Der Blog von Weltweitwandern-Gründer Christian Hlade

Rebuilding the “Happy Bottle Houses” children homes, build new bottle houses and a new school near Kathmandu, support the school in Hile in the “Sherpa-area” near Mt. Everest.

OUR MISSION

Our common mission is to work together to build long-lasting, sustainable and beautiful places to live and to learn for a bright future of Nepal!

OUR VISION

Work together between different cultures, countries and religions.
Create a better world by cooperation and exchanging ideas.
Support values like tolerance, love and mindfulness

Some of the kids of our “Happy Bottle Houses” with hostelmother Mary

WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE

100% of our donations are used directly for the projects!

Our projects are running through a very close partnership between the Nepal-based NGO “PAORC” and the Austrian-based NGO “Weltweitwandern Wirkt!”

We do NOT have to pay for management-costs and travel costs.

All time of project-management is donated by Sudama Karkhi and Christian Hlade.
Both are leading their own tourism-companies and do this NGO-work voluntarily.(Donation of qualified project management time was exceeding 1.000 hours in the first 6 months after earthquake, now it is approx 50-100 hours every month.)

Fundraising and administrative work by “Weltweitwandern Wirkt!” is done free of cost by volunteers.

Weltweitwandern GmbH is financially supporting international and local travel costs of project experts and journalists.

PROJECT HISTORY

PHASE 1 = FAST SUPPORT AFTER THE NATURAL DESASTER

After earthquake we immediately could distribute food and shelter for the effected earthquake victims. We gave out our local trekking equipment, bought things at local market and used our own local teams, cars and busses so we could help extremely fast, much earlier than most of other foreign NGOs!

In addition to our local Nepal-team also befriended guide Hubert Neubauer und Weltweitwandern Nepal product manager Sandra Pieber flew to Nepal only weeks after the earthquake to help to organize help.

At the end we build 120 family accommodations,

We financed and organized a temporary tented school for 500 children

The children of our totally destroyed “happy bottle houses children home” where fist staying in tents, then moved to the temporary repaired existing structure.
Temporary repair was done with plywood and corrugated Iron sheets and is not insulated and not winter-proof.

The Children of “Happy Bottle Houses” by End of Dec. 2015

PHASE 2 = LONG TERM SUSTAINABLE SUPPORT FOR NEPAL

Now we have finished the immediate disaster aid and we move to a long-term support, which is planned as following:

comment: if there is not enough funding available for the 3rd new building now (=temporary school), there is a possibility of using the ground floor of one of the 2 storey-housing buildings as temporary class rooms for one year, still enough housing space for 60 children (incl. Bottlehouse of Construction Phase 0).

School will – at the final stage – host 8 classes plus 3 preschool classes with a total of approx. 400 students

No time pressure, high quality Design wanted

Focus on alternative and sustainable Concept

If possible cooperation with TU Graz in terms of structural engineering

If possible students can also work on the building site and also help to raise donations

Construction Phase A

5 Classrooms, approx. 200m² (each class room 40m²)

Headmaster Office, Teacher Room, approx. 10+30m²

Facilities such as toilets and showers

Sport field

Total approx 300 m2

until April 2017 (School start)

Construction Phase B

3 Classrooms, approx. 120m² (each class room 40m²)

Work shop rooms (for vocational /practical school concept)

Office and Storage

until 2018?

Construction Phase C

4 Classrooms, approx. 160m² (each class room 40m²)

kitchen, eating and studying hall

café, exhibition space, activities

for approx. 300-400 Children

until 2020+?

ARCHITECTURAL PLANNING

Weltweitwandern Wirkt is willing to contribute and to finance the architectural planning of the new school and architectural redesign of the masterplan (which will be finished latest until end of January 2016) for New bottle Houses .
Our aim is to build an example for earthquake resilient buildings with sustainable and natural materials such as bamboo, mud, recycled bottles, etc. The planning will be done by the project team consisting of Nepalese Engineer Bishwa Ram, Nepalese architect Sagar Chitrakar and Austrian architect Johannes Würzler.

Our planning team during discussion

VILLAGE SCHOOL IN HILE (Everest Region)

Weltweitwandern Wirkt supports the reconstruction and improvement of the Village school in Hile and teacher trainings, teacher funding. Project Partner is PAORC . Projectcoordinators are Sonam Sherpa and Sarah Höfler. Good communication is very important!

SOCIAL FUND FOR GUIDES & STAFF

Weltweitwandern Wirkt will support the guides and staff with EUR 29.000.-This is an aid for earthquake loss of property and also to support guides in the critical time after earthquake.
29 guides and staff will be supported as per list given by staff on Dec. 20th 2015
The guides /staff agreed to give the same shares to everybody in the team.
Each of 29 pax staff will get 50% = EUR 500.- (minus tax, if applicable) as a personal help.
The rest = 50% will go into a “Social Staff fund” for:

Earthquake support

Support of staff members or families in case of accident

Emergency aid in case of crisis

To build security and stability

social activities of the whole team

school money for children

fund and money must be managed by the guides /staff themselves

In future ATH/Sudama will also contribute to this fund

The Weltweitwandern – Team in Nepal

EMPOWERMENT 2016

Ladakh – Partner Tsewang Nyamgyal (Issi) was travelling with Weltweitwandern Journalists group in December 2015. Kindly supported by ATH / Sudama. Thank you very much!

Nepal Guide Sonam Sherpa is therefore invited by Tsewang Nyamgyal (Issi) to Ladakh.
There will be a 2 month german training May/ June 2016 in Leh by WWW-teacher Caroline Oedderou. After that Sonam Sherpa can join a Weltweitwandern trekking group as a “trainee assistant.” Weltweitwandern Wirkt will support the flight costs to/from Leh with EUR 400.

Nepal Guide Ashok should work on his German pronunciation.
Also his “team skills” should be a little bit improved.
Weltweitwandern will provide the costs of a 3 weeks german course in Graz and pay and organize a place to stay. We will spend some days with Ashok and try to find additional “german conversation volunteers”. Also we will try to organize invitations by WWW-guests by newsletters / Flight and pocket money for food and travel has to come from Ashok / ATH
Time need to be discussed, please minimum 5-6 months in advance, to allow good planning!
We cannot host him, if we have to little time in advance to plan and prepare.

Our common mission is to work together to build long-lasting, sustainable and beautiful places to live and to learn for a bright future of Nepal!

Thank you for your very kind support!
Financial Help is very much welcome!