Partner and facilitator – Kaule e.V. – Organisation for socially sustainable Agro Projects

The organisation Kaule e.V. and the project in Kaule, Nepal received good news at the end of February. The drugstore chain “dm” and the German UNESCO commission called on us to participate in the competition “Concepts Initiative Future” till October the 15th, 2010. The aim of the competition was to support those people, who dedicate to the sustainable development of our society and who have good ideas for the future. Furthermore, people, who weren’t engaged yet in the topic of sustainability, should be advised to do so.
Kaule e.V. participated in the competition with its project in Nepal and achieves as trophy money a grant amount of 1000 Euro. This ensures the financing of the current project year. In addition to this, the organisation could introduce itself and bring attention to the project at a “dm” market in Cologne on January 2011.
We are really pleased about this information and thank “dm” and the German UNESCO commission for the prize!

The foundation “Ein Körnchen Reis” was founded over 15 years ago by the married couple Rosemarie and Karl Dieter Sorg in Bad Honnef and since supports the projects in the countries of the developing world.
As per the charter of the foundation the support is a matter of “promotion of self-help initiatives in two-thirds of the world, which implement processes to improve the local living circumstances. A punctual approach is the solidarity with all affected people in their hope for better distributive justice, for liberation of degrading dependencies, for protection of human rights, for ensuring of cultural identity and variety, for non-violent development.”
Kaule e.V. is also supported financially by the foundation and for this we thank them sincerely.

The association action five e.V. in Bonn (Germany) is a registered non-profit organisation, which has existed for more than 30 years and has supported long-term development aid projects financially and by working time.
The projects, which are supported, should contribute locally to the well-being of the people and should bring forward the regional development. A high value is set on that the initiatives are taken by the people directly on the spot, that the projects can work independently and have multiplying effects, so that as many people as possible stand to benefit and carry on the ideas to their environment.
Kaule e.V. has been supported financially by action five e.V. since March 2009. We are sincerely thankful for this important sponsorship.

Already since the year of 2008 Hotel Kathmandu View (previously Hotel Prime) in Thamel, Kathmandu is supporting us. The hotel offers special prices for overnight stay to all of the participants of our project and to all volunteers.
Since the year of 2010 there is a new Managing Director, all rooms have been renovated and the special concessions have been maintained. To all visitors of Nepal we would like to recommend this hotel, in which we always feel very comfortable. We really appreciate the service and cooperation of Hotel Kathmandu View. Therefore we give our thanks to Mr. Bishnu Pandey, Managing Director.

We are very pleased about winning Pharos-Services as a new partner. We are sure they will enrich the scientific evaluation of our work.
The company Pharos-Services is an association of experts in the ranges of development cooperation, international volunteer services, social and market research, evaluation and quality management. Pharos-Services operates evaluations and social and market research projects locally and abroad, and aims to work methodically substantiated and intercultural sensitive.
Intercultural competences and scientific working methods were already demonstrated in numerous projects by the experts. In line with its dedication Pharos-Services counsels organisations, governmental institutions and companies and offers a supply of services tailored to the particular needs of their clients.
Pharos-Services operates evaluations according to scientific methods and approved standards. In seminars on the topics development cooperation and evaluation as in intercultural trainings the employees of Pharos-Services instruct specialists and managers on questions of methods and intercultural understanding.

In line with the soil measurement, which includes the preparation of a soil profile and the measurement of pH, nitrate, phosphate and organic material, Kaule e.V. cooperates with Asst. Prof. Rajan Ghimire of the Tribhuvan University in Rampur.
The measurements will be performed in the following March, and Prof. Ghimire will therefore deploy students of the masters degree program “soil science“.
Kaule e.V. will visit the institute and the laboratory in Rampur in mid-October.