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PROGRAMS AND PORJECTS: RECENT PROGRAMS

RECENT PROGRAMS

Seminar, Workshop and Talk Programs:

a) First Roundtable on Nepalese Indigenous Peoples' Issues: To discuss and share with the Aadibasi Janajatis Indigenous Peoples of Nepal currently residing in different parts of USA on the current IP issues in Nepal, this Forum organized the First Roundtable on Nepalese Indigenous Peoples' Issues May 22, 2006 at Harvard University, Baker Center Cambridge, MA USA. A number of IP thinkers and activists from around the USA and Nepal also participated in the program.

b) On July 17, 2006 a talk program on Changing the World, One Village at a Time through Self-Sustaining Community Centers with Libraries was organized. It was an opportunity to sharing experiences with READ [Rural Education and Development] at Harvard University, Barker Center, Kresge Room 114, and 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

Natural Disaster Victim Support Program:

We are deeply touched by recent landslides and floods in western part of Nepal. As the Nepalese half-way around the globe down here in the USA we such the large scale natural disaster.

The NIP Forum has contributed $ 500.00 [five hundred] to the victims of landslide victims in Dansing, Kaski district.

We sincerely urge you all to contribute to this end. Any helps count to the survivors of such dreadful natural calamities.

Educational Support Program:

An attempt was made to educational development in Nepal. This forum supported a brilliant student of Nepal with micro-educational support programin 2006.

This Forum is committed to educational development inn Nepal. So, we are concentrating our efforts to this end.

'Nepal Talk' at Harvard, May 21, 2007:

A talk program on "Challenges and Opportunities of Current Social Changes in Nepal" was organized at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. A host of Nepalese professionals and faculty members from among different universities participated in the program

'Nepal Talk' at Harvard on World Indigenous Peoples' Day August 06, 2007:

To mark the World Indigenous People's Day 2007, NIP Forum organized a special program at Harvard University on August 6, 2007.

In the program, Mrs. Sonja Darai offered a serious talk concerning the issues of Nepalese peoples in New England [Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,] and other parts of United States of America.

Takling to the program, Ratna B. Bagchand, a research fellow at Clark University,Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, said 'Janajati Movement has reached its ultimate height' and stressed the need for abolishing 'untouchability' to create equitable society in the country. He urged Janajatis [indigenous peoples] to go hand in hand with the 'so called 'untouchables' [sic] for socio-economic development in Nepal. He also said the nomenclature for the 'untouchables' as 'Dalit' is not appropriate. The naming dehumanizes the untouchables.

Speaking to the program Maita Lal Gurung, Convenor of Peoples' Freedom Party [Green] told that Nepalese people had lost all hopes from the eight party government and they should therefore again revolt against them. Mrs. Bishnu Maya Pariyar [former research fellow Clark University, Worcester. Massachusetts, USA] had also spoken in the porgram.

'National Network for Indigenous Women' Marks World Indigenous Peoples' Day 2007:

To mark the 'World Indigenous Peoples' Day 2007' National Network for Indigenous Women [NNIW], organized an august program in Kathmandu.

Thy organized a huge colorful rally during which thousands of jubilant indigenous women solemnly marched through the streets of Kathmandu, Nepal. The rally later entered Nepal Academy Hall in Kamaldi and converged into National Conference of Indigenous Women.

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