Our year’s news 2017 This year has been one of my hardest as I encountered some things that I had not experienced before, but I have to say also it has been one of the most exciting. The year commenced with a call from the mountains to my project manager Binita, some children had…
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Posts By: Freda Casagrande
What it feels like to be the CEO of small International Charity
Being CEO of Hicap UK has not been easy. It has been 11 years of dedication and hard work. There have been so many issues to deal with over these years, but, giving up has never been an option. Fundraising is not easy, Nepal and its Himalayan poverty is an unknown quantity to many. I…
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Did you know? Read on
During my last visit to Nepal I was surprised to learn about how the Caste system still affects the people in the mountains. I had heard stuff but not personally come across it. Some time ago Hicap with the help of funding from FFK arranged to build hostel for children that trek many miles to…
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Women, Orphans, and Inequality in Nepal
Something I began to question after visiting Nepal about 25 times over the last 10 years, sometimes staying for 2-3 months at a time. Why are there so many orphans, are the parents dead, this is how we in the Western World think of orphans. Yes some do lose their parents, but many are abandoned….
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Shocking Facts about the Women of Nepal
When I myself am in Nepal, I feel uncomfortable about what I hear from others about the treatment of women. Many men are violent towards their wives, it is considered normal. A headmaster once bragged to me about his violence to his wife. He actually said he was astonished how a country could actually have…
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Visiting Nepal for Quake Anniversary – Sponsorship
2015/ 16 Has not been a great time for Hicap UK. I am off again on one of my visits. I hope to visit every school that we support and speak with as many children as possible. The sponsorship programme is going great, as sponsor share their experiences and tell how the programme works….
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Bringing Hicap UK into 2016
New Year’s Message from Hicap UK It is a difficult one this year, for obvious reasons. 2015 started very positive, with funding from Futures For Kids to build a hostel. This all happened without incident, it was our first large project and amazingly everything went to plan. Here I am in Early April inspecting the…
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Double Trouble
Double Trouble Binod our project manager first identified the twins Karan and Arjun when they were 7 years old. In late 2012 during one of his regular visits to the villages in Lamjung. He was informed that they were living in a dreadful situation. He contacted me in the UK and was so very worried…
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There is only so much we can do
There is only so much we can do This story began with a mountain accident. Hicap’s project manager was trekking to Bahundanda on one of his normal inspection trips. This was early 2011 when Binod called me on Skype to tell me about a dreadful accident on the road on the way to one of…
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Bijay Tamang and Extra Ordinary Boy
Bijay Tamang an Extra Ordinary Boy In November 2008 I met the family of Bijay Tamang who lived in the village of Jagot. I was staying in a guest house in Jagot when his parents approached me. They spoke to me about their child with tears in their eyes. I asked to see the child…
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