Nepali Girls Rippin It Up

What this is all about - Scroll down for latest updates!!!

This blog is all about a kayaking project for Nepali girls and our adventure to get over there and help them out. We will keep you updated through this blog with how sponsorship and donations are going and hopefully while we are over there we can keep posting on here - Thanks for checking it out.

The aim of the project is to produce a group of female river guides to work on the rivers in Nepal as safety kayakers, raft guides and kayak instructors. It will be a perfect base for the women to start training and eventually work and support themselves as employees or free lance guides within the Nepal white-water industry.

If you would like to help out in any way with this project whether it's advice, sponsorship, gear, donations, idea's or anything else then please send us an email, give us a call or follow the donations link, it would be much appreciated. Cheers

Check out Inka Trollsas's website (she is the instigator of this awesome project), which has more info about the trip and how things are going from her end. http://www.farawayadventures.com/nepaligirlkayakers.php

Saturday, November 1, 2008

RAFFLE RESULTS
We have one week left till we head over to Nepal, yesterday the raffle was drawn and 5 lucky people won some awesome prizes. Thank you so much to everyone who helped out by buying tickets. Also a huge thanks to all who helped sell tickets.

We made a total of $2500 from the raffle, which is being used to purchase gear for the Nepali Girls.

An update will follow this week with what gear has been purchased and how the final preps are going.

Once again a huge thank you to all involved with this raffle, here are the results.

1st place: Jenny Neilson from Twyford - 2 nights accommodation at a beach front Bach in Ohope, thanks to the Lelievre family

2nd place: Daniel Bowie from Waipukurau - 2 nights accommodation at a lake front Bach in Taupo, thanks to the White family

3rd place: Brent Whibley from Rotorua - A trip for 2 white-water rafting down the Tongariro River, thanks to Garth at Tongariro River Rafting.

4th place: Steven from Rotorua - A trip for 2 White-water rafting down the Kaituna River, thanks to Noel at Wet n Wild Rafting.

5th place: Stefan Bennett from Rotorua - A double pass for the movies and rock-climbing, thanks to The Wall and The Basement Cinema' Rotorua.

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ABOUT US

So far there are 7 of us Kiwi girls committed to this project. We are all great buddies and have spent a lot of time together on and off the river. We have all come through Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology where we studied Outdoor Education and Recreation in some form. Most of us spent last summer paddling and hanging out in Uganda on the White Nile where we had a blast. We are super excited about this trip to Nepal and the opportunity to be part of this amazing project.

What we are up to now ............................

Malaika Davies

Malaika has filled the last few years with heaps of traveling, working and exploring in countries all over the show. Malaysia, India, States, Ireland, Scotland, and generally getting into all kinds of exciting situations. She always has an exciting adventure brewing and can't wait to rock it with the Nepali women on the waters of Nepal. Malaika has just finished her teaching studies so is now stoked to be an Outdoor Education teacher, and is heading to OPC to save her pennies until the Nepal trip kicks off. Malaika has her NZOIA kayak one award and spent the summer of 2005 working for the NZ kayak school.