Ini-1: Indira Ranamagar, en af Asiens mest anerkendte socialentreprenører. Arbejder primært i Kathmandu. Aktiviteten er fokuseret omkring maduddeling til nødstedte i KTM
Ini-2: SEIT, Social Eco-Innovative Trust (www.seitnepal.org.np), Amit Shah and Guru Prashant.
Food, PPE’s and medical aid in Dhanusha, also counseling and performing PCR-tests. Target group consistes of 1000 families in Dhanusha: Note: Supported in part, extra donations sought.
Ini-4: NIC, National Innovation Center (www.nicnepal.org), Mahabir Pun, Sunil Banya. Part of activity outsourced to the NIC spin-off company SparkTech Engineering, doing voluntary work for NIC. Several remote locations will be reached, details still pending. First action reached out to Tatey Healthpost, Budhiganga Municiplity, Bajura, and brought Oxygen Concentrators, PPE, and other equipment. Photos received are found <here>.
Ini-5: NIC, National Innovation Center (www.nicnepal.org), Mahabir Pun. Aim: Increase the production of PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) at NIC. Decision pending (as funding from US-donors may be sufficient).
Ini-6: Gurbaba FM radio station, Ekraj Chaudhari. Awareness Campaign for Corona Epidemic. Involving 8 radio stations, reaching out to 185 villages in Bardya, a population of 150.000. Special feature: Addresses the Tharu ethnic group in their own language. An anonymous Danish foundation is sponsoring the project in part and thus a further donor is sought.
Ini-7: Dang cooperative. Neighbouring district to that of Ini-6 with mainly Tharu population. Activity here is focused on equipment for 3 isolation centres, support for C-19 hit families, food for the poor.
Ini-8: Pending. Extensive investigations on the need of equipment at the lower end health units, ranging from 1 (major hospitals) to 5 (health posts at remote places with minimal support and no educated staff). Special advice received from many sides, including front end Covid 19 personnel in Denmark and in Nepal. Export from Denmark may result. Expected expense high (500.000DKK). Special donor sought.
Ini-9: Dedicated tracking guide organized group of volunteers in Bhimsen Thapa Rural Municipality and collaborates with the municipality to provide food for vulnerable families, equipment at Tandrang Health post and to support mobile medical teams.
Ini-10: Indirekte støtte til ActionAid/Nepal via ActionAid/Denmark, alias MS, Mellemfolkeligt samvirke. Teknisk udstyr (Oxygen især) til flere centre. Kraftigt behov for yderligere donationer, men sker bedst ved direkte støtte uden om FAN til MS. Kontakt MS/Kirsten Hjørnholm kis@ms.dk, mobil 21783078 (referér til Flemming Topsøe og undgå evt. ekstra administrationsgebyr).
Ini-11: “Strengthening Covid-19 Care in Rural Nepal”, et stærkt lægefagligt project udgående fra det kendte Dhulikhel Hospital i KTM, der gennem projektet rækker ud til 18 fjerne centre i ni forskellige distrikter.
Ini-12: Gennem Nepal Development Society der bl.a. står for renovation rækker dette initiativ ud til renovationsarbejderne i fem store byer i Nepal. Deres arbejde er særlig vigtigt under epidemien og de er særligt udsatte. En kontakt i UNDP/Nepal har formidlet dette projekt.
Ini-13: Gennem en kvindelig handicaporganisation (NIDWAN) ydes hjælp vedrørende medicin, Covid-19 hjælp, sanitet og madvarer til to grupper af handikappede kvinder og unge piger, dels i Provins 2 (Terai), dels nær Kathmandu. I alt ca. 80 kvinder med familier omfattes af hjælpen. Neil Webster er kontaktperson.
Ini-14: Mangesidigt projekt fra opmærksomhedsskabende til aflevering af Covid-19 patienter ved et hospital i tæt samarbejde med de kommunale myndigheder i Nilakantha kommune i Dhading. Inkluderer telemedicin mv. Rækker ud til 250.000 mennesker (heraf 100.000 mere direkte) over 14 afdelinger (”wards”). Lone Petersen er kontaktperson.
Ini-17: A project of HPF/Nepal (Human Practice Foundation). Covid-19 Detection and Treatment at Taplejung District Hospital and at 8 rural municipalities, implementation of public intervention programs to control pandemics, locally. Special interest as the project focuses on technical needs and abilities at the rural centres with some but limited access to medical expertice.
Ini-19: BETTER CHITWAN: “SATHI” (friends): Help to vulnerable children and families with relief and support in seven municipalities of Chitwan. Focus on exposed children, aged 0-9, as no special care for them is available. Treating fear and distress. Medical support, psycho-social rehabilitation.
Ini-22: Ujyaalo Lalteen Foundation (Helping Hands). Emergency food support to avoid starvation and further indebtedness (due to fall out of wages), Devdaha and Sunwall Municipalities. Samarbejder med Skoleliv I Nepal.Ini-24: Et lokalt initiativ i Ramsgram Kommune, Nawalparasi, til støtte for den udsatte lav-kaste befolkning der er værst ramt af Covid-19. Som med mange andre initiativer truer hungersnød og selvom det måske ikke er primær katastrofehjælp, går en del af støtten til madvarer, hvor vi lægger hovedvægt på det helt basale, ris. Støtten går også til sundheds-og sanitetspakker (sæbe, masker mv).