Clean-up Campaign in Changunarayan
Written by: Maartje Geverinck, volunteer from the Netherlands Kay Garnay for Nepal, an NGO registered in Nepal, is the brain child of Amanda Summers, a retired expat living in the Kathmandu Valley. It is a humanitarian, nonprofit agency with the goal of supporting the artists, craftsmen and other residents of Changunarayan, an ancient village in Nepal, as well as those in neighboring communitie s. Clean-up Campaign in Changunarayan People talk about how Nepali are litterbugs and don't care about the environment. There are actually some good reasons for this to appear to be true. First, there are very few sanitary landfills in the entire country. Additionally even municipalities will use the river as dumpsites. We, at Kay Garnay for Nepal, NGO, wanted to clean Changunarayan before the coming festival, Dashain. Our chairperson, Sajana, purchased gloves and other clean-up gear and about 50 people participated in the morning activities. This was our first of such community acti...