On Saturday 23 June, it organised a baroque concert given by the Chœur des Puys in the church of Saint-Genès-Champanelle, in aid of two associations including ANUVAM.
We would like to extend our warmest thanks to Claudine Darrigrand, President of the Chœur des Puys, as well as Catherine de Marnhac, the choirmaster, and all the choristers.
For more than 20 years, the association “Au Népal, Un Village, une Amitié en Marche (ANUVAM)”, set up by a group of hikers, has built up a relationship of friendship and solidarity with a community in a mid-mountain village in the Solu Khumbu, south of Everest.This Rapcha Basa village, inhabited mainly by the Khaling Rai ethnic group and almost 20% by Magar, lies along the deep Dudh Khosi river and practises staggered self-subsistence farming. Small farmers, they occasionally hire out their strength as porters to supply other villages or lead treks.
The village has only been accessible by jeep since the end of 2017.
Evelyne Pichenot
… Led by its president Évelyne Pichenot, the association held its general meeting at the Infernet leisure centre this weekend, which was also an opportunity to invite other humanitarian associations to come and present their various initiatives to the public…
Asherman is the mayor of sector 2 (Rapcha) of the new 7-sector Dudh Khosi Rural Municipality, elected for a 5-year term.
They presented Evelyne Pichenot, President of ANUVAM, with a framed official document.
26 and 27 May 2018 IN HAUTELUCE
(Savoie region)
Info: on the Members’ Area
After more than a decade without having been to Nepal, my first impressions of this trip in March 2018 are marked by astonished looks that are often pleasantly surprised by recent or ongoing developments, particularly in the village of Basa-Rapcha.
At other times, I was dismayed by the after-effects of the earthquakes on the monuments and in the neighbourhoods of the towns in the Kathmandu valley, by the extreme levels of air pollution in Kathmandu and by the piles of rubbish and the invasion of plastic waste that is spreading unchecked.
The reconstruction of the third planned house, that of Doma Laxmi Rai and her children, was completed during their stay after just 15 days of work. The team of craftsmen has fully assimilated the principles of earthquake-resistant construction, and the quality improves with each new house.
Vincent will return just before Christmas after supervising the reconstruction of two other houses (Man Bir and Deepa Rai’s and Maïti Rai’s).
RECONSTRUCTION: CAPA will provide technical support to rebuild two houses using earthquake-resistant principles and local techniques.
TRAIN village technicians in earthquake-resistant techniques, as well as 4 technical leaders who will be able to pass on these techniques. To this end, a construction manual will be produced as a teaching aid for the technicians.
MAKE all residentsaware of the importance of earthquake-resistant construction. The aim is to give them the keys to understanding the importance of taking account of seismic risk in construction, and to call on the services of trained technicians.
In the first part, we presented a slide show on the reconstruction of the house in Shokal.
And on Thursday 28 September, we were invited to the town hall in Saint Genès Champanelle to receive a cheque from Claudine Darrigrand, President of Espoir et Solidarité, accompanied by a delegation from the association.
Then, in April-May, the craftsmen trained by Vincent applied on their own what they had learned alongside him. They built Jange MAGAR’s house. A team of around ten workers took part in the reconstruction over a 4-week period. As Jange’s family is one of the poorest in the village, the workers offered 24 days of voluntary work.
First local elections in 20 years in Nepal
key stage in the country’s political stabilisation, results in Rapcha
After the promulgation of a new Constitution in Nepal in September 2015, local elections were finally held, after 20 years of turmoil, in May and June 2017, in all the country’s local authorities with three forces in attendance, the Congress party, the Marxist-Leninists and the Maoists.
According to our local Nepalese correspondents, voters in the new Rapcha/Basa municipality have nominated Tej Bahadur Magar, well known to our association as Asarman and head of the local association “Motherland Improvement Club” or MIC, as the representative of the section or Ward 2 located in Rapcha.
