We recently partnered with an organization called the Tipping Bucket. This is a website designed to "crowd fund" for various humanitarian projects. The idea is that if you can get enough people to donate just $1, you can fund any project. There is a time limit and if the project does not raise the goal amount, everyone gets their money back and the project goes unfunded....their tag line is "change the world or your money back". We decided to post a small $600 project just to see how it would work and the project was funded 101% within two and a half days...way before the deadline! WOW! Below is a description of the project you helped fund! Thanks for all the support. We will be posting more projects on this website in the future. To find out when follow us on Twitter - @CHOICEorg or join us on Facebook.
--7:25 AM. Chandrapata, Nepal. Two villagers caring a sack and a bamboo basket begin to pick up trash in their village. By that evening the whole village was rallied together to start a community recycling program. What happened to this village was simply the result of two people increasing their vision of what is possible when they all work together, but now they need our help to realize their goal.
Two men, tired of looking at all the trash that polluted their village of Chandrapata, decided to try to clean it up. They began at dawn.
As they moved through the community surprised villagers began to ask them what they were doing and then began to join them. The two men were peppered with questions about what they needed the trash for, if there was a special program launched for cleaning the village and how they could help. The community shared their concerns for how the trash was affecting their community and wanted to learn how to dispose of the garbage properly.
Soon there was a group of 20 villagers picking up trash. They began to discuss who was responsible for this trash and how agriculture and animal husbandry had been affected by plastic. Gagendra KC told how he raises goats and takes them to the jungle to graze. He said, “My goats could not gain proper weight. Later I realized the reason behind this. The goats ate noodle plastic that contained salt, those are scattered everywhere in the street, jungle and field.” Another villager said, “If we did not find a solution to manage this garbage in time, it will have adverse effect in every sector of our life.”
At the end of the day the group decided that there was not a single person to be blamed for this problem but everyone. A discussion for sustainable management of garbage occurred and that very day they created a plan. The local sports club would be in charge of the project and would also benefit from the revenue the recycling program would create.
The community of Chandrapata is willing to put in what they can but need help to realize there dream of a clean community. Below is an outline of their plan and needed resources. Please help Chandrapata become one of the first “green” communities in Nepal.
- Request every household segregate bio-degradable and non degradable trash into two different bins in their home.
- Recyclable trash will be collected every week by the sports club and sent to a recycle centre and biodegradable trash will be used to make compost manure at the household level. Non recyclable non degradable garbage will be buried in disposal centre.
- The sports club will collect revenue from each household for their work and that fund will be used for promoting sport activities of the youths from the club.
- The sports club will teach school kids to dispose garbage in proper place.
- Choice Humanitarian will help develop a disposal centre.
- The sports club will mobilize youth for social work which will keep them from geting into mischief.
Budget for the project: The village will need 60 trash bins, 1 garbage disposal center, and training funds. They are able to contribute $575 and asked for $600 to make up the difference.
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