In August 2023, we launched an appeal for donations for the Daphu project. Thanks to your generous donations, our crew was able to set off on a very difficult and costly project last Sunday. Daphu Village is located in the Himalayas and is very difficult to reach due to the earthquake on November 22, 2023. […]
Our sanitation team has completed a super job in an almost unbelievable speed. The speed can also be explained by the fact that the big Dashain Festival in Nepal was coming up. The Dashain Festival is the big harvest festival in Nepal; a festival where everyone goes home to visit their families and exchange gifts.Our […]
We are pleased to inform you that Illam Project I, Shree Singadevi Secondary School Phuyatappa with 200 students has been successfully completed. Our team has completed the plumbing installations for 4 new toilets, 2 sinks, and 2 showers there. The laying of the sewer lines to the newly constructed settling basins was done under partly […]
We are happy to inform you that this week we have started a new project in Nepal. We have been committed to this project for some time and had planned it for after the return of Karna and Nabin and before the upcoming large construction and sanitation project in Daphu. For your information: this summer […]
For the ninth time, the l’Unique Foundation is presenting the Lifetime Achievement Award – the award for people and bands who rock Basel beyond the city and canton borders. In 2023, the award ceremony is all about women: the award goes to Steffi Klär, manager, event organizer, communicator in so many areas of the Basel […]
In Daphu, Nepal – a small village in the Himalayas without road access (horses being their only mode of transportation) and only electricity for two hours a day – the 115 students of the Kanjirowa Basic School are facing challenging conditions due the the lack of sufficient toilet facilities. They are compelled to relieve themselves […]
Yesterday, Khemraj Puri, our team leader and The Twin Otters Children’s Home informed us that all the extension work has been completed. Thanks to your support, over 20 children have a safe place and no longer have to live on the streets of Kathmandu. We would like to thank you once again for your trust […]
This week our local plumbing crew on site, consisting of three men also started working at The Twin Otters children’s home in Kathmandu – Nepal. They are renovating and expanding the wet rooms for the children and are progressing very quickly. Planned are 5 toilet and 3 shower facilities, as well as 2 washing troughs. […]
Thanks to your donations and support we were able to start with the necessary expansion of the Twin Otters Children’s Home. The background for this expansion is a new requirement by the state of Nepal which states that children’s homes must have space for at least 20 children. Without the extension, the 13 children living […]
A lot has happened in the last months! After our local team has built sanitary facilities for two schools in mountain villages outside Kathmandu in 2022, our Swiss Care Team is on site again – in their luggage two containers filled with sanitary material provided by our partner Geberit Group. Under the leadership of our […]