Orphanage Volunteering: An Interview with Martin Punaks, Country Director, Next Generation Nepal

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 17Dec

Next Generation Nepal has recently released its long-awaited report, The Paradox of Orphanage Volunteering: Combating child trafficking through ethical voluntourism. The report was launched on 11th December 2014 at a Conference on Orphanage Volunteering run by UNICEF Nepal and Next Generation Nepal.
The report can be downloaded here: http://www.nextgenerationnepal.org/Press_Releases

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***** MA DECISION- MA LIFE,MA WILL !! *****

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Submitted by Centrist Neo 16Dec
***** MA DECISION- MA LIFE,MA WILL !! *****
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Striking a balance between freedom of religion and accommodation towards local culture and traditions

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 16Dec
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Let uphold the freedom of religion allowing Nepali citizens to join new churches for example but let’s make sure that these new groups, while welcome, stand by a “common sense” based approach to accommodate, respect and interact with local traditions and traditional faiths.

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“Is Amsterdam in USA, isn’t it?” Well yes but not only!

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 14Dec
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I am pretty sure that a good number of educated youth know where London and Paris are but it is undeniable the existence of generally poor track records among Nepali youth when we talk about geography. Let’s introduce a new subject in the national curriculum: World Education.

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Disability Sports in India

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Submitted by Michael Rosenkrantz 13Dec
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Bringing disability sports throughout India
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Nepal Picture Library Year-End Print Sale [Crowdfunding Announcement]

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Submitted by Veneeta Singha 12Dec
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Venture Philantropism and Philantropy
Please support Nepal Picture Library by purchasing a print or something from the new line of merchandise!! To view the print gallery, please visit: http://support.nepalpicturelibrary.org
 
Help spread the word by sharing this link with friends and family. Also, if you would like to support through other ways, NPL is open to ideas! Drop a line at mail@nepalpicturelibrary.org Thank you for your continued support!
 

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Guilty of Torture

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Submitted by Michael Rosenkrantz 11Dec

The recently released US Senate Intelligence Report on Torture should surprise no one.  There is so much hate, discrimination, prejudice and murdering of so called "others", just because they don't believe what we believe.  The US should take no pride in how we've spread torture techniques throughout the world.  In a CNN piece on World reaction to the Report we find

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Indo centric South Asia

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Submitted by Mahesh Bhatta 11Dec
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Since the independence of Indian sub continent from colonial powers the region has always been indo centric. Even though all other seven member states have national sovereignty and equal independent presence in South Asia, India still seems to be in the spot light.
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“Everybody Can Serve”- Celebrating the Power of Inclusive Volunteering

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Submitted by kusum lama 11Dec
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ENGAGE together with the support of VSO/ICS celebrating a power of inclusive volunteering to promote awareness about people with disabilities can be active agents of change through volunteerism. Also bringing all the organizations and institutions working in disability and other fields together in order to create more inclusive society by providing a platform to have new partnership.

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Kidney patients infected with hepatitis. Let’s get the Government pay the bill

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Submitted by Simone Galimberti 11Dec
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In world where fairness and justice prevail, common sense would prevail too and accidents like the one recently happened at the Human Organ Transplant Center should be addressed with max urgency. It does not happen only in Nepal, it can happen also in more developed countries but the rule of law would prevail and impose justice and fairness. Let’s demand it.

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