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RCNN workshop: friday 11th july

RCNN workshop is being held on 11th july 2008 at Summit Hotel,Kupondole from 10:00AM to 1:00PM
for one day. Regrading RCNN activities review during the year and future strategies and plan to be taken for sustainebility. The organization heads of the member organation will be also present during the lunch hour. Mr René van Lieshout from IRC Netherland is also attending the workshop.

From fsc

Health Camp Organized:

One day free eye camp was jointly organized by Friends Service Council, Nepal & Butwal Lions Eye Care Hospital on May 27, 2008 in Keruwani VDC ward no 1 with the financial support from SIMAVI, the Netherlands.

During organizing the health camp in the program area, community people’s demand was for an eye camp. So they were informed about various kinds of eye diseases, their eyes checked up, and referred to other relevant hospitals for further check up.

The health camp was supported, attended & actively participated by the secretaries of 5 VDCs (i. e. Devdaha, Makrahar, Karahiya, Kerwani & Siktahan), Health Post In-charges of each VDCs, and the representatives from PC WaSH Main committees & Sub-committees.

In total 359 people ( i. e 235 male and 124 female) got their eye checked up. The following were the diseases found in them.

Eye soreness: 50 persons.

Lack of Vitamin A: 20 persons.

Trachoma: 47 persons

Nuclear Cataract: 47 persons

Cortical Cataract: 2 persons

Simple eye problem: 10 persons

Vision impair: 150 persons

TOT training on Health Management:

A 7 days long TOT training on Health Management was organized on 22-28 May 2008 in the community building of Friends Service Council, Nepal in Mrigauli – 8, Makrahar. 29 participants including 18 female and 11 male from the five VDCs ( i. e. Devdaha, Makrahar, Karahiya, Kerwani & Siktahan ) took part in the training.

2000 Calendars for 2065 BS:

Under IEC materials production, 2000 new calendars were produced for new year (Nep. 2065 Bikram Samvat). The calendar were produced in joint consortium of Simavi, the Netherlands, Friends Service Council, Nepal, Action Aid Nepal and European Commission, Humanitarian Aid Department, Kathmandu. The logos of the respective organizations were visualized in the calendar together with the informative message about safe drinking water, Sanitation & disaster preparedness information. The calendars were distributed to the community people of our program areas, different local NGOs and youth clubs, district level line agencies, department of central Government, ( ministries, planning commission, water supply department, water induced disaster management department), district level line agencies of Rupandehi District. Simavi Contribution in calendar production was only 5,000 Nrs. to the total of 33, 000 Nrs. budget.

Ramechap ToT Programme carried out with 24 participates for 5 days

FEDWASAN members and trainer from IDS Nepal were present.

13th Nov RCNN meeting

For Annual work plan review and Nov -Dec 2007 Workshop.

CLTS Tookit at NalaGola village in kritipur multipicity ward no 15 on 16th Nov 2007 with 20 participates, Ratan Budhathoki from NEWAH, Palpasa Tuladhar from ENPHO and Kedar Adhikari from IDS Nepal were present.

Chitwan Resource centre : Mr Nabin Tiwari has been assigned for the tasks by NRCS.

RCNN workshop:

RCNN workshop is being held on 30th Nov.2007 at Summit Hotel,Kupondole from 9:30 am -4:30pm for one day. Regrading RCNN activities review during the year and future strategies and plan to be taken for sustainebility. The organization heads of the member organation will be also present during the lunch hour. Mr Joep Verhapen from IRC Netherland is also attending the workshop.