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- December 2007: Many organizations around the world (Kenia, Ethiopia, Gambia, Sudan, Nigeria, Indonesia, Cambodia, Mongolia, Malaysia, Fiji, Peru, Haiti) have requested the technologies developed by FoST.
- www.theworldchallenge.co.ukDecember 2007: FoST is runner-up and has received $10.000 for futher development of their activities.
- www.theworldchallenge.co.ukOctober 2007: FoST has been selected as one of the 3 finalists. The award ceremony in will be held on the 4th of December in The Hague.
- www.theworldchallenge.co.uk
June 2007: The jury of the World Challenge has chosen FoST as one of the dozen finalists to be filmed for the 2007 series. The popular programmes will be shown on BBC World and featured in Newsweek from October 2007. Over 940 nominations were received which makes reaching the final 12 a great achievement for FoST! - MoneyToNepal.com has offered an online donation system with ZERO fees
- MoneyToNepal.com makes their Kathmandu office and staff available to FoST
IMPORTANT NEWS: FoST runner-up World Challenge 2007
Dear everyone,
I am very happy to tell you that FoST is runner up in the World Challenge 2007 and has won $10.000 in this global competition organized by BBC World, Shell and Newsweek. With more than a 1000 nominations / participants from around the world, it is a fantastic achievement for this small, but very dedicated Nepalese organization.
Because of surgery to his back Sanu Kaji Shrestha couldn't travel from Nepal to Holland, so he asked me to represent him at the World Challenge ceremony in the Hague to accept the prize. Which as you can imagine was an honor for me.
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Here I received the certificate and prize for FoST Nepal from Roxanna Decyk, Shell Director Corporate Affairs |
Myself with the project from Peru |
The 3 finalists of the World Challenge 2007, with people from the BBC World (organizers) and people from Newsweek and Shell (sponsors) |
Thanks to the exposure in Newsweek and on BBC World over the last month, Sanu has already received more than a dozen request from countries in Africa, Asia, South America and even in the Pacific of people and organizations who now want to replicate FoST's technologies, projects and ideas!
This month Sanu Kaji Shrestha is invited to Cambodia to teach his skills and share is knowledge with the Grady Grossman school. And this is only the beginning..
For us this is a dream come true, because now Sanu can help the Nepalese rural and urban poor, while protecting the environment, but he can share his work with the rest of the world who are facing the same daily struggles and hardships in life. FoST's solutions to these global problems are so simple and cheap, but highly effective. This small Nepalese organization is becoming an example to many countries in the world.
I would like to thank you all for your support and for your vote. I am very grateful!
If you want to be a part of this great project, maybe by helping FoST with fundraising, volunteering or by making a donation so that FoST can focus even more on their efforts, please do not hesitate to contact us. You can also contact Sanu Kaji Shrestha on www.fost-nepal.org
Download PDF: FoST - Their solutions to global problems
SEE THE BBC WORLD DOCUMENTARY ABOUT FoST
Warm regards and again, THANK YOU!!
Sandra Wijnveldt
GORP Productions mission is to create awareness for organizations and people helping nature,
the environment, animals and children. Our video documentaries
are distributed to key people who can have a positive impact on the work of these heroes of today's world.
End of 2006 Edwin, our daughter Zoë and myself left to Nepal to work as volunteers. It was a great experience we will never forget.
We thought it would be a great idea to film our experiences in Nepal and also to make a small promotional documentary about the organization we visited. We wanted to show step by step how this organization called FoST is working, where the money is spend on, who exactly is benefiting from donations, the programs, the devices and products, the people involved etc...
For more information about FoST and it’s founder Sanu Kaji Shrestha go to PROJECTS, watch our ONLINE VIDEO or go to PHOTO GALLERY have a look at the photo’s I made during our trip.
Remember we are not professional documentary makers (yet), but we are a small Dutch family trying to do some humanitarian work and help our planet. This was our own initiative, we financed the whole trip ourselves and my husband and I worked on the video in the evenings after work.
If you would like to receive an original copy
of the video, please let me know as I would be delighted to send
it to you.
