Much of the past two days has been absorbed by administrative duties, planning & sorting paperwork as we get a handle on where all the different projects are at that we had been working on previously.
We have noted everything down on the whiteboard associating the project # to each item and have a couple o other lists of things to do and what needs to be chased up by who, when etc. It almost seems as if their is s much to do, with not enough time to get it all done in. Bearing in mind that MJ heads home in just over two weeks.
Also seeing as many people are conserving fuel at the moment, we don’t want to go to far out of town and waste time driving around just for the sake of it, so we’ll need to look at doing a few things at a time as far as meetings with other organisations, and going places etc. goes. It is just a tad complicated to organise at the moment as things are on go slow within Kathmandu and being the Sabbath and all…
On Friday we headed to Sisters Cafe & Beauty to catch up with Hayley & Anne who have come over from the UK to do an on site assessment of the project. They only have two days left of their visit so we haven’t got to spend much time with them which is a shame as it would have been good to show them some of the other things that The Salvation Army has been involved with. They did get to experience a distribution with Major Sanga last weekend though.
On Friday Bhim & I spent the afternoon going back & forth into Jawalakhel to find out why the internet had been down for much of the day. Eventually getting everything back online in the late afternoon so we could clear the inbox.
On Saturday about mid morning MJ and I headed out of the house for a walk around the neighbourhood. Being the Sabbath pretty much everything was closed and there were hardly any vehicles on the roads. Along the way we came across the Community Earthquake Learning Center – which houses the Nepal Society for Earthquake Technology (NSET). Which may be worth a visit in the next week or so, seeing it is literally around the corner.
The NSET was conceptualized in 1994 with the main objective “to foster the advancement of science and practice of earthquake engineering and technology for mitigating the earthquake risk and increasing the seismic safety, to enhance professionalism, professional engineering and scientific ethics and to further the objectives of the International Association for Earthquake Engineering as applicable to Nepal”.
Bringing “substantial change in the application of technology to the many facets of earthquake disaster management for saving the lives of the people” has remained the guiding philosophy of NSET ever since its inception.
After setting the world to rights on our walk we headed back tot he house for lunch and got stuck into the paperwork for much of the afternoon. Even though we had got the internet going yesterday, it was down for most of the day. Only coming right in the evening after dinner.
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