What happened in Nepal so far? Some insights and best wishes!

Namaste everyone,

as of today (24.12.25), we’ve raised over 22,000 € for our Global Guardians project — thank you to everyone who has supported so generously!

That’s more than 85% of our 25,000€ goal to provide access to practical education to 8,500 children in Nepal.
 
Since last week, hundreds of children in Nepal received new winter school clothes and participated in the first Global Guardian Workshops! And many more are to come until end of December.



This year's workshops focuses on environmental awareness related to paper, starting with questions like “Where does paper come from? How is it produced?”.  

Children were especially eager to connect with the senses, by observing and touching different types of paper and its natural sources wood or even lokta – a common plant, which is a more sustainable source of paper in Nepal. It grows much faster than wood and the texture is a bit different. 



As a next step, the connection between nature and humans is further analyzed:
"What happens to the environment and human health when we cut trees and burn paper waste?
How can we reduce paper consumption and how can we reuse old paper?"

To make it practical, the Nepali education team created beautiful art and paper works - simply from old newspaper and natural glue (water and flour)! Children were very inspired and eager to learn themselves how to create this paper work step by step within the workshop. 



This is just one example of environmental awareness workshops. Within the next year, further formats and contents of the Global Guardian Workshops Series will be developed and conducted in all 16 public schools of Gokaneshwor – to provide inspiring environmental education to all 8500 students!



Once again, many thanks for helping to realize this project. We are grateful for your strong
support and generosity!

And as we are so close to the funding goal – let's make it possible together!
 
Thank you all for being part of something truly life-changing for 8,500 children! 🙏

Best wishes from Nepal and Germany. Happy holidays!