'Samir'-The Story of Hope

My visit to Dalla Homestay this time from 22-24 September, 2012 brought different scenarios and emotions thereafter. One of the very illustrative is my meeting with SAMIR !

Samir, I met him quite accidentally on that day. It was indeed a general walk through the Khata corridor and some general observations of the area. 

He was sitting beside the fire when I met him in the foggy morning. As any other day I would have talked to any kid, I started my talk with him asking doesn't he have school ?

'It's holiday today,' he said genuinely.

'Where do you study?' I continued.

'There's a blind school in Babai, I study there,' was his prompt reply.

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Dalla Homestay, through my eyes

Its been three times in the past 10 months I have visited Dalla and every time I come to this place there's always a new flavor in the same story of CONSERVATION. Conservation the word in itself is very vast and its meaning more grounded. But seeing Dalla, the village; Shiva, The Community forest; and Mangal Tharu, the leader and the way people are dedicated to conservation is the real example of what naturalists define conservation as "the use, management, and protection of resources so that they are not degraded, depleted, or wasted, and is available on a sustainable basis for use by present and future generations".

Way to the Homestay...!!

Dalla homestay, Suryapatuwa VDC of Bardiya is the village of the user groups from the Shiva community forest which is a part of the Khata biological corridor. A biological corridor represents the path connecting two protected areas from where wild animals move. Thereby Khata corridor connects Bardiya National Park in Nepal to Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary in India. It is one of the functional biological corridors of Nepal as Rhinos, Elephants and other wild animals are known to move between the two trans-boundary protected areas through the Khata corridor.

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Memories Down the Lane..[The Sunscreen Song]

09 May 2011

Naya Baato, Sanepa, Kathmandu

It was one of the regular afternoons when we were having our lunch, and discussing on several topics. Lunch time with different discussions used to be the best part of the day at Resources Himalaya Foundation (RHF) with Pralad Sir (Dr. Pralad B. Yonzon). 

As any other day, that day talks about the "Sunscreen speech" popped on. One of our colleagues at the Environmental Graduates in Himalaya (EGH), Mr. Anuj Pradhan started the talk and there we went having further discussions. 

The very next morning Pralad Sir E-mailed us the following note. I liked it then, I like it now...

So just felt like sharing and Yeah, "Don't you forget to WEAR SUNSCREEN" :-)

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