Junbesi Society

Junbesi Society Is About Education in Nepal

budda — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:00:25 +0000

The Junbesi Education Society was established in June 2007 as a way of building relationships that foster and support education in Nepal. We do this by providing local funding to local families for the education of their children and the building of relationships.

Letter from Jangmu

budda — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:00:16 +0000

Jangmu Celebrates Her Birthday

budda — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:00:01 +0000

Letter from Jangmu

budda — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:00:08 +0000

Michael Meets Dorjee and His Family

budda — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:00:07 +0000

Michael meets Dorjee and his family at the Junbesi Restaurant in Kathmandu

Junbesi Village Nepal

budda — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:00:08 +0000

Michael Leaves for Nepal

budda — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:00:05 +0000

Nina and Alan with Michael before he leaves for Nepal

HiHimalayas Film Festival

budda — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:04:21 +0000

Wanda Vivequin of HiHimalayas introducing the South Asian Film Festival at Metro Cinema in Edmonton. Wanda is screening a number of Nepali and Indian Films as a fund-raising project to support Himalayan Health and Hospitals Project – 3HP and not for profit project in remote western Nepal.

EVEREST A Climb for Peace Film Festival

budda — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:58:17 +0000

Alan, Wanda & Nina
EVEREST A Climb for Peace Film
April 2008

Nepal & South Asian Film Festival in Edmonton

budda — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:53:52 +0000

April 23 2008 7:30pm (two documentaries)
Venue: Metro Cinema Edmonton Zeidler Hall – Citadel Theatre Complex
Cost $10 at the door
Film #1 Search for Freedom
A story about four Afghani Women
Director : Munizae Jahangir
Afganistan/Pakistan
50 minutes
The film is about four Afghani women, one a progressive liberal princess before the Mujahiddin era; the other the first female singer of Afghanistan; the third a peasant; and the fourth an young urban aspiring doctor. It tells the stories of the strength, the courage and the oppression of the Afghani women and their love for their country.

Film #2 Turf Wars
Directors Sanjay Barnela and Vasant Saberwal
India
41 min

In 1999, the Great Himalaya National Park in India’s Kullu Valley in the state of Himachal Pradesh, was brought under the regulations of the India Wildlife Protection Act. As a result, local rights to graze animals and extract medicinal herbs within the borders of the national park were severed. Simultaneously, a part of the park was deleted from the originally demarcated boundaries to enable the construction of a hydroelectric power plant. Turf Wars explores the contradictions that seem to characterize the government’s policies towards conservation, wherein local livelihoods are expendable in the interests of biodiversity, but industry is not.

All proceeds and donations from this screening will go to
Himalayan Health & Hospitals Project
a not for profit community group fundraising for
health projects in remote Western Nepal.
For more information contact: Wanda Vivequin wanda at hihimalayas.com