ORCHID’s
contingent services to the community, inter
alia, included distributing jackets and warm clothes collected from various
donors to the people in some remote villages suffering from the plummeting
temperature in January of 1998. It has also distributed clothes and other basic
need goods to the needy people of different localities in the Kingdom like
Ichangu village, Bungamati, Khokna, Bageshwori, Chhaling. The goods were donated
in kind (no cash) by various individuals and institutions to it.
So far as other
community-based activities in the backward rural areas are concerned, it has
executed a number of such programmes that include afforestation, creating
awareness towards different social issues, counseling programmes relating to
employment generation, education and other social issues, particularly for the
poor, under-privileged families.
With a view to
promoting income-generating activities in the economically backward communities
in Nepal, two families of foster children from Bhangeri, Kabrepalanchok district
were provided with 12 chickens and two makeshift sheds to start poultry
business. Asian Friends’ Gobo, Japan financed it.
With the aim of
boosting the morale of the national football team on the eve of the SAF (South
Asian Federations) Games held in Kathmandu, ORCHID organized a reception
programme on Sunday Sept 12, 1999 at Sudal village in Bhaktapur district. At the
function, the children under ORCHID’s FCU programme were offered an
opportunity to interact with the national football players in a homely
atmosphere. On the same occasion, Nepal’s national booters, the ORCHID members
and the students of the village also played a friendly match. The programme was
prominently telecast by Nepal Television, Nepal’s only national television,
the following Saturday with a special report.
For the aim of the
effective management of the ORCHID’s activities both internal and
external to materialize, a
training-cum-workshop on Project Planning for its executive members was
organized by Arhan Sthapit. The in-house training programme was held on August
7, 1999 (Shrawan 22, 2056).
Likewise, to educate the executive members towards meeting procedures, Sajib Bajracharya conducted the Meeting Procedures Training on September 8, 1999.