Nepali Girls Rippin It Up: 9/7/08

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

Thursday, September 11, 2008

A whole bunch of paddles and more

We have just received an awesome donation from Josh Neilson and his whanau. 5 paddles that have taught Josh to kayak over the years will be passed on to the Nepali Girls Kayak Club. In the bunch of paddles, there was even a nice small and light crank shaft (perfect for a small Nepali Women)

Check out Josh's blog at http://whitewater-koa.blogspot.com/ he also having a film festival next friday the 19th in Auckland which is to raise funds for the softpower health clinic in Uganda. All the info about it is on his blog

Thanks heaps Josh

NEWS FROM AFAR

Monica Gokey from the states has received 12 spraydecks from a company called skirtworks, a small family owned business, so that will be a huge help towards stocking up the Club

Inka has also received a donation of two kayaks from KAJAKTIV which is awesome, so along with the two boats donated by her she has four.

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.