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Paper Industry |
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A Handmade Paper Products
Cooperative |
Bansbari,
Kathmandu, Nepal |
P.O.Box
3245, |
Phone
: 977-1-4370819 |
Fax
: 977-1-4374234 |
Email
: mdb@ntc.net.np |
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Our
Social Activities |
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General
Welfare Prathisthan
( GWP
), a sister
concern of GPI,
carries out different
social activities.
40% of total turnover
of GPI co-operative
goes to GWP. The
funds are utilised
for Girls Education,
AIDS Awareness,
Environmental
activities and
income generating
activities.
There are 3 primary
schools, which
is built or renovated
by GWP. More than
100 girls are
getting scholarship
for attending
schools, as girls
are still discriminated
for education.
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A
School
established
by GPI
in Bansbari |
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A
School
supported
by
GPI |
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AIDS
awareness program
of GWP was started
since 1992 and it
has been very successful
program of GWP.
Currently more than
107 staffs work
full time at GWP
to perform AIDS
awareness in the
highways of Nepal.
GWP is working with
FHI/USAID, Heidelberg
University, Save
the Children, and
other international
NGOs to rapidly
aware people of
Nepal about the
threat of AIDS.
It is working with
sex worker, factory
workers, police
force, truck drivers,
school students,
college students
to perform various
awareness activities.
GWP
is also active in
environmental sector.
It has done plantation
program in the community
and more than 4000
plants are growing
in these areas.
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GWP/GPI
Members
Participating
in Plantation
Program,
1994 |
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After
Five
(5)
Years
of
Plantation |
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GWP
is trying to identify
sustainable raw
material for traditional
paper producers
of Nepal and has
developed a nursery
to see the possibility
of growing Lokta
as a farming crop,
instead of treating
them as a wild plant,
which is the current
practice.
Rural
communities are
also engaged in
various agriculture
based income generating
programs like chicken
farming, goat keeping,
buffalo keeping,
cow raising. Such
program is providing
them self employment
opportunities. |
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