Results of the Pilot Phase

Two solar panels are installed in two schools. The light is there. The toilet has been finished the very recent days and will offer the best sanitation facilities in the village. The villagers have been deeply engaged from the very first sight of the SMILES team, when carrying the panels and the batteries to Kalimati, until the finalizing of the toilet. Now they are asking for more work to do. The SMILES team has proved to be an efficient and hard working team in this first trial. We are especially happy to have a young woman, Neelu Shrestha, in the team. She will in herself be a good ideal and inspiration to the girls in the village. Following is the personal report from Surya Thapa after completing his first mission in SMILES.

start of our project SMILES, the team has made a visit to Kalimati again with some new faces in that region like me, Surya Thapa and Dhirendra Kumar Chaudhary. This is the first visit of mine.

Kalimati is one of the remote villages in Eastern Nepal, in Sindhuli district. In this visit I found that it is a compulsion of people in that area to go either Banepa or Kathmandu for better health services, for better educational services and for other services as well.

In this time we got some material with us for the purpose of schools in Kalimati village and Siudibar village. We took two solar panels and two batteries as well as switches, lamps and other accessories required for lighting in school. The material was purchased from Lasersun Energy P. Ltd Kathmandu, which is one of the established organizations in the field of alternative energy resources in Nepal.