Tarkari Village, originally uploaded by gord clements. A random vegetable market in Kathmandu on a rainy monsoon day.
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Tarkari Village
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My First Kiva Loan
My first Kiva loan is a success and within a week it was distributed to my family of choice in Cambodia… Thank you for your loan. It has been disbursed to Yen Hoeun by Hattha …
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Himalayan Gourmet
From the archives of volunteers past, my colleagues and I have found a really good cookbook for people living and working in the region. Entitled, “Himalayan Gourmet – A Guide to Cooking in Nepal”, this …
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A trip to New Delhi in September
I’m taking a trip to New Delhi on September 29th. More details to come.
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Vancouver on July 25th
I kept hearing stories about what the weather was like in Vancouver that day. Thanks to Google and YouTube, I found out… Amazing….
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Firsts in Hetauda
From July 19th – 27th… Monsoon Beer – First night in Hetauda @ Bastipur Training Centre, I hung outside in the middle of a field with the big boss during a freakish monsoon rainstorm while …
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Got to love those Nepali women
Today, GWP is hosting a HIV/AIDS orientation picnic at a local park where the general public, mostly women attend a fun-filled day of learning about HIV/AIDS in a relaxing outdoor environment. My male GWP counterparts …
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Fighting “Information Poverty” – an article from The Globe and Mail
An interesting topic that has been on my mind for a while… Fighting “Information Poverty” – The Globe and Mail Teaming up with local teleco MTN Uganda and the Grameen Foundation — a non-profit offshoot of Nobel …
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My VSO Partners
After 6 months into my placement, the VSO partners that I will be supporting have been formalized and should keep my plate full for the second half of my placement. General Welfare Pratisthan (GWP) – …
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Test post
I am was doing 43 things.