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Hope for Education
Hope for Education ( an effort to raise money for school in Namje) here in Kathmandu this past Saturday was a grand success!
The turnout was well over expected- more than 170 people- and we managed to raise over Rs. 1,28,000 (approx USD $ 2031) after costs. Food and wine was good and the live performances by Tulsi Parajuli, Kunti Moktan, Sita Gurung, Kutumba, Barta Gandharva and Mica Sundari were superb. This is in addition to Rajiv Goyal’s previous fundraising effort in New York, which had already raise about $30,000
The event and Namje got some press in a few of the dailies (including http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=132889) and interviews are still underway.
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Elevation for school in Namje
This is our new design for a laboratory and library for an existing school in Namje (near dhankuta). The structures are ofcourse bamboo and the walls are 45cm thick rammed earth.
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International Conference on Modern Bamboo Structures
International Network for Bamboo and Rattan, University of Southern California, USA, Oita University Japan and Hunan University, China jointly organized an international workshop on modern bamboo structures from October 28 to 30 In Changsa Hunan. The workshop covered the various research and development activities on bamboo based structures and related topics. The participants also observed the work dones by Hunan University on bamboo housing and bamboo bridge. About 60 participants from China and abroad attended the event. Nripal Adhikary from Abari also presentated a paper on a locally developed bamboo treatment method.Click here for the full paper
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Website of the week
Good news! Our abari website was nominated as “the featured website of the week” in Hits FM 92.4’s program Surfing. It is a tech program run by Alok Thapa, that reviews different sites which deal with different technological, cultural and social issues. Its our honor to be featured in such an esteemed program.
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Thanks
We would like to thank our webmaster Kurt Gardella from Germany for doing wonderful work with our website. The new gallery set up is making our website even more informative. Thanks to this great website, we have been very visible on the web.
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Bamboo in Janakpur
Harsar, a tiny village near Janakpur, is where our construction is taking place. It is a small impoverished Maithili village, which has a mix of Hindu and Muslim community who are living in a relative harmony. However, the vices of untouchability, child marriage, superstition and inequality still haunts this village. Most of the people make their living through farming, but the young people are migrating to India and Gulf countries for better paying jobs. The area is rich in natural resources mainly in bamboo, mango, eucalyptus trees etc. CareNepal is trying to promote bamboo as a modern construction material, and they have chosen Abari do so. We are using the old materials but with modern connection and bending techniques.
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Brickmaker in Nepal
Please click on the above picture to see an adobe brickmaker in action. These people have been making bricks for generation. They can make upto 500 bricks a day. Its ironic they make so many sun dried bricks in a day yet its hard to buy the bricks , its because all these bricks are later burnt in a kiln. Since burnt bricks are more expensive then the sun dried bricks (almost 1000% more), brickmakers are reluctant to see them. Sun dried bricks alone, are unfortunately not used in construction anymore. Burnt bricks consume lots of energy to make and obviously during the process they produce lots of smoke. Furthermore, heat retaining capacity of clay die out when they are burnt. So the sun dried bricks are better thermally and ecologically then the burnt bricks.
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National Mission For Bamboo Application
National Mission for Bamboo Application (NMBA), an autonomous organization under the umbrella of Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India has done a lot of progress in developing bamboo housing technology. They have developed bamboo house with engineered bamboo panels. The houses are tested for various standards. These houses are said to be resistance to high wind pressure and very cold climate.
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Bamboo Alliance Nepal
Inspired by the Tea growers alliance, different bamboo furniture makers, growers, designers, researchers and bamboo enthusiasts have decided to form a Bamboo Alliance of Nepal.
The first meeting was held in Greenchwich Hotel Nepal, in which it was decided that there will be Six Core Groups representing different sectors and each group will be represented by one or two elected individual from the alliance. The responsibilities of the representatives are to gather all the people working in their line of product/ group of work and select a representative to sign the MoU.
It was also decided that Abari will represent the Research and Development sector.
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News
Abari has had a very busy month, so we have not been able to update the website. Shishir Gairhe is sucessfully treating bamboo for the upcoming construction in Janakpur and Nripal Adhikary has been travelling in the USA promoting abari’s work.
They are meeting tomorrow in Bangkok for a training in bamboo.
Please listen to his radio interview on Santa Fe Radio Cafe and a newspaper article on Albuquerque Journal.
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