January 23, 2018 (Nepal) Women Leaders in Action Reflection Workshop As we completed the first year of the program Women Leaders in Action (WLA), we did review reflection workshop in late December 2017. 37 women peace activists from 35 districts of Nepal were present in the workshop. The women expressed their happiness and remembered the time when they couldn't even introduce themselves. Coming to this day, these women are well known in their community because of their leadership in peacebuilding. We also congratulated and gave a token of love to two women peace activists, Ms. Umita Bishwokarma and Ms. Rajina Budhathoki who have won in the provincial and local election respectively. We wish all of them more success. See More
January 22, 2018 (Nepal)
Students studying at class 7, 8 and 9 at the Reliance English Secondary Boarding School, held at Hetauda sub-continent, Vada Namb 5, have supported food items at Om Omshram in Hetauda 2.
Students at the Peace Club and Sustainability Development Club in the school have helped in collaboration with American students coming to Nepal for studying through Global Network for sustainable development. They reached the ashram and transferred there fruit, wiscuits, jaws and other food items for sheltered ones.
Keshavalal Shrestha, founder of the school, handed over five thousand rupees from the students to Buddha Prasad Poudel of Ashram. Principal Shrestha said that the interest of student students is very influential.
Principal Shrestha, president of the Peace Club in School and Sustainable Development Club's President, Aishwarya Mishra, and humble rights.
January 16, 2018 (Nepal) Mathilde Rispoli and Marcus Wolf from Poenix in their daily routine during visit in Kathmandu.
January 14, 2018 (Nepal) In January 2017 we participated in Global Youth Peace Conference organized by the Youth Parliament of Nepal in Kathmandu. GNSD had there a panel during which the members of the panel briefly presented their expertise, as well as how they see their own investment in youth. Please click on the photo to read the bio of the panel participant.
Above are the photos of partcipants of the panel in the following order: Dr. Marek Wosinski , Moderator, President of GNSD, Senior Sustainability Scientist, Arizona State University (USA); Mira Jankowska, Manager, Academy of Love, Warsaw (Poland); Birendra Kumar, Vice-President of GNSD; Director of Mahatma Gandhi College of Social Work; Director of the Non-Violence Project Foundation (India); Osee Lieberman, MA, Vice-President of GNSD, President of Halsten Enterprise (USA); Bibesh Manandhar , Regional Coordinator for GNSD (Nepal); Swapnil Rathood, CEO, Namaste Travel (India): Susan Risa, Chief Executive Officer, Nagarik Aavaz for Peace (Nepal); Marcus Wolf, Regional Coordinator (USA); Sumit Shrestha, Suryodaya, Founder and CEO of Diversity Group Nepal; Mathilde Rispoli, Reginal Cooridnator (USA); Stephen Daniel, Regional Coordinator (Uganda); Aayush Misra and Binamra Adhikari, Presidents of Clubs at the Reliance English Secondary Boarding School in Hetauda, Nepal. Please FIND HERE detiled information about the conference.
Report from Bibesh Manandhar ( Regional Coordinators ) As we already informed you, on January 13-14 , we had in Kathmandu “Global Youth Peace Conference 2018” organized by the Youth Parliament Nepal. The team of GNSD Nepal did a fabulous job in volunteering as well as learned many organizational skills. There was many foreign delegates from countries like Bhutan, United States of America, Finland, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and so on. The Inauguration was held in the National Assembly Hall. We had our nations pride the CNN hero 2012/2016 Miss. Puspa Basnet, famous leading well known Nepalese actor Mr. Rajesh Hama,l our respected former prime minister of Nepal Mr. Khil Raj Regmi, also former chief justice of Nepal, ambassador of Bangladesh and other respected people as chief guests. We had several media persons and we were also live through national television shows like AP1 and News 24. On the second day of the conference we had panel sessions the Tourism Board of Nepal, where we had the chance to interact with people from different countries. The panel sessions were very motivating, many innovative ideas on development were shared. Two young presidents Binamra Adhikari and Aayush Mishra of clubs in Hetauda also shared their ideas and experiences from the club. Dr. Marek Wosinski, President of the Global Network for Sustainable Development shared his teaching experience, and described the process of creating of GNSD. At the end of sessions, we had a group activity, we were entertained by singing and dancing. The conference ended with distribution of certificates. At the end of the day, everybody from the conference joined the farewell dinner during which a token of love was distributed. Then we had a lot of fun with singing and dancing activities in the hotel. All participants were really pleased by the conference and flew back their home with a lot of positive feelings, and plans for our further collaboration.
January 14, 2018 (Nepal) During the breaks in sessions at the Global Youth Peace Conference in Kathmandu
January 13, 2018 (Nepal) The main purpose of my current visit in Nepal was to participate in the International Youth Peace Conference organized by Youth Parliament Nepal. GNSD was helping in organizational aspects, but most importantly – we had a panel on the topic: Global Network for Sustainable Development; Investing in Youth.
The most important result of the conference was the bond created between participants. People were talking, laughing, dancing, singing, exchanging e-mail addresses and Facebook contacts. It was a really network building event.
We also had a working session with the Leadership Team of YPN during which we prepared draft of the grant proposal for the project aiming to create peace clubs for sustainability in all districts of Nepal.
January 10, 2018 (Singapore) We visited The HEAD Foundation (THF), a charitable organisation set up in 2013 in Singapore to contribute to the development of Asia. As a think-tank, they focus on issues around human capital, education, leadership and sustainability. With an in-house research and project management team, they support research and social initiatives related to the above issues. They also run workshops and training programmes with scholars, researchers and experts from around the world. To share their knowledge with the community, they publish books, produce research reports, and host public events on a regular basis. In the long-run, they aim to influence policies and create positive social impact which will contribute to the sustainable development of Asia.
In the morning, we had a meeting with Mr. You-Book Lim, Executive director of the Foundation, Mr. C.D. Liang, Director of Development, Mr. Vignesh Naidu Director of Operations, Mr. Ben Ning, Project Manager, and Dr. Uma Natarajan, Principal Researcher. We discussed potential for long term collaboration between the Foundation and Global Network for Sustainable development (GNSD), mainly by promoting educational projects for East Asia.
In the evening, together with Bibesh Manandhar, GNSD Regional Coordinator for Nepal, we presented one hour lecture on history and vision of GNSD. Bibesh shared his experience in creating of Sustainability Clubs in Nepal, as well as our plans for collaboration with the Youth Parliament of Nepal. The lecture evoked a lot of interest and was followed by half an hour-long discussion with participants. It seems that as a result of this workshop we will have a chance to establish new and strong partnerships in Singapore. After the workshop the Team invited us for a dinner at the Indian Restaurant.
January 9, 2018 (Nepal) In few days we will have in Kathmandu the Global Youth Peace Conference organized by the Youth Parliament of Nepal. Today Mr. Diwakar Aryal, President of the YPN participated in the Good Morning Talk Show program at KANTIPUR TV. He presented the mission of the Parliament and was explaining the impact conference may have by promoting not only important social policies, but also development of tourism in Nepal. Please see below the interview (unfortunately it was conducted in Nepalese. )
January8, 2018 During the first part of my trip I participated in the International Conference on Agriculture in Emerging Economies organised by TERI University in New Delhi. I had a privilege to be a member of the Advisory Board, I delivered a keynote presentation during which I introduced the Global Network for Sustainable Development (GND), I was also a chair of the panel on agricultural education. The conference gave me an opportunity to meet few people involved in agricultural education who expressed interest in collaboration with or network. I also have a meeting with Dr. R. Seth, Vice Chancellor of the TERI University during which we discussed final details of a partnership between TERI and GNSD.
January 02, 2018 (USA) Today there was a grand opening of the Global Market. A store in the Center of Phoenix in which you can buy hundreds of products made by refugees living in Arizona. It is project coordinated by ASU social work graduate students, and one of them is Megan McDermott, friend of GNSD, who just recently returned from Nepal. We will post more photos and information on gnsd.org website :)
Global Market creators: Alyaa Al-Maadeed and Megan McDarmot
