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

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Gear and Money update
After tearing my hair out a few times trying to be an accountant I think I have finally figured out how much we raised and what we spent it on so here it is.

Raffle - $2520
Sausage Sizzle by Western Heights Highschool year ten girls - $196
Edgecumbe Lions Club - $500
Methven Lions Club - $500
Emi Earle's Beanie knitting - $290
Donations: $600
- John Hooker
- Mike Ward
- John and Meagan Ward
- Greg and Hillary Turnbull
- Graham and Vivienne Campion
- Terry and Stephen Leggart
- Bronie Clayton

This is a total of $4606
so where did the money go ............................................................. read on to find out.

We have purchased the following items with the funds we have raised

- 4 Kayaks (Mini-mystic, method air, method, RPM)
- 3 x leader B.A's
- 3 x Hydraulics mumblies
- 7 x Day two neoprene wetsuit shorts
- 2 x kokotat semi dry tops
- 2 x rasdex semi dry tops
- 10 x nose plugs
- 3 x rescuebelt/towline/cowstail/biner
- 1 x second hand hydraulics race pro and 1 x second hand bomber dry tops (thanks to Ryan Hunt for the great deal on these two)
- 6 x sets of airbags
- 12 x river knives

We have a few hundred left, which we will give to Inka to put into the Himalayan River Girls fund for other expenses that may pop up for the Nepali girls

So if you have any questions about any of that, feel free to ask away. Thanks for keeping updated, Soph and the kiwi crew.

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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.