Laatste update: 29 augustus 2010



General information

Legal form: Foundation (NGO)
Corporate name: Stichting Sāthsāthai
Statutory seat: Doesburg, The Netherlands
Address: Windmolenstraat 24, 6981 AZ Doesburg
Telephone number: +31.313.482013
Email: info@sathsathai.com
First registration in the formal/commercial register: 21-07-2004, Chamber of Commerce and Industries for Central Gelderland, account number 09144274; incorporation deed/establishment 14-07-2004

Board of the foundation (all with the Dutch nationality):

Chairman/treasurer: Tanja Kruk-Schwartz, Doesburg
Vice-chairman: Annette Sins, Voorburg
Secretary: Jos van Herpen, Doesburg
Member: Joanne de Hen, Deventer

Mission:

Main (formal) purpose/goal: Boosting the effective improvement of the conditions/situation of income, living and working of individual persons, families and groups in the region Timal, district Kavre Palanchowk, Nepal.

Main target group:

The approx. 5.000 families of the hill region Timal, that consists of seven villages and is inhabited by approx. 40.000 people. Special target group: women of Timal. The seven villages are: Thulo Parsel, Mechchhe, Kuruwas Chapakhori, Bolde Pediche, Pokhari Narayanthan, Saramthali and Sarshukharka.

Goal:

To provide all families with some basic provisions that will enable them to look after themselves in a better way for a better future.

Activities

  • Electricity
    • for all families by expanding the national grid to all 7 villages (2006-2010).
    Expected effects: stimulus for new economic activities and improvement of study facilities for students.

  • Toilets
    • for all families (2005-2012).
    Expected effects: improvement of hygiene and prevention of common diseases like diarrhoea (cause number one of the high infant mortality rate)

  • Improved cooking stoves
    • for all families (2005-2012)
    Expected effects: prevention of eye diseases and respiratory problems, prevention of burning wounds (especially with children) and related disabilities at later age, 30% reduction of the use of fire wood and reduction of the daily workload of women).

  • Adult literacy classes
    • 116 classes for approx. 2.900 illiterate women (2006-2011).
    Expected effects: personal development of women, empowerment of women, improvement of their influence and social status.

  • Microfinance groups
    • (63) for women in every ward and the establishment of a professional regional Saving and Credit Co-operative (SACCO) (2006-2011).
    Expected effects: stimulus for new economic activities, improvement of family income, improvement of the social status of women.

  • Improvement of family incomes by
    • implementing an extensive mix of activities to stimulate women to take initiatives for new income generating activities and to support them to realize their initiatives.

    A description of our projects (including costs per project and planning) you can find in our Long Range Programme 2006-2011.


    Counterparts

    1) Timal Community Rural Electrification Co-operative Association Ltd (TCRECA) is a user's co-operative which was established to prepare and implement a project for electrification of the region of Timal. After the completion of the project TCRECA will act as a private company that buys electricity from the national electricity company of Nepal (NEA), sells electricity to the users and is responsible for the distribution of electricity to all households.

    2) Sāthsāthai Bikash Nepal (SaBiNe)
    Until December 2008 all projects were implemented by the Timal Community Rural Electrification Co-operative Association Ltd (TCRECA). In December 2008 it was concluded that the complexity of the electrification project requires all attention of the board members of TCRECA. In close co-operation between the boards of TCRECA and NGO Sāthsāthai and the political leaders of the region of Timal it was decided to establish a new NGO “Sāthsāthai Bikash Nepal” (“working together for the development of Nepal”). This NGO was registered by the Central District Office on January 1, 2009. All board members are very experienced with our former projects and have proven to be able to implement a project successfully. The main responsibility of SaBiNe will be the implementation of our toilet- and improved cooking stove projects.

    3) Responsible for the implementation of women projects (literacy classes for adult women, microfinance groups and new income generating activities) is our local programme manager for women projects, Sangram Jit lama, who is an expert on Microfinance. He will consult and will be advised by a Women Advisory Committee. This committee represents all 3.000-5.000 women of all 7 villages of the region. Their involvement guarantees that the projects reflect the wishes and the possibilities of these women. The WAC was established in January 2010.

    Results per December 2009

  • 1150 toilets finished

  • 1250 improved cooking stoves finished

  • 3 villages connected to the national grid

  • 116 literacy classes for adult women organised
        (in which approx. 3.000 women are involved)

  • 475 women received reading glasses

  • Rookvrije kooktoestellen (ICS)

  • preparations for 30 small libraries (starting in April 2010) finished

  • 63 local microfinance groups for women organised, with approx. 3.000 member

  • some small projects, like a garbage project and a co-operative fruit orchard in Thulo Parsel

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