Biruwa Ventures Cycles for a Cause
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HELP BIRUWA RAISE FUNDS FOR A BIRTHING CENTER IN BAITADI, NEPAL!
Every year, 25,000 infants die in Nepal due to lack of proper birthing facilities. Baitadi, a mountainous district in far-western Nepal, has one of the highest infant mortality rate in the country.
As part of Save the Children's EVERYONE CAMPAIGN, a team from Biruwa Ventures will cycle in Kathmandu Kora 2013 to raise Rs. 50,000 (approx. $600). This fund will be used to build a birthing facility in Sharmili VDC, Baitadi. This will be a Eco-Designed building, providing the best facilities to the women and children in this remote VDC. The principle is simple - no more minimum standards for our women and children. They deserve the best standards. They deserve a birthing facility that is beautiful, secure, earthquake proof, welcoming, warm and everything that we expect facilities to be like in the city. And this is what we aim to do.
The GOAL is - ONE MILLION for BAITADI.
If you want to learn more about the event and register to participate in the cycling challenge click here
In 2012, we raised a total of Rs 50,000 through Biruwa's network and handed over the funds to Karma Foundation, the organization responsible for disbursing the funds in Rukum. The event as a whole raised around Rs. 900,000. The funds were used to provide birthing equipments at a center in Rukum.
ABOUT KORA
Every year, on the third Saturday in July, riders from Nepal and different nationalities gather in Kathmandu (last year we were close to 300 riders) to ride a personal challenge ride of 50 kilometers around Kathmandu Valley. This is now popular as the KATHMANDU KORA, this year on its third edition.
Started in 2011, a modest 35 riders challenged themselves and got pledges of around half a million Nepali Rupees for a school and an orphanage in Kathmandu. In its second edition, almost 300 riders turned up and raised close to a million rupees for upgrading birthing facilities in RUKUM, a rural mountainous district in Nepal.
A Kora is a circumambulation devotees make around religious sites, usually clockwise. This is a Kora of Kathmandu, of the three main religious sites of Swayambhunath, Boudha and Pashupatinath.
Read about our experience at last year's KORA here.
Read about our trip to Simrutu VDC, Rukum here.
Every year, 25,000 infants die in Nepal due to lack of proper birthing facilities. Baitadi, a mountainous district in far-western Nepal, has one of the highest infant mortality rate in the country.
As part of Save the Children's EVERYONE CAMPAIGN, a team from Biruwa Ventures will cycle in Kathmandu Kora 2013 to raise Rs. 50,000 (approx. $600). This fund will be used to build a birthing facility in Sharmili VDC, Baitadi. This will be a Eco-Designed building, providing the best facilities to the women and children in this remote VDC. The principle is simple - no more minimum standards for our women and children. They deserve the best standards. They deserve a birthing facility that is beautiful, secure, earthquake proof, welcoming, warm and everything that we expect facilities to be like in the city. And this is what we aim to do.
The GOAL is - ONE MILLION for BAITADI.
If you want to learn more about the event and register to participate in the cycling challenge click here
In 2012, we raised a total of Rs 50,000 through Biruwa's network and handed over the funds to Karma Foundation, the organization responsible for disbursing the funds in Rukum. The event as a whole raised around Rs. 900,000. The funds were used to provide birthing equipments at a center in Rukum.
ABOUT KORA
Every year, on the third Saturday in July, riders from Nepal and different nationalities gather in Kathmandu (last year we were close to 300 riders) to ride a personal challenge ride of 50 kilometers around Kathmandu Valley. This is now popular as the KATHMANDU KORA, this year on its third edition.
Started in 2011, a modest 35 riders challenged themselves and got pledges of around half a million Nepali Rupees for a school and an orphanage in Kathmandu. In its second edition, almost 300 riders turned up and raised close to a million rupees for upgrading birthing facilities in RUKUM, a rural mountainous district in Nepal.
A Kora is a circumambulation devotees make around religious sites, usually clockwise. This is a Kora of Kathmandu, of the three main religious sites of Swayambhunath, Boudha and Pashupatinath.
Read about our experience at last year's KORA here.
Read about our trip to Simrutu VDC, Rukum here.
Organizer
Vidhan Rana
Organizer
Boston, MA
