In the last two months we have celebrated two very important Nepali festivals. First there was Teej, a festival especially for the girls and women to celebrate.
Then we celebrated Dashain, the biggest festival of the year, which lasts for 10 days and involves a lot of Puja’s and visits to the temples. During Dashian we also give a lot of offerings to the gods, we wear red tikka powder on our foreheads, and we eat lots of special food.
The 14th of April this year signified Nepali New Year, so from all of us at Aishworya we’d like to wish you a very happy 2066!
May also had some big celebrations as Nepal saw in it’s first year as a Republic. It was the first anniversary of the abolition of the monarchy when the Maoist party came to power this time last year.
In April we also celebrated Mother’s Day at Aishworya, and the children made lovely cards for Nirmala, our director and “Aamaa” (Mother).
This March saw the advent of Holi, a fantastic spring festival of colour and water, where everybody throws water balloons and coloured tikka-powder, to herald the return of the rains and the monsoon.
This month we have a slight change to our usual newsletters. As many of you may know, Stephanie, an ex-volunteer at Aishworya, has been working each month with Pramila, our assistant Director, to write and produce our monthly newsletters. However, due to several other commitments, Stephanie is currently unable to devote the time required to work on these newsletters each month. So, starting this month, we plan to condense our newsletters into bi-monthly publications, which will hopefully ease some of the workload, whilst still allowing us to keep you all fully informed of all our activities here at Aishworya!
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This month a record number of tourists visited Nepal. Figures quoted in the newspaper were over 50,000 for October and due to be even higher this month.
In a time of global economic crisis, we are extremely happy that such high tourist numbers will help to boost and stabilize the economy.
This month Nepal celebrated the end of the Dashain festival, and we are glad to announce that the floods in the south and west of Nepal are receding at last. We wish all of the people affected a swift and safe return home.
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From the 19th – 21st September there was intensely heavy rainfall across Nepal, causing huge flash floods and landslides across the western part of Nepal. More than 180,000 people were displaced from their homes, and many entire villages were destroyed.In particular, the district of Kailali was the worst affected, with over 135,000 of the displaced people coming from this area.
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