ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION AND AWARENESS

RURAL ELECTRIFICATION THROUGH RENEWABLE ENERGY

COMMUNITY SUPPORT OR EMPOWERMENT

ADVOCACY

ANIMAL WELFARE

ECO-FRIENDLY DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT

SCHOOL SUPPORT

ECO-SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT

SCHOOL GREEN CLUB DEVELOPMENT

MEDIA EMPOWERMENT

ECO-TOURISM PROMOTION

DOCUMENTARY FILM PRODUCTION

TRAVEL RESEARCH

FRIENDS OF TNW

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND AWARENESS
TNW Nepal is conducting educational programs on a wide range of environmental issues targeting school children, youths and the general public.

Awareness through drama shows or street theatre
TNW Nepal is the first environmental group in Nepal to create awareness on environmental issues through DRAMA SHOWS and STREET THEATRE which is a highly creative, effective medium of awareness and based on the concept of infotainment.

TNW Nepal has its own theatre group which consists of professional theatre artists.
The theatre group has the following members
Concept and story: B K Dalit
Drama Directors and script writers: Mr. J B Ruwaali and Mr. Rabindra Baniya

Awareness through documentary film shows
TNW Nepal along with several environmental groups creates awareness on environmental issues through documentary film shows. The films have been promoted and supported by the Nepal Tourism Board.

TNW Nepal is also making a documentary film on climate consequences entitled “Ready to Die?”

Awareness through eco-competitions
TNW Nepal conducts eco-competitions like Inter-School Quizzes, Poem Writing and Music Competitions amongst schools to sensitize the children to environmental issues.

Awareness through interaction based talk shows
Since its inception, TNW Nepal with the support of Nepal Nature Dot Com has been organizing an interaction based talk show once in a month with the involvement of youths and college students.

Awareness through workshops and seminars
Since its inception, TNW Nepal has been educating the youths on a range of environmental problems through workshops, summits and other programs.

Awareness through eco-campaigns
TNW Nepal has been working to sensitize the general public on environmental issues through eco-rallies, working in conjunction with several environmental organizations including WWF Nepal, IUCN, ICIMOD and the Ministry of Environment.

Awareness through public meetings
TNW Nepal raises environmental issues in rural communities through public meetings in their own communities.

RURAL ELECTRIFICATION THROUGH RENEWABLE ENERGY

Project area: Gaurishankar VDC, Dolakha District, Nepal.

With an objective to open the door of real development in rural areas, TNW Nepal has taken an initiative to generate electricity for rural communities through micro hydropower, solar systems and peltry set system development.

The main objective of this program is to give light to the people living in the dark, to discourage the people from burning fossil fuels and to generate awareness amongst the people of the use and value of renewable energy for a safer planet. TNW Nepal promotes the eco-project of rural electrification with the use of natural resources.

Currently, TNW Nepal is going to generate 16 KW of electricity for ward nos 5-9 of Gaurishankar VDC through micro hydropower.

Why did we choose this VDC?
A few years back, a group of youths associated with TNW Nepal visited a highly rural Himalayan region (Gaurishankar and Lamabagar VDCs) located in Dolakha district to conduct rural awareness program on environmental issues like water and sanitation, forest conservation. They found that the poor and backward people of these two VDCs were still living in the dark, without electricity. They were found to be using firewood not only for cooking but also for light. They witnessed deforestation on a massive scale due to household purposes. Despite having natural resources like streams to generate electricity, the VDCs were not being able to generate electricity through the streams due to lack of guidance and support.

During a public meeting, the villagers requested TNW Nepal to help them generate light through micro hydropower. In return, they promised to protect the environment and prevent further deforestation. The team was impressed and agreed and moved forward with the rural electrification.

Neither the government nor any NGOs/INGOs had yet reached these two VDCs with environmental conservation and sustainable development projects. These two VDCs are still considered as some of the most rural and backward VDCs in Nepal due to the lack of developmental activities.

Micro hydropower project in Gaurishankar VDC
TNW Nepal took an initiative to form a User Group of local youths after a public meeting of the villagers. There was a participation of representatives from all political parties and villagers from this VDC during the public meeting to form the User Group. A User Group was formed called the Tashinaam Gonwakhola Micro hydropower Project User Group (TGMPUG). The objective of forming the user group was to involve the community people in the developmental program so that they could also feel a sense of ownership and responsibility towards the activities.

The User Group was formed by villagers of Gaurishankar VDC Ward nos 5 - 9. These wards are the most backward areas of this VDC.

After the User Group was registered in the District Administration Office, TNW Nepal took an initiative to raise funds from the VDC office. Upon the request of TNW Nepal, the VDC office granted four lakhs to the User group. TNW Nepal now is seeking funds from the donor communities to light the five wards where more than 200 families are living in complete darkness.

TNW Nepal and the User Group (TGMPUG) have carried out a detailed survey of the Micro-hydropower project.

Solar panel distribution and installation
TNW Nepal has helped the rural villages of Dolakha district to get the solar panel for light. Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) under Nepal Government bears the half cost and each individual has to pay the remaining cost for the solar panel. TNW Nepal has helped to distribute and install the solar panels to the homes of the villagers.

This program is carried out as part of the Renewable Energy Promotion Campaign of TNW Nepal.

COMMUNITY SUPPORT PROGRAMS
“A program to support (empower)community stakeholders and encourage them in educating their children and environmental management and conservation.”

Program areas: Three VDCs: Lamabagar, Gaurishankar and Sunkhani (a Thami community).
TNW Nepal thinks that environment conservation at community level is impossible without supporting and empowering the community especially the women from poor and backward family backgrounds. TNW Nepal supports the community to improve their living standard with the proper management, utilization and conservation of natural resources in a sustainable way.If the community people are empowered to enable them earn more,they will be able to afford for their children's education.If children got educated then they would be a real leader to develop the community and save the environment.

The main objective behind this Community Support(Empowerment) Program with the use of local natural resources is to make the people financially capable to afford for the education of their children.

Support Program for Women
Women in rural areas are the main people who do household chores like cooking, collecting firewood from the jungle, farming and fetching drinking water. Most of the women in rural areas are illiterate and have no income of their own.

In order to help rural women manage and conserve the environment, TNW Nepal focuses on women’s empowerment by:

1) Providing informal environmental education (water and sanitation, forest conservation, organic farming etc.)
2) Making the women well equipped with knowledge, technical skills and resources (through education, training and investment grants) so that they can generate their own income.
2) Encouraging and supporting the women to cultivate plants of medicinal value in a sustainable way, to grow vegetables and fruits that could give them higher income and for poultry farming and animal husbandry.

Support Program for Men
1) Providing informal education along with environmental education
2) Providing technical skills and income generating training in areas like construction (Bar Bender, Brick Molder, Building painter, Concrete layer, Construction carpenter etc.), electrical and electronics .

Support Program for Youths
Most of the rural youths are semi-educated. Even if they are educated, they lack adequate skills to make a living on their own. Because of this fact, youth unemployment is on the rise in the country. This has led to social instability and a wide range of social problems. Therefore, TNW Nepal works to empower the rural youths with technical education and training which allows them to earn on their own but also reduces the unemployment problem in the country. Unemployment is the biggest threat to Nepal’s peace, stability and development.

Support Program for Children
Most of the children from poor and backward families are found to have dropped out of school after the primary level due to poverty. Some parents do not send their daughters to school as the parents do not see any importance in educating their daughters as generally the daughters will get married and go to another’s house one day. Therefore, TNW Nepal supports for education of the children from poor and backward families. TNW Nepal also encourages children in environmental management and conservation.

Support for Community Infrastructure Development
TNW Nepal supports the community in developmental activities like road, bridge and school construction in a way that does not harm the environment. The prime objective behind community support programs is to motivate the community on environmental management and conservation. Currently, TNW Nepal is running the community support programs in rural communities of the Dolakha district only.

Women’s Income Enhancement Program
This program is a part of the Community Support Program with the objective to enhance the livelihood of the poor and backward people, especially the women living in highly rural communities, where the government and the social organizations have not been able to reach with developmental activities.

TNW Nepal being an environmental organization, wants to bring the community people towards environment conservation by making them happy with income generation opportunities.

Project areas:

1. Thami village
Thami communities are located in Sakhalpu and Pipaldada, ward no 2 of Sunkhani VDC of Dolakha district. There are 22 households of the Thami caste. Additionally, there are three households of Kaami and two households of Sarki. Kami and Sarki are considered Dalit communities. Thirty households are considered very poor families.Thami communities are socially opressed and disadvantaged.Likewise,Sarki and Kami are considered as the socially and culturally discriminated.They are regarded as untouchables in the community.
In 1995, there were heavy floods which swept away the Jhyakur village of this VDC. Since then, the Thami people displaced by the flood have been living on others’ land. They are farming on others’ agricultural land and trying to make their livelihood. Most of them do not have their home on their own land. 50% of the children of the Thami community study at Saraswati Vidya Mandir and 50% do not attend school due to poverty. TheThami community does not have access to drinking water.
Village breakdown: Thami - 22 households
Sarki - 2 households
Kami - 3 households
The poor 30 households
57 households

2. Riku Village
The project area: Riku village.
Riku village is the most remote and backward village of Gaurishankar VDC of Dolakha district. There is no easily accessible road to reach this village from the nearby villages. That’s why it is considered a highly remote village. This village has only 10 households. The main source of livelihood is agriculture. The agricultural production is not enough for the villagers to survive and fulfill the basic needs of the people. They are also having a hard time with agricultural production due to a lack of irrigation facilities. Therefore, the villagers make local wine with raw materials like damaged beaten rice and rice and sell the wine to nearby village called Tashinaam. They have to walk for two days to collect the raw materials from another village called Singati. Tashinaam village is one of the camping sites for tourist visiting the Rolwaling valley.

The people of this village are so poor that they cannot afford their children’s education so the children of this village have generally been unable to continue their education after three class. There is a primary school up to three grade I which but they have no teacher. A lady educated at the same school up to three grade working as a peon at the school has been teaching the students.

There are no toilets in this small village as they cannot afford to build them. The people instead use the agricultural land for their toileting. The whole village does not have access to water. They have to walk 15min to fetch water from the nearby stream, which is especially hard on the women in the village who have the chore of collecting this water. The villagers are still living without electricity. They are even unable to purchase solar panels despite the fact that the government pays half the cost.

They know that they can enhance their livelihood by poultry farming, raising cattle, cultivating vegetables and plants of medicinal values but they do not have finance to invest and infrastructure for water and irrigation. If they are supported, they have also made a commitment to adopt organic farming and organize tree planting to increase green areas in the village.

ADVOCACY
TNW Nepal has been strongly advocating on environmental issues to draw the attention of concerned governmental bodies.

The advocacy is being done through article writing in the largest selling daily newspaper of Nepal, The Kathmandu Post, organizing rallies and direct meetings with the concerned governmental bodies.

TNW Nepal recently met with Minister of Environment,Mr.Ganesh Shah and drew his attention on environmental degradation of the country.

ANIMAL WELFARE PROGRAM
Being one of the organizations actively and strongly working for animal welfare, World Society for Protection of Animals (WSPA) has granted a national membership to TNW Nepal. Likewise, the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC), a governmental body, has also joined hands with TNW Nepal to educate the school children on animal welfare issues. TNW Nepal has carried out education programs for school children and talk shows for youths on wildlife conservation jointly with DNPWC. TNW Nepal is conducting “School education on wildlife conservation” program with DNPWC. TNW Nepal in coordination with WSPA also carries out rescue operations for injured or victimized animals during natural disasters or other incidents.

ECO-FRIENDLY DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
For the first time in Nepal, TNW Nepal has taken the initiative to make each and every district an environment friendly district of Nepal.
Concept: After consultation with the TNW affiliated young environmental activists and experts from all the 75 districts of Nepal, TNW Nepal came to the conclusion that Nepal is rapidly losing its natural resources and facing the challenges posed by global climate change. We are the main agent behind the destruction of natural resources which has led to natural disasters on a massive scale. Each year, nearly 400 people lose their lives and thousands are displaced due to natural disasters. Additionally, global climate change has made the livelihood of the rural people harder day by day despite the fact that Nepal has minimal green house gas emissions. Keeping these bitter facts in mind, TNW Nepal has decided to launch a national campaign to make people aware about environmental issues. The campaign aims to travel all the districts with eco messages and to make each and every district an environment friendly district. To begin the campaign, TNW Nepal has chosen Dolakha district to make the first eco friendly district in Nepal. This is the district where TNW Nepal has started its environment and developmental projects. There are 75 districts in the country.

TNW Nepal’s initiative widely welcomed in the district
Dolakha district is going to be transformed into the first environment friendly district of Nepal by 2010. TNW Nepal’s initiative to make Dolakha a neat, clean, green, waste free and environmental destruction free district in Nepal has been widely appreciated by all the stakeholders and the people of the district.

In this regard, TNW Nepal organized a stakeholders meeting on 10 December 2008 in Charikot, the district headquarters of Dolakha. The Chief District Officer inaugurated the program by planting a tree just in front of his office and signing a white cloth to extend support in this eco-campaign. The District Administration Office, District Development Office, District Police Office, Nepal Army, Civil Society, four Political Parties, Nepal Federation of Journalists, Dolakha, some other governmental and nongovernmental organizations and general public including a large number of local youths have made a written commitment to make Dolakha district an environment friendly district of Nepal.

TNW Nepal also issued a “Dolakha Eco-Declaration” at a press conference held on 12 December in coordination with the Nepal Federation of Journalists, Dolakha. In this declaration, TNW Nepal has made public the environmental programs to be carried out within two years to make the district free from waste and environmental destruction. For two years, TNW Nepal will focus on environmental awareness especially in all 51 VDCs of the district. The awareness areas include water and sanitation, forest conservation, organic farming, conservation and the sustainable cultivation of medicinal plants.

Dolakha Environment Friendly District Declaration 2008
1. TNW Nepal in coordination with Dolakha’s youths will carry out environmental awareness programs for two years so as to inspire, educate and sensitize the people to environmental issues
2. TNW Nepal will carry out community clean up campaigns regularly to make the district free from waste
3. TNW Nepal will celebrate District Water and Sanitation Days once in a year so as to create awareness on the importance of fresh water and good sanitation.
4. TNW Nepal will carry out awareness programs to discourage the people from throwing waste on the road.
5. TNW Nepal will carry out awareness programs about the adverse impacts of plastics on the environment
6. TNW Nepal will take an initiative to celebrate District Tree Day once a year to encourage the people to conserve existing forest and increase forest coverage in the district.
7. TNW Nepal will form a “School Green Club” in every school of the district and help the clubs to run environmental programs
8. TNW Nepal will organize youths’ empowerment programs to empower the youths on environment conservation and sustainable development.
9. TNW Nepal will work in coordination with Nepal Federation of Journalist, Dolakha to educate the media about the environment.
10. TNW Nepal will promote Dolakha as an eco-tourism based tourist destination.
11. TNW Nepal will build the first eco-school in this district. This would be the first of its kind in the country.

TNW Nepal’s plans for two years to make Dolakha an environment friendly district
1. VDC education program on water and sanitation through workshop
We want to carry out awareness campaigns in all the 51 VDCs and research about the problems being faced by the community
2. Litter free district headquarters
Awareness through community meeting
Regular cleanup Campaign
Placement of dustbins (having three spaces for separation of wastes at source level) at some places
Hoarding Board (Let’s make our district environment friendly district by……)
3. District Plastic Free Day
Rally and public meeting to discourage the people from using plastic
4. District Tree Day
To encourage the people to conserve the forest and plant more trees
5. School Green Club
To set up school green club at each and every school
6. Media Empowerment
To empower the media on environmental issues so that the media can pass on reliable information to the people.
7. Eco-school building
To construct an eco-school building at the district so that others will also do the same
8. Green Rural Development
Micro hydropower project development
Let’s make Dolakha district the first environment friendly district of Nepal together!

SCHOOL SUPPORT PROGRAM
During the three years’ experience of TNW Nepal while conducting school education on environmental issues, the organization learnt that if we want an effective educational program on environmental issues at rural schools, the schools at first needs to be in good physical condition. Otherwise educating the children to manage and save the environment will not bring about any change. Therefore, TNW Nepal has come up with this school support program to make rural schools (where the students from socially oppressed and poor family study) well equipped with the required infrastructure so that the students will get a conducive and supportive environment to study in.

The main objective of this program is to inspire the school children for environment management and conservation.

TNW Nepal is launching this program in three ways:
1) School Support through Infrastructure development
2) School Support through students’ education
3) School Support through teacher empowerment
School Support through Infrastructure development

TNW Nepal with the support of other organizations takes an initiative to build infrastructure like toilets, water taps for drinking water, libraries, play grounds etc.

School Support through students’ education
Most of the children of community schools in rural areas are from poor and disadvantaged families. Due to poverty, the children are forced to drop out of school. Some children are orphans. Even if such children join school, they find hard to continue their school due to a lack of educational materials like pencils, pens, notebooks, uniform, school bag etc. TNW Nepal tries to support such children with their education so that the children can one day be guardians of the planet.

School Support through teacher empowerment
Most of the teachers at community schools of rural areas are untrained and ill-equipped to provide a quality education for their students. The intellectual strength and growth of creativity of the students depends on the ability of the teacher. If teachers are empowered then the children will be empowered. That’s why, TNW Nepal works to empower the teachers with required knowledge and skills. During environmental education tours at rural schools, TNW Nepal found that most of the English teachers were too weak in English language. They need English language training so that they can make their students competent enough to communicate with the whole world. Along with English language training, TNW Nepal also makes the teachers well equipped with environmental knowledge and skills so that the teacher(being an eco-teacher) can guide the students for environmental management and conservation.

TNW Nepal is planning to launch a School Support Program in this school.

Saraswati Vidya Mandir
This primary school is located in Sunkhani VDC ward no 2, Dolakha district. This school runs classes up to five grade. This school is considered as the school of Thami children and the poor children. There is another private school nearby where the children from middle income families study. The gap between the poor and the rich could be seen from the two schools located within the same locality. There are 95 students at the school. Most of the students (35 children) hail from the Thami community. This caste is considered as one of the socially oppressed ones in Nepal. Four children are from the Dalit community and the remaining 56 are from poor family backgrounds. Most of the students are from poor or socially discriminated backgrounds and some are orphans.

There is no toilet for the students and they do not have access to drinking water. The students have to walk a distance of 30 minutes to fetch water for the school. The parents of the students are so poor that they cannot afford to buy the notebooks, pens and pencils for the children. The parents still do not have consciousness to send their daughters to school. They do not educate their children after five grade due to poverty. There is no system of scholarship for the Thami children so the number of Thami children attending the school is decreasing.

ECO-SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
An initiative to build the country’s first eco-school as part of a national campaign for eco-schools

TNW Nepal is building the country’s first eco-school which will be the model school for other schools in Nepal. The school will be a learning room where the students can learn from the school infrastructure about environment management and conservation. School is considered as the temple of knowledge or education. The knowledge makes everyone a good human being who can serve society and the nation. The kind and quality of knowledge to be gained by the individual depends on the physical and natural environment of the school. If the environment of having knowledge is good then it can shape the future of the individual, society, nation and the whole planet accordingly. For rural communities, a school with quality infrastructure is necessary. But the school buildings of most of the rural and backward areas are really poor in infrastructure. Because of this fact, the students in such community schools are being deprived of good education in comparison to that of students in urban areas. This is also one of the factors that has led to a gap between the rich and the poor. In line with the physical environment, the natural environment of the school should also be of good quality as this increases the mood of the children, aids relaxation and allows the children to learn more easily. Therefore, it is important to have good physical and natural environment at a school if the students are to be made good human being.

Taking all the above facts into consideration, TNW Nepal is working on building the first eco school in the district. When this type of eco-school is built, the school building not only becomes the place of teaching and learning but also could become the source of environmental knowledge through its own environmental infrastructure. In accordance with the declaration made by TNW Nepal for making Dolakha district (one of the 75 districts in Nepal) as the first environment friendly district of Nepal, TNW Nepal has also planned to build eco-schools in the district. In this respect, TNW Nepal is on a campaign to build the first eco-school at one of the highly rural and backward VDCs of Dolakha district called Lamabagar VDC. This VDC is also placed in the second category by the Government of Nepal in terms of remoteness and backwardness.

About the school going to be the first eco-school of the country
The name of the school is Gaurishankar Secondary School. This school is located in Lamabagar VDC ward no 9. The school is reached via a dangerous 30km bus journey from Charikot to Singati and then an 8 hour walk. This school was established in 2002.
The school provides education to about 392 students from class one to class ten who live in four(4) nearby VDCs, and benefits about 2500 households.

The school is in a dilapidated condition without sufficient classrooms. At present, inadequate classrooms, very poor physical facilities and a generally poor learning environment is making hard for the students to have good education. Due to the inadequate classrooms, the children are also forced to study in the open air on the school ground. The school also lacks sufficient infrastructure like desks and benches.
The school does not have a toilet for the students or water access which has created a sanitation problem. Many students, especially girls, are found to have dropped out of school due to the toilet problem. The students are found to have used plant leaves as a toilet paper due to not having water after toilet. This has not only deteriorated the school environment but also the health of school children.

Why did TNW Nepal decide to construct an eco-school?
Being an environmental organization, TNW Nepal gives priority to the environment while carrying out developmental projects like the construction of the physical infrastructure like school buildings. TNW Nepal wants to carry out developmental activities without harming the natural environment and teach the same lesson to the children to respect the environment. Therefore, TNW Nepal has come up with this project of constructing the school building to provide a conducive physical environment to the children and to teach them to be conscious on environmental issues as well.

Why did TNW Nepal decided to construct the eco-school in Dolakha district?
TNW Nepal is on a campaign to make Dolakha as the first environment friendly district of Nepal within two years. Building an eco-school in this district is one of the declarations of this campaign.

Why did TNW Nepal choose Gaurishankar Secondary School for the eco-school?
During 2008 TNW Nepal visited this school to organize a school awareness campaign on environmental issues. While educating and sensitizing the school children on natural environment, the children were found to have more worried about the school’s physical environment. The school building was in a dilapidated condition and close to collapse (the building has now collapsed). The building could cause huge casualties if it collapsed on a school day. Additionally the school did not have adequate class rooms so the children were found to be taking class on the school ground. We taught school children on water and sanitation but they reported back with the water and sanitation problem at school.

Then we realized that the process of education cannot be effective for the children if the school does not have a sound physical and natural environment. That’s why, TNW Nepal has decided to build this school as an eco-school which will not only be physically well equipped and but also be equipped with environmental infrastructure.

Were there any conditions put forth by TNW Nepal to school to help build the school?
Yes, TNW Nepal has imposed some conditions on the school before TNW Nepal took the initiative to build the school. The main condition to be fulfilled by the school is that the school carries out environmental campaigns like tree planting, school and community clean up campaigns, maintaining a plastic free school and the formation of a school green club.

Has the school made a written commitment to contribute on environment conservation and management after the school is constructed?
Yes, the school has made written commitment on following things:

A) Environmental concerns
1) The school will form a school green club in coordination with TNW Nepal to encourage and involve the school children in environmental activities
2) The school will discourage the children using plastic at school
3) The school will organize a community clean up campaign once a week and include the community people
4) The school will organize a tree planting day twice a year to increase forest coverage in the area
5) The school will organize several competitions on environmental subjects every month
6) The school will appoint a person for maintaining cleanliness at school

B) Physical concerns
1) The school will provide the land for constructing the building
2) The school will manage the wood without any royalty from Community Forest User Group. In turn, the school will plant trees in the community forest.
3) The school will manage the stone for building construction without any charge

What type of infrastructure will the eco-school have?
1) The school building will have rain water harvesting system so that the students will learn the lesson on water conservation at school.
2) The school building will have more windows of glass so as to have more light and fresh air
3) The school building will have solar panel for light so that the students will learn about the renewable energy
4) The school will have a dust bin with three spaces (where three types of wastes like degradable, non degradable and recyclable waste will be put in) so that the students will learn to separate the wastes at school
5) The school will have a place to make the school’s degradable waste into compost so that the students will learn about compost and organic farming
6) The school will have its land to use for cultivating green vegetables, indigenous plants of medicinal importance by using the compost generated through school waste
7) The school surroundings will have hoarding boards in which environmental messages will be written like wash your hand after toilet and before eating with soap and water…….No to plastic….Don’t litter everywhere…..plant more and more trees.
The organization which supports this eco-school development program will be honored as a partner in Eco-district Development Campaign of Dolakha district.

DISTRICT-WIDE SCHOOL GREEN CLUB DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Program area: Dolakha district

If you think for one year ,plant rice.
If you think for ten years ,plant trees.
If you think for hundred years ,educate the children.
The main objective of this program is to create awareness amongst school children on environmental issues and enable them to carry out environmental activities regularly at school by forming a school green club at all the schools of this district.

As a pilot project,TNW Nepal is going to carry out environmental awareness and green club development programs at all the secondary schools of Dolakha district. There are 45 (40 community and 5 private) secondary schools in the district. There is no single such club at any schools of this whole district.

Formation of school green clubs at all secondary schools of this district is one of the declarations made by TNW Nepal as part of the Dolakha Eco-district Development Program.

MEDIA EMPOWERMENT
Media is the strong source of education or awareness.The media people working in environmental reporting are not environmental experts.If the media people are empowered with adequate knowledge on environmental issues then they can educate and inform the people effectively.The media can educate and sensitize a large number of people with more creative and effective way.
During the course of Eco-district development tour in Dolakha, The Nepal Federation of Journalists (Dolakha district chapter) requested TNW Nepal for taking a leading initiative to empower the media people on environmental issues.
That’s why, TNW Nepal has come up with a project of empowering the media people so that the media will effectively educate the people on environmental issues.

DOCUMENTARY FILM PRODUCTION BY TNW Nepal
With an objective to generate awareness on global warming, TNW Nepal is making a documentary film “Ready to die?”

This is a film which tries to sensitize the Nepalese people with the information regarding climate change and its adverse impacts on Nepal. This documentary is based on the field research by B K Dalit, a young environment activist of Nepal. Mr.Manoj Pandit who is a renowned name in the history of Nepalese documentary film has directed this film. During filming the documentary team visited two highly potentially dangerous glacial lakes, Tsho Rolpa Glacial Lake and Imja Glacial Lake, and another lake called Dig Tsho (which has already burst).

While making this documentary film, we are grateful to the following personalities who have extended their expression and suggestions.
Rt.Hon,Ganesh Shah
Minister of Environment,Science and Technology
Bella Bird
Head of DFID
Kikkan haugen
Counsellor-Deputy Head of Mission
Royal Norwegian Embassy
Jean-Marc Clavel
Counsellor(Development)
Country Director,SDC
Dr.Madhav Karki
Deputy Director,ICIMOD
Dr.Keshav P.Sharma
Deputy Director General,DHM
Jagadishwor Karmacharya
Senior Divisional Meteorologist,DHM
Basanta Shrestha
Division Head,MENRIS/ICIMOD
Samjwal Ratna Bajracharya
Geomorphologoist,ICIMOD
Apa Sherpa
Mountaineer
Tashi Tensing Sherpa
Mountaineer
Constatin Lacatusu
Mountaineer
Urs Hagnauer
Program Mannager,VSBK
Dr.Siddhartha Bajracharya
Nepal Trust for Nature Conservation
Bhola Man Singh Basnet
Principal Scientist,Nepal Agricultural Research Council(NARC)
Ukesh Bhuju
Nepal Nature Dot Com
Rajendra Suwaal
Nepal Nature Dot Com
Dr.Arzoo Deuba
Regional Counsellor,IUCN
Mingma Norbu Sherpa
Environment Officer,IUCN Nepal
Han Haigner
Health Adviser,WHO
Jhamak Karki
Under Secretary,DNPWC
Anil Stapith
Environmentalist
Ang Tsering Sherpa
President, Nepal Mountaineering Association

TRAVEL RESERCH
This section contains an expression by people whom have learnt something import and interesting while travelling.
B K Dalit: While visiting Dolakha for eco-district campaign
On 5th November 2008, I caught a bus from Kathmandu to Charikot, district headquarter of Dolakka

FRIENDS OF TNW(FOT)
Friends of TNW is a worldwide network of people who support the TNW Nepal’s environmental and developmental projects by working as a volunteer in TNW projects or helping TNW to raise fund for TNW projects or by donating for the TNW Nepal’s projects.