Nepali Girls Rippin It Up: North Island Donations

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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, October 11, 2008

North Island Donations

My grandfather Frog is a bit of a legend and anyone who knows him, knows that he is still definitely young at heart. He has been a member of the Edgecumbe lions for years and years and my mum even remembers doing a presentation for them when she was about 16. A few weeks ago I went home to Edgecumbe and did a presentation for the local Lions club, they were impressed by this project and have generously donated $500 towards it. Thanks very much to all the Edgecumbe Lions members for your support and I look forwards to presenting to you again when i return.

Also a huge thanks to the following people for their very generous donations, this money will be a huge help towards equipment for the Nepali Girls .

- Mike Ward
- John and Meagan Ward
- John Hooker

Thanks so much, Sophie

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: This is a pretty general comment, going out to all who have helped this cause eventuate! Your doing a magnificent job, great initiative from some great minds. Have sooooo much fun that you forget your names! Myles; October 14, 2008 at 2:51 AM
Anonymous said...: my darling Sophie, I am so proud of you and the project!! Go for it! love always Mum xxxx; October 29, 2008 at 3:15 AM

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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.