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More than 20,000 clothes collected for the people of Mugu
Space Time Dainik
7th Poush 2058, 22nd Dec 2001
Coordinated by 'Nepali for Nepali Cooperation Committee-Nepal' including Nepal Scout and other organization, collecting clothes for Mugu has came to an end.
"These collected clothes will be distributed around 15th Poush, 30th Dec, to the people living in Himalayan area of Mugu District", said Shiv Ram Aryal of Nepal Scout.
"This is the first time held program in Coordination with Human Rights and Environment Development Center-Mugu, Nepali for Nepali Cooperation Committee-Nepal, in association with OnlyAtNepal Pvt. Ltd. for the people who doesn't have warm clothes. We scout fully support it for that ", continued Aryal.
"We started late but we are satisfied that we achieve our goal", said Sudarshan Gautam, coordinator of Nepali for Nepali Cooperation Committee-Nepal.
"After emergency there are lots of trouble but army had given written permission to transport the clothes in Mugu", said Raju Karki, president of Human Rights and Environment Development Center-Mugu.
More clothes for Mugu peopleHimalayan News Service
Kathmandu, December 15
Two rallies were held in Jorpati and New Baneshwor on Saturday to mark the conclusion of the clothes collection drive that started around three weeks before. The drive aims to serve around 19,000 of the most deprived citizens in seven Villages Development committees of Mugu where the winter is concerned to be particularly severe.
During the campaign, around 20,000 clothing items have been collected, informed Sudarshan Gautam, coordinator of Nepali Cooperation Committee for Nepal, which is the main organiser.
The rally from Jorpati to Tusal conducted by Nepal Scout fetched two sacks of clothing and cash Rs 1402.
The rally at New Baneshwor sported around 100 volunteers who collected clothing from houses in ward no. 10 of New Baneshwor, spanning mid Baneshwor, Baneshwor Height, Buddhanagar, Bijuli Bazaar and Baneshwor chowk.
Clothes collected for the people of MuguHimalayan News Service
Kathmandu, November 26
The first activity of clothes collection for charity to the Mugu village took place in Basantapur Durbar Square of the capital on Monday. Sumitra Tiwari donated the first piece of clothing.
Mayor of the Kathmandu Metropolitan Corporation Keshav Sthapit, who officially inaugurated the programme which would mark the beginning of the ward level charitable collection, did not bring clothes from home on Monday, but promised to donate clothes at his ward soon. "Sending clothes to the people of Mugu is not the big thing ," said Sthapit. He believes this small action of charity would establish the foundation for further rehabilitation works for the deprived.
The Nepali for Nepali Cooperation Committee Nepal, in collaboration with nearly 15 other institutions including Worldlink Communication and Red Cross is organising this programme which came to after Raju Karki, president of the Human Rights and Environment Development Center, Mugu approached 'OnlyAtNepal Pvt. Ltd.,' a private organisation with the proposal.
"The programme has been implemented today as a result of three months of planning and preparation," said karki. The clothes that will be collected in the following weeks are expected to cover seven villages development committees (VDCs) in Mugu, and in the case of leftovers, those would be distributed in five VDCs in Karnali as well as in Manang.
The collected items would be transported in a bus to Surkhet and then flown to Mugu in a helicopter, informed Karki. He also said that the organisers were trying to eke out discounts and or find sponsors for the flights, otherwise the expenses would be borne by OnlyAtNepal (OAN).
Nijib Shakya, marketing officer at OAN and Abid Shah from the same institution informed that the organisers planned to transport the collected clothes to Mugu in the first week of Poush and provide for an estimated 19,000 of the 42,000 people of Mugu of the total 24 wards there.
Mugu is said to have very harsh winter climate. People have died in previous year because of the lack of warm clothes.
Mugu citizens seek help from NepaleseKathmandu Post
Kathmandu, Nov 11
As the government has failed to provide necessary subsidy to the poor and remote district of the country, a Non Government Organization finally tried to collect help from the domestic sources so that the people of the unproductive district could find a beacon of hope.
To Nepali for Nepali Help Committee (NNHC) have started a campaign of collecting second hand clothes, shoes, blankets and other things of daily use with a view of distributing them to the poor people living in the remotest district of Mugu.
NNHC disclosed it at a press conference held Sunday in the capital. According to NNHC, an organization consisting of INGOS, NGOs, social organization and private companies, it will collect the used clothes and sent it to Mugu district. The organizers said the collected items would be sent to the fate- stricken remote district "as soon as possible".
Raju Karki, President of Human Rights and Development Center, Mugu said that one Nepali should help another Nepali in anyway. "Nepali should help Nepali is our motto", he added.The capital is moving towards the 21st century technology but the literacy rate of the Mugu is only 19 per cent and that is also a right of only men and women have little access to education.
"The life expectancy of this district is only of 36 years whereas the national figure mounts as much as 57 years." Karki said.
State minister for Local Development, Duryodhan Singh and Badri Narayan Basnet, Vice president of Social Welfare Council inaugurated the program.
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