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, July 3, 2008

Equipment needed - Keep an eye on this to see how we go with getting all the gear needed

12 kayaks (2 have been sponsored by Far Away adventures, 2 donated by Canoe and Kayak, 2 donated from a Swedish company Kajaktiv)

12 spray-decks (3 sponsored by Fergs Kayaks in Wellington, 12 Sponsored by Skirt works - U.S.A)


12 paddles (1 has been donated by Emily Maynard, 5 donated by the Neilson Family, 2 donated by Fergs Kayaks in Wellington)


12 paddle jackets (1 donated by Anna White, 1 donated by Sophie Hoskins)


12 pairs of kayak shorts


12 wetsuits


12 buoyancy aids (2 donated by Fergs Kayaks in Wellington)


12 helmets (12 donated by PRO-TEC)


12 sets of thermals i.e. bra’s, tops, long-johns (Some donated by icebreaker)


12 dry bags 10 litre


12 dry bags 40 litre


12 throw bags (sponsored by northwater.com)


12 river knives


12 pairs of river shoes


All the equipment donated to this project will after the training be used by the Nepali Girls Kayaking club for training purposes, expeditions and working on commercial trips when rafting companies ca not provide the girls with gear.


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