal as well, said
Govinda Narayan, But police said
this was not allowed and they had
orders from above to make arrests."

CONTENT INSIDE

Simon Dhungana
#Bibeksheel Nepali
Activities
#Bhukampa Karkhana
#Nepali Toastmasters
By [Article Author]
# Aba K Garne and Cleaning
Campaign
#Hundreds Gathered In
Nepal
#Bibeksheel Nepali
Activities
#International/Strategic
Alliance
#Organizational Structure

Nepal wants more investments

not aid.
Nepali society can never lift itself
out of poverty if our leadership
continues to embrace this culture
of
abject
begging.
Our
leaderships attitude and the
subsequent system it has built
accepts donors as gods. This has
created a extractive model of
opaque (non-transparent), corrupt
and unequal donor driven society.
The
government
and
nongovernmental
institutions
engineered around foreign aid
have in the last five decades
remained largely unanswerable to
the people of Nepal (It is been 14
years since we had any locally
elected officials-leaders to guide
us). Our rulers have consistently
over-promised and under-delivered
specially when it comes to use of
foreign aid. One simple proof lies
in the much hyped earthquake
preparedness campaign with the
help of millions of dollars of foreign
aid. Look where it got us!
For More :- www.whynepal.com

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Bibeksheel Nepali
Activities
Post-Earthquake Activities

Bibeksheel Nepali
immediate response team
reached teaching hospital
by 12:25 pm within 30
minutes after 25th April
earthquake.
Within 24 hours Bibeksheel
Nepali had set up support
team at Teaching hospital,
Bir hospital and Bhaktapur
hospital.

2
Bibeksheel Nepali
dispatched 1st relief
package to Arupokhari,
Gorkha materials include
Rice-99 sacks, Dal -5
sacks, Oil-500 packets,
Tripal- 92 pieces, Blankets11 bundles, salt-500
packets, cloths 12 sacks.
1st medical relief team
was dispatched to Paga,
Kritipur at 3 pm, 27. Team
included 5 doctors and
took 1 box of medicine.
BN Nepali helped more
than 5,834 houses during
earthquake relief
campaign.

This project is handled by Diwas

shrestha and Pradeep Dhakal while
the senior leadership is of Govinda
The devastating earthquake of 25th
April 2015 has caused
unimaginable destruction.
Bibeksheel Nepali pioneered a
rehablitation project called
Bhukampa Karkhana in Kavre.
The team has finished the first
phase of this project by dismantling
the damaged houses. The second
phase of the construction work is
going which is to build Bhukampa
Karkhana whose main objective is
to provide vocational traninng to

More than 300 numbers of

Localities/ Village have
been provided relief
Photo of
through BSN volunteers
Bibeksheel Nepali
and partners.
Health Camp and
BSN team has visited 17
Water
distribution
districts and
406 areas.
Most visitsprogramme
made by BN at
Machhe
gaun
partners were
to
Sindhupalchowk 50 times
and Kathmandu
118times. Photo Via: - Bhai

Raja Bhandari

E- DOLPA EDUCATE
ALLIANCE BUILDING
DOLPA
Bibeksheel Nepali worked
with more than 677 Alliances
and other individuals worked
with for relief work after
earthquake.
CONTACT FOR ALLIANCE BUILDING
WITH US
alliance.bibeksheel@gmail.com

Bhukampa Karkhana(Earthquake
Factory)

At Dhokshan, Nagarkot (kavre)

Narayan Timilsina. Nanu Tamang is

assisting the team as a volunteers
coordinator.

Photo courtesy: Dhokshan Team

the local residents of that place.

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public speaking and leadership
skills.
Bibeksheel Nepali has taken the
initiative to start the club in
Nepali (Nepali Toastmasters). It
is gradually leading to get more
formalized with the help of
Shangri-La Toastmasters. As
Bibeksheel Nepali is a rising
political force, we wanted to
create leaders who could speak
out their actions. We believe, to
be a national leader, one need to
communicate purely in their
national language. We have a
habit of saturating our Nepali
speeches with English words. To
remove this flaw, and to improve
our Nepali Public speaking skills,

Kapil Karki

Bibeksheel Nepali Active Member Kapil

Karki has left for the educate dolpa
project as a teaching volunteer for 6
month. The Snow Yak Foundation is
founded by Binod Shahi Nepa (the sir
of Himalayas) and a group of young
people to promote and increase access
of quality education in remote districts
of Nepal.
Binod Shahi Nepa along with other
volunteers goes to the remote district
of Dolpa every year to teach the
children there and make quality
education service available for them.
Popularly know as the "Dolpa project"
a solely Nepali funded school has
already been established in the
district.

For more: - www.snowyak.org

1350+
More than 1350 new members
joined Bibeksheel Nepali Party
after earthquake

their Nepali public speaking

skills.
Toastmasters Mission
It empowers individuals to
become more effective
communicators and leaders.

Nepali Toastmaster
By

FAST FACTS

Toastmaster Executive Comittee

Nepali Toastmasters was
initiated in Bibeksheel Nepali.
Every Toastmasters journey
begins with a single speech.
Toastmasters Nepal meets every
week for one and a half hours
and follow a basic agenda
prepared by the club.

1500+

Toastmasters International
Values
Integrity
Respect

More than 1500 volontaires were

associates with Bibeksheel Nepali after
earthquake
MY COUNTRY MY RESPONSIBILITIES
Here are some Bibeksheel values,
we expect each member to live up
to and build our organizational
culture around these values.
FOR MORE:-

Bibeksheel Nepali Values

A toastmaster is a nonprofit
educational organization that
operates clubs worldwide for the
purpose of helping members
improve their communication,

So far weve had four meetings

and a combined attendance of
more than a hundred people.
This club is not only for the ones
who want to be leaders, but for
everyone who want to improve

Service

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Aba K Garne & Cleaning

Campaign
Since 13th June we have been
actively involved in Hanumante River
cleaning program and Aba K Garne

Excellence

a public interaction
program in
Bhaktapur. Abiral
Karki has been the
leader to take this initiative and he is
also the district coordinator there. He

has also set up a Bibeksheel Nepali

Help Desk in Changunarayan, while
the Suryabinayak Help Desk is
headed by Abinash Basnet. A health
camp had also been conducted
recently

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on July 4th in Changunarayan School.

Bibeksheel Nepali Activities

In The Month of June
Nepalese people gather hand in hand around the collapsed Dharahara Tower in Kathmandu on
May 25, 2015, to mark one month since a deadly earthquake struck the country, killing more than
8,600
Kathmandu (AFP) - Hundreds of Nepalese gathered Monday at the rubble of a 19th-century tower in
Kathmandu to mark one month since a devastating earthquake killed more than 8,600 people in the
Himalayan nation. The quake, which was followed by a second major tremor on May 12, brought down
buildings across the country including historic temples, monuments and the much-loved Dharahara tower as
tourists and locals climbed its more than 200 steps. After the national anthem was played on loudspeakers,
crowds surrounded the collapsed tower and observed 56 seconds of silence at 11:56, the moment the 7.8magnitude quake ripped through Nepal on April 25.

OUR CODE OF CONDUCT

By becoming a member of

BibekSheel
Nepali,month
I hereby
Hundreds gather in Nepal capital to mark
one
solemnly pledge to take on the
task of contributing for positive
since quake
change. I understand the

Media Coverage Via: - Business Insider (AFP)

importance of this collective

effort, and I agree to be a
member under the aegis of
principles, values and norms of
the platform. This is important so
that the focus is not lost.
FOR MORE

Bibeksheel Nepali Code Of

Conduct

June 6, Bibeksheel Nepali (BN)

sent relief materials at Gorkha,
Lho VDC, Li village ward 2 & 3,
through helicopter in the

leadership of Pukar Bam and

Milan Pandey.
June 9, BN Distributed Relief
materials to Bal Punarsthapana

tatha Kalyan Kendra

(Orphanage), Bhaktapur in
coordination of Abiral Karki.

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June 13, BN started Aba K
Garne at Bhaktapur in the
initiation of Abiral Karki and will
continue it every week on
Saturday.
BN had also done sanitation
program at Bhairab Temple in
coordination with Gyan Bhairab
Yuwa Club, Gyaneshwor in the
leadership of Milan Pandey.
BN Social Service Club had
organize sanitation programme
at Balaju in the leadership of of
Ranju Neupane (Dharsana)
And BN also conducted Health
Camp at Chaughare, Lalitpur in
coordination with Chitwan School
of Medical Science. Programme
was assisted by Sudeep Acharya
and Pranab Chhetri.
June 14, BN conducted Health
Camp at Daapcha, Kavre in
coordination with Pragya Miron
Organization with the help of
Sudeep Acharya and Pranab
Chhetri.
June 19, 20, 21, BN conducted
Health Camp for Kartikey
Sindhupalchowk in coordination
of Sudeep Acharya for three
days.

June 20 and June28,

Cleanliness programme at
Maitighar was conducted with an
objective of saving and cleaning
the dust and weeds around the
plant. It was planted by Nepal
government before few months.
Abinash Basnet and Prajjwol
Kafle took the initiation of it.

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BIBEKSHEEL NEPALI

Police detain Bibeksheel Nepali

members,leaders
Police detained around two dozen leaders
and cadres of Bibeksheel Nepali party
after they demonstrated demanding
more investment than donations, near
the venue of International Conference on
Nepals Reconstruction, on Thursday.

Find Mentor
We have set a mentoring session twice in
a week- Sundays and Wednesdays at our
office where we opt to give one-to-one
advising/mentoring/feedback session.
For More :- Ideas For Mentorship

June 20 and June 27, BN had

organized Health camp at
Macchegaun and is still
continued on every Saturday, in
the leadership of Bhai Raja
Bhandari
Conducted Local leadership
Training at ward 33 by Govinda
Narayan and Milan Pandey
Cleanliness programme at
Hanumante Khola with the aim of
making the river area clean and
planning to make a garden near
it with the help of local people on
upcoming days was a great start.
Initaiation was done by Abiral
Karki.
BN organized Cleanliness
campaign at Basantapur Durbar
Area by Pukar Bam

Profile In Courage
When a house catches fire, there are two
ways people react. A group of people runs
away, without looking back and the second
type goes to the house on fire to save
people trapped inside.
See more at: Profile In Courage

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International/Strategic
Alliance
Anusa Thapa

In Dec 2014, I was thrilled to know about Bibeksheel

Nepali, a movement by the youths for new beginnings in
the country. Though accidental how I met Ujwal dai, it was
at a right time since I was at a crossroads, after spending
more than 9 years in the US, of what

wanted to do next in my life. Though it was hard to truly

pursue what I wanted in Nepal, Bibeksheel Nepali gave
me a lot of hope and inspiration that there are many
youths like me who feel that we all need to be the uniting
force with the determination to pursue what is right for
the country. I got actively engaged when I started
volunteering of Bibeksheel Nepali on 13 May, a day after
the second big earthquake hit. I immediately got a project
to coordinate all relief efforts from different groups and
organizations. In a collaborative manner, we wanted to
create a platform where everyone could share his or her
information on relief and rehabilitation work. We
connected with 17 organizations and 12 individuals
leading their own groups. Since then, our list of alliances
has been growing. In this collaborative work, we had
major discussions with quakemap.org, sodhpuch.com,
leapfrog and other IT professionals in creating an IT
platform to coordinate all data on relief work between the
different organizations. The open program relievo.org was
created through the works of Mr. Shakti Shrestha
(Shangrila Microsystem), Mr. Dixanta Shrestha (LeapFrog)
and Mr. Tanka Poudel.
We also successfully held a program along with a few other
organizations to inspire and keep the enthusiasm and
strength of volunteerism in youths alive. We had over 300
attendees while 40 unknown faces of volunteers spoke on
their volunteerism experience. You can watch the video in
the Facebook page: Nepali Volunteer (community).
With the upsurge of Bibeksheel Nepali supporters
throughout, there was an increasing need to coordinate with
Nepalese based out of the country, who were also our

strongest benefactors. Hence, I continued to work in

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alliance building and manage our work internationally as
well. Our
international
Bibeksheel
Nepali units
prior to the
Ashish Adhikari
earthquake
were USA, S. Korea, Germany and UAE. Now we have UK
and AUS chapter established. We have interests in Japan,
Malaysia, Qatar, Russia, Ukraine and India for a unit
formation.

Our Bibeksheel Nepali leaders abroad are:

Sanjay Rimal for the USA team, Abhisek Basnyat
for UK, Karma Tamang for the Germany team,
Sujal Shrestha for the UAE team while Kiran
Adhikari has been actively leading South Korea
chapter. It has been great working with
exceptional Nepalese in and out of the country, and I
endeavor to learn more about the different lives of our
Nepalese brother and sisters all over the world and how
Bibeksheel Nepali can help fulfill their dreams for Nepal.

Organizational Structure

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desks understand the vulnerabilities and developing
remedies. Also gradually helping to understand core
area of the desk and overcome task overlapping.

25th April 2015, an evolution in Bibeksheel caused

the realization of professional desks working to
facilitate overall activities. Human resource,
monitoring and control, advocacy and policy,
Finance, Fund raising, International alliance, IT,
Media and Communication, Medical are some of the
major desks working to devise instruments and
policies to frame Bibeksheel activities into a
structure to achieve objectives.
The realization of such desks developed a transition
period which necessitates pragmatic approaches.
Coordination between the desks are being achieved
by regular scrum meeting every day in which we
briefly discuss: what one did yesterday, what one
will do today and what are the plans of tomorrow?
lead by CEO. This meeting is gradually making

We believe in any-time any-where work. This idea

propagated use of information technology; we use
Google docs for day to day works which is creating a
virtual environment and ease in communication. We
share plans, policies, proposals, and schedules and
take approvals making information accessible. This
approach has also made ease to develop a
participative culture in which we ask for feedback
from relevant stakeholders before implementing
them.
Current achievements after professional desks are
volunteer management policy, performance
management system, delegation of authority,
reimbursement of expenses carried by volunteers,
monitoring and control framework, qualitative
expansion in alliancing and fund raising. Framing
policies and SOPs might create some resistance but
our participative approach is gradually evolving us
towards more professional, more accountable, more
reliable, more transparent and more trustworthy
Bibeksheel.