Mike Cassidy of San Jose Mercury News has written a nice piece on Mahabir Pun’s work - http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_15318738?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com&nclick_check=1 (Mike - we hope it’s okay to publish it here as well)
Cassidy: Mahabir Pun inspires digital revolution in the Himalayas
By Mike Cassidy
Mercury News Columnist
Posted: 06/17/2010 01:11:44 PM PDT
Updated: 06/18/2010 07:28:46 AM PDT
It’s not every day that you get [...]

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Dear Friends and Colleagues:
Happy New Year! Attached is our latest HEF e-Newsletter.  This will provide you an update of all the current accomplishments and status on our project activities.  
HEF Board would like to THANK each person receiving this e-Newsletter for supporting us.  HEF continues to achieve recognized status as a major support base for many project [...]

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Courtesey of Nepalnews.com:

American Ambassador to Nepal Nancy J Powell honoring Mahabir Pun, the recipient of the prestigious Ramon Magasaysay Award, in a programme felicitating 26 social leaders for their special contribution in the field of social development in Nepal, organised by Antenna Foundation in Kathmandu, Wednesday, Jul 02 09.

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Andris Bjornson is a professional photographer who visited Nangi and surrounding areas in Nov-Dec 2008. He took some great shots of the area, and has kindly permitted us to republish here. Check out the mindblowing pictures on our Facebook album (and share yours if you have some good ones from your trips to Nangi!) 
Don’t forget [...]

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Robin Shields is one of the earliest volunteers to visit Nangi (we need to get your profile page up Robin .. and now, this fall, he will walk all the way across Nepal, east to west, all 900-odd kilometers through the mountains and the valleys on foot.

Here is a link where you can find [...]

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Namaskar from Dolakha (east of Kathmandu) and Happy St. Patrick’s Day….what a crazy combination! Despite it being the day of the green leprechauns there’s ‘nar a bit of green in these hills as the last of the arid season pelts us with dry, blowing winds. The land is parched and a far cry from the [...]

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The women started producing paper again this January. So far they have produced 1,454 sheets of 20 grm paper and 91 sheets of 40 gm colored paper.  97 kg of lokta bark has been harvested from Nangi and 194 kg lokta has been harvested from Ramche village in February. We purchased lokta @ Rs.50 [...]

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The Blood Drinking Festival was conducted for five days from 02-06 March 2009; there were 205 people involved. All these people are from around the villages of Nangi, Paudwar, Ramche, Shikha , Narchyang, and Pulachour.  During the festival, 11 yak was killed and sold for meat. Blood was sold @ Rs. [...]

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Name of Project: Cross Breeding Project
Chitra Pun, Nangi Project Officer
 
Project place: Mohare Danda (First rely station of wireless network)
Destination: One day from Nangi
 
This project was started in 2004.The altitude, where the project is running , 3200 metre high.Project place is quite lonely among the dense forest. One guy is working in that project to [...]

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The work of Himanchal Educational Foundation (HEF) continues to support the original mission (to provide financial support to the development and operation of Himanchal Higher Secondary School).  The changing conditions (simply put—continued increased costs in the operation of the school and the declined US dollar) have kept us at work with our fund raising.  A [...]

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