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30 June 2015 Before giving you our usual update about how funds have been spent over the last few weeks and the giant strides that have been made by our team and local partners, we wanted to set out the text of a dispatch we received from Jimmy Lama, our Country Manager, so you can have a first hand account of the hard work being done on the ground: “It is quarter past 11.00 pm here but our team is still at...
4 June 2015 It has been a busy couple of weeks for MondoChallenge Foundation and our partner organisation, HELP, on the ground in Nepal. This was a chance for the team to consolidate the work they have been doing in the past month, building on successes in providing immediate disaster relief as well as starting to turn towards the next phase of our recovery plan. In terms of relief work, we have continued to distribute shelter kits and solar cells in preparation...
14 May 2015 Many of you will have heard about the major further earthquake that struck Nepal on 12 May, over two weeks after the initial earthquake which devastated the country. We were again in immediate contact with our team on the ground and are relieved to report that they are safe, although they spent the first night in an open camp for fear of further aftershocks. The situation in the villages is unclear, although many people had moved to temporary...
5 May 2015 We have seen an immense amount of progress over the last few days but there is still a huge amount of work to be done. Heartened by the donations, our team in Helambu have broken new ground and reached previously cut-off villages. In doing so, they have been handing out supplies directly funded by our kind donors. Our local team touched based with the Kiul and Helambu Village Development Committees on Thursday (30 April) and returned on Saturday (2...
30 April 2015 It has been a tough few days as news of increasingly desperate circumstances have filtered their way through to the Mondo and HELP teams. Initial reports of villages being totally flattened were verified as the scale of the devastation slowly became clear. In one village, Gunsa, over 50 people have been confirmed dead, at least 15 of those children. In Bhotenamlang there have been around 45 deaths. The list of injured across the valley numbers in the hundreds if not...
25 April 2015 MondoChallenge Foundation has been in immediate contact with our operation in Nepal following the very serious earthquake earlier today. Our local team are taking stock of the situation in Helambu, NE of Kathmandu, and first reports are that considerable damage has occurred and some loss of life. We will be coordinating funding and other support through our extensive network once the situation become clear. 28 April 2015 Following the very serious earthquake on Saturday, we have been in immediate contact...
MondoChallenge Foundation has been working in Nepal for over 10 years on community development programmes focused around schools and capacity building in education in the Helambu region, 80kms North East of Kathmandu. We were shocked and saddened to hear of the devastation caused by the earthquake that hit Nepal on 25 April 2015. On this page we chronicle our efforts, along with those of our local partner in Helambu, the Helambu Education and Livelihood Project (HELP), in providing immediate assistance and...
I joined Mondo Challenge Foundation as Programmes Manager in July 2015. I have worked in development for many years starting as VSO in a remote teacher training college in Vietnam, and working for six years with Concern Worldwide in Mozambique and Uganda. My background is in education, particularly schooling for girls, but I have worked on aid projects of all kinds – for example, last time I was in Tanzania, 24 years ago, it was as a volunteer snorkeler helping...
Iain Parker (Development Manager) spent a few months in Tanzania researching the impact of Mondo’s projects. During his time there, Iain was able to help with the management of projects and spend time with the beneficiaries of Mondo’s work. There were a lot of positives and many grateful recipients, but as is inevitable in a country ravaged by HIV, a number of heart breaking stories. Iain spent most of his time working with the grant and loans program, which works like...
The Foundation was launched in November 2004 and it seems difficult to believe that ten years have sped by as quickly as they have. Just two months after the launch, the tsunami woke us up with a start and we were able to move quickly to help children in badly affected Sri Lankan communities recover their lives. From that dramatic start we have gone on to focus on our core activities of Education and Livelihoods. It’s not easy to know exactly...
