New Contact Centre;
On the small ground, left from the small river will be the Contact Centre. That is a school for the poor children from the neighbourhood who can get their first education for free. The children also get tea and dhal bath everyday while attention class. The building of this Contact Centre is possible thanks to the big devotion of Foundation Maha Mata from Rotterdam, Holland.

Second stage;
The second phase is to build near to the head-building, two small houses for the big children. One for the boys and one for the girls. In every house will sleep a care taker. In each house are four sleeping rooms, with two bunk beds, which make 16 children in one house. On top of each house there will be a solar heater with 300 lt. of water. The douches are with a water sparing shower. So there will be enough hot water on the roof and all the children can get a good hot shower. Our houses will be extremely basic, but with the things we think is needy.

There will also be a small technical building, where we put our installations, like water-pumps, water filters, current supplies and a fire pump etc. There will be a technical boy or girl from our job trainings project Jyoti in Pokhara, who will keep everything running.

Job training for young girls and women.
We planned a job training centre behind the Contact Centre. Especially for girls, disabled people but also for young women to learn a job. We have also planned a farm with cows, oxen, goats and chickens. These animals help us with the biogas production. There will also be a field with vegetables with lots of vitamins. In Nepal we call it “Kitchengardening”. And off course without chemical insecticide and pesticide. We also plan to cultivate flowers and beehives and lots of other things. The agricultural products like milk, eggs, potatoes, cauliflower etc. are for using at Hamro Niwas, but also for sale. So we create a money generation program. We can earn a part of the yearly exploitation costs back and we are not that much dependent from donations anymore.

A small water power station, hydropower!
The small river, which is in the middle of our field, gives us almost the whole year a certain amount of water. The river is hundred meters long and the difference between the highest and lowest part is more than five meter. With the water we can generate power with the hydro power generator. It looks like a big bicycle dynamo. Free power, from the water. Great, isn't it? And we also have energy saving lamps here in Nepal, so we don't need much extra energy.


The sunkitchen
There will be two big sun mirrors outside our kitchen, from 4 x 4 meter with a parabolic shape. This parabolic exists of a lot of small mirrors from 10 x 15 cm. All this mirrors together is one big reflector. All the sun they catch is one big sun beam on the kitchen wall and the cooking oven. The temperature in the focus is between the 600 and 1000 degrees Celsius. I think, they can make a big pan of rice with this. There are a few of this types built in Nepal yet. We buy a better version of this. These two sun cookers will be bought form the donations of our friend Malou van de Geest. She did a great action in her village Zoetermeer, the Netherlands.

Nice idea, but what if there is no sun?

No problem, look here….!!

Biogas
Biogas installations have been based on methane gas that is released at the digestion of manure. In Nepal more than 30,000 farmers at their farm have biogas installations, in which the dung of cattle and the family members is mixed with water. With the methane gas that is released from that, the food is cooked. Shankar Charandy lives with his wife Baboe, their children, family members and staff on the farm, where especially rice is grown. Thanks to the biogas installations Ayah doesn't have to gather wood anymore to cook. That makes a difference of three hours per day and it helps to reduce the deforestation in Nepal. Biogas installations require fairly much manure. Collecting of it is time-consuming and sordid. The richer part of the population doesn't like to do this.


So beside our farm there will be a biogas installation. All the cow shit and the toilets end there. All this is mixed into to a fine pulp of shit. But also green garden detritus are possible in this well. The principle is fermentatation, and that makes gas. Methane gas, what otherwise disappear unused in the environment.

The sewer is drained un-purified on the Saint Rivers in Nepal. The rivers become black and stinky. Most of the villagers and highlanders have no toilet and do their needs in the forest or jungle, or when there is no forest anymore, they do their needs only 10 meters from their house, outside along the course path. You can smell this on a mile distance. And think of all the bacteria and sicknesses which result here. At our new child house we do that different. Our need goes directly from the French type of toilet, which is washed down with only two litres water, straight to the Biogas installation. There it is mixed with the cow shit from the farm and that produces ordinary pure gas, what we use on a rainy day to cook. Our kitchen is a little smelly as break wind, but that gets used! So we do cheap cooking with solar energy with biogas. The environment is the large winner, but it is also better for our wallet.

But what goes in must go out
Yes, this is correct. The Biogas well is filled, shit and dung changes to kind of “spinach soup” and loose its methane gas by too much pressure to the kitchen. On the other side of the well is a small hole, the spinach soup goes out here. From that moment we call it “Slurry”. It no longer smells like shit. With that it has been occurred that this gas charge the environment. This slurry now is an excellent fertiliser for the compost and possible bacteria have been killed in the fermentation process. This provides extra good and vitamin rich products on the field.


Fishfarming.
But we have more nice things to tell you. Behind our field is a river. We would like to make a small cage in this river and put some fishes in. Those fishes love the “spinach soup”. And then….after a while the children can eat the delicious fishes from there own river. What else do they want?

More water saving projects
The water from the shower is going to a small septic tank. The dirt will sink and the rest of the grey water is going through a Cane filter. This clean and filtered water is going back to the river. The dirt from the tank will be digested to fertiliser. So we even use the dirt.

The Cane filter, also called Helophytefilter

To be sparing with water is very important for the future generations. So the reuse of water is a priority for us. Certainly in Nepal, where a large part of the poor population has no pure drinking water at all. In a lot of mountain villages they have to walk more than two hours to a water source and that water has been frequently polluted. Stichting Veldwerk tries to do much as possible to keep the environment clean. So we also use the cane filter in our new children home Hamro Niwas, what is a new concept for Nepal!


Rain Harvesting.
We also save the raining water and use it when it is a drier period. We will build a big underground concrete tank, which we can close with a concrete top. We hope to save 100.000 litre of water in the rainy season. We can make a sport field on top of the tank. So we combine business with pleasure!


So, , this is it for now, our biological small village Hamro Gaun in Nepal. What do you think, nice, isn't it? Will be continued….
With Regards, Rene Veldt,
Stichting Veldwerk, actions speak louder than words.

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