Watch this video about solutions for Nepal, such as poverty, pollution, deforestation, high fuel costs, indoor air pollution....

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3128310824574419070&q=FoST+Nepal&total=3&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

In case you need the video for educational purposes, download the Torrent File for the video here: http://www.prym.net/torrent.php?t=X3uQch

FOST, saw your video. I appreciate what you are doing and wish you all the best.

Regards,

Rai ( DUMI)

can u seed that file.

Very informative and encouraging.Hope Fost wins that award.
please keep us updated.

There is still hope for Nepal as long as people like Sanu exist.

Hi Sujanks, what do you mean by "can u seed that file"? I am sorry, I don't understand...

Download the latest Realaudio Player and you can download it for viewing offline of your desktop.

I saw the video. Greatly appreciate your work/contributions, fost. Anyway, I have already voted for Sanukaji's project although it puzzles me as to why would the winner be based on the number of votes they get. I mean...shouldn't they be looking at how it has/will transform people's lives or how relevant that project will be in future..kinda stuffs?

Thank you Sandra, Edwin, Zoey, Sanu Kaji and FoST. What a wonderful opportunity for Nepal. I have you bookmarked in my site, and computer. I will feed sustainable idea when it appears to me.

Regarding that seeding. I thougth i was suppose to download via torrent. and when i tried, no one were seeding that file. but, that's okay, i saw the video on google. Thank you again.

This seems like a very practical project to solve some of the problems in Nepal.

Thanks Sedif!  The video on Google is our personal video that my husband, my 9 year old daughter and myself made. We are not professional filmmakers, but we just wanted to show the world about this project we visited when in Nepal.
By putting the video on Google, people got more aware, as did the BBC World. They flew to Nepal in June / July to make their own small documentary about FoST which will be shown on Tuesday for the World Challenge 2007. Don't miss it, it's very good!

take care, Sandra

my last message is also to Sujanks of course. Thanks for your interest and support. Very much appreciate it.  Sandra

Very important is that FoST is not targeting only one certain group or only one certain problem. They are looking for answers and solutions to stop the vicious circle the rural and urban poor are facing not only in Nepal, but on our whole planet.

With their simple, but highly effective solutions they are fighting important global problems such as:

- POVERTY (by educating and empowering communities, teach them how to save costs, creating opportunities for them to earn extra money and even start their own business)

- POLLUTION (by introducing more sustainable technologies and clean renewable energies such as solar power for daily use)

- WASTE AND GARBAGE (by using waste such as paper, saw dust etc... to make briquettes as fuel)

- DEFORESTATION (by using briquettes made from waste instead of wood)

- DESERTIFICATION / LANDSLIDES  (caused by clearing of trees and plants for firewood)

- ILLNESSES CAUSED BY INDOOR AIR POLLUTION such as eye and lung diseases (by introducing more efficient cooking stoves creating less smoke)

- ILLNESSES CAUSED BY CONTAMINATED WATER such as diarrhoea, parasites, cholera... (by introducing simple water purification systems working on solar power)

- ILLNESSES CAUSED BY LACK OF HYGIENE (by introducing simple hygienic solar drying devices - food is longer kept and of better quality)

- HIGH FUEL COSTS FOR COOKING (by teaching people how to make their own fuel briquettes from waste materials, therefor lowering their daily costs of fuel (20% of daily costs). Fuels such as fire wood, kerosene and L.P. gas are becoming more and more expensive)

- OUTCASTS (by empowering and educating orphans, handicapped, blind, deaf, mentally retarded, people suffering from diseases or suffering because of an accident... FoST empowers them by education and teaches them skills enabling them to be independent and important to the community)

- TIME CONSUMING DAILY TASKS such as fetching wood for cooking (by creating more efficient cooking devices - cooking with briquettes and / or solar power)

www.gorpproductions.com

Don't forget to have a look at page 15 in this weeks Newsweek. There's an article about Nepalese innovator Sanu Kaji Shrestha. One more week and we know if he has won the World Challenge 2007

ONLY ONE MORE DAY! Tomorrow voting closes, so if you have not yet voted for FoST in the World Challenge 2007 (which I guess most of you have) today is your last chance!

Thanks everyone!

take care, Sandra Wijnveldt