Actualities

3 full days of visits, meetings and discussions.

22,000 visitors flocked to the show, and fortunately not all of them stopped by our stand!

But during these 3 days, 5 of us, 7 even, were busy full time presenting ANUVAM and its achievements and selling photos and Nepalese handicrafts.

Given the international nature of this Rendez-Vous, we had taken the necessary steps to set up a beautiful stand. It was an opportunity to present the association to a wide audience of frequent travellers, and to raise money for our reconstruction project.

On 26 and 27 May 2018, the General Meeting of our association was held in Hauteluce (Savoie): two very busy half-days to take stock of the actions carried out in the past year and to prepare those for the year to come.
CAPA (Construire et Agir Par l’Architecture), our partner in the reconstruction from the outset, was represented by Vincent Peña (site manager for the reconstruction of 6 earthquake-resistant houses in the village of Rapcha) and Julie Klein (architect).

In Kathmandu, around fifty members of the Basa Khali secondary school alumni association in Rapcha organised a ceremony to express their gratitude for 23 years of support from ANUVAM.

They presented Evelyne Pichenot, President of ANUVAM, with a framed official document.

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.