Two years ago, in 2014, a Facebook group called US-Nepal Help Network was founded by two emigrate from Nepal. Despite being just initial Facebook group they were able to connect more than five thousand Nepalese origin people in the United States. They do not just unite the people from their country together they also help hundreds of people who are in need of their help and advice.
This group was founded by a young 22 years old Nepali undergraduate who came to the United States for his graduation. But just in a matter of time, he was able to unite some other people of his origin and his group gained massive recognition throughout the country. Today its network has expanded to the whole United States and is able to connect people of same cultural background together and help each other through their struggle in a foreign country.
Unlike many another cultural group which exist in the country, this group was able to fascinate me because of the efforts they are making to unite together and preserve their culture and tradition despite being millions of miles away from their country. To know more about the group and examine the reaction of people towards these types of the community formed, I decided to interview some of the members of the group.
With the urge to know more details on the group I interviewed the founder of the group Mr. Prabesh Nepal. He was a nice looking tall guy with the extremely attractive muscular body and long hair and unshaved beard.He looked more like an Arabic to me rather than Nepali.
“Have your seat ma’am”, he said as he pulled out the chair for me. It was around five in the evening and the cafeteria was very busy with couples and some children laughing and playing across the hallway. “I am so glad that you m...
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...s of the groups living miles away from our homes to fulfill our own dreams, yet our small contribution has helped save some life and make someone’s life easier. This isn’t the very big step but merely a small one through which we can contribute to making the world a better place to live in; not just for ourselves but others as well.
US-Nepal Help Network is a community of five thousand Nepalese living their lives in the United States, which have been working together to create a community for themselves combining the people from their country and preserving their culture. And at the same time serving to the mankind by helping those who are helpless and seeking for support in their country. Overall, it was a great experience for me as I came across some of the beautiful people around me with even more pretty hearts filled with affection and hope for the better world.
I thought it would be an interesting idea to enlighten and inform people about the Lao Iu Mein and our process of immigrating to the U.S. as well as the challenges we have to overcome. I interviewed my parents, Lao Iu Mein refugees who immigrated to the United States from Thailand. Through this interview, I had a chance to hear for the first time the story of my parents' struggles and experiences as they journeyed to a place where they became "aliens" and how that place is now the place they call "home."
They speak of their people’s past, of the present, and how they can be a more successful grouping of people in the future despite their oppression. In one song labeled “The Storm” by Doc Battiest, the lyric talk about historical occurrences in his native area of Florida. He speaks of kids dying of suffocation as their mothers shove dirt in their mouth as soldiers walk by. Sacrificing one to protect the camp where many Indians took shelter. But he explains that from this pain comes strength. His people are strengthening and their voices, which were once locked up, are now being heard. They just need a larger stage where everyone can hear what they have to say. Another perspective will open eyes and ultimately a combination of views will mold a true
Though many unpleasant events arose on Connor’s journey, perhaps one of the most significant was working at the Little Princes orphanage. The orphanage was technologically advanced in comparison to the majority Nepali housing, however it still lacked resources and space. The orphanage was deficit in essential items like food, water and clothing. On the night of Connor’s arrival, he learns that “Dal Bhat is eaten by about 90 percent of the Nepalese people, twice a day” (Grennan 11). It soon became evident that the vast majority of Katmandu’s residents were unable to afford more than two meals daily. Additionally, the extreme level of poverty in Nepal only allowed for civilians to eat an incredibly primitive meal, Dal Bhat, which consisted of rice and lentils. This meal provided inadequate nutritional value and lacked the variety of ingredients essential to maintaining good health. Due to deficit resources, the orphanage is undoubte...
The support and awareness that is offered also serves as psychological help as well. Hemant Wadhwani, president of the Asian American Political Coalition says, "Expressing solidarity helps counter the feelings victims of bias crimes often have of being rejected and different culturally."(Crouse) This kind of negative racial action can have a real impact on the human mind and can definitely affect the Sikh American community. When they Sikh Americans see th...
Initially, the organization was funded by a single donor who is credited as its founder, actor and producer Paul Walker. ...
The article, “Nepal Quake: Death Toll Passes 3,200 as Nation Struggles with Devastation”, talks about the first earthquake and how people are joining together for the sake of survival.
Most people feel that they should help the needy in some way or another. The problem is how to help them. This problem generally arises when there is a person sitting on the side of the road in battered clothes with a cardboard sign asking for some form of help, almost always in the form of money. Yet something makes the giver uneasy. What will they do with this money? Do they need this money? Will it really help them? The truth of the matter is, it won't. However, there are things that can be done to help the needy. Giving money to a reliable foundation will help the helpless, something that transferring money from a pocket to a man's tin can will never do.
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Thousands of books and essays about poverty, causes and possible fixes have been written for others to gain an understanding and pocket a little bit of knowledge so this can soon be fixed. There are millions of organizations in today’s world that beg for money, clothes, and food so they can be sent overseas to help a poor child in Uganda or Haiti. Helping nationwide is always a good thing to be a part of; however, there are many things that can be done in each person’s community, which is always a great place to start.
Action Against Hunger or AAH is a non-profit organization that does it’s best to help this global crisis. They help to save malnourished children along with families by providing communities with safe water and sustainable food sources. Giving food is one thing, but helping teach communities to survive on their own by giving resources like crops and such for the future; is something that causes long lasting results, not just temporary ones. AAH saves the lives of severely malnourished children while helping vulnerable communities become self-sufficient. They also provide emergency aid to people that are severely in need of medical care because of natural disasters or otherwise. I chose to support this one because I like how AAH teaches communities to be independent by showing them ways to have safe water and food sources for the future, rather than just giving bags of
When we sacrifice our time to help someone in need, whether it is a great or small need, we become a part of their life and can help alleviate heavy burdens. We feel good for looking outside ourselves and contributin...
Volunteering enables an individual to make a positive impact on his or her community, while empowering the individual to better his or her life. This summer, I had the opportunity to volunteer at many diverse locations. From the hospital to the local library, I truly value my experience and treasure everything it has thought me. Volunteering lets us experience and learn things that we otherwise would not have learned; volunteering opens doors for us that we may not have been able to open before. Volunteering provides us with guidance and tolerance which we may use in the future to aid us in our decisions. At first glance, volunteering may seem to only benefit those who are helped, but on a deeper level, one can realize that volunteering benefits the volunteer as much as, if not more than, those who are helped. Not only does volunteering make a difference in one’s community, but it also helps the volunteer become a smarter, happier, friendlier and more caring individual.
In Nepal, I experienced both the progressive style of family living and the older medieval style where custom and tradition count first no matter what. More than 90% of the people in Nepal who were born between 1978 and 1998 (the Generation Y youth) still live in old medieval-style families where cultural rules govern everyday life. The people of Nepal are socially segmented along lines of caste, sub-caste and ethnicity, and values and traditions also differ from one caste to another.
Nepali belongs to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family and is closely related to Hindi. It began appearing (in an older form) in what is now Nepal around 300 C.E., when Hindu Indo-Aryans invaded the area from the south, displacing the Buddhist Kirantis. The now unified Nepal is made up of over one hundred ethnic groups, each with its own language and culture. Nepali is the national unifying language and is spoken by most Nepalis as a first or second language (O'Rourke and Shrestha 2008, 9). In addition, Nepali is spoken in other areas of the Himalayan region, including the southern part of Bhutan where it is the language of a substantial and oppressed minority called the Lhotshampa (Riccardi 2003, 539). It is this linguistically-defined minority group, which consists mostly of Hindus and Christians, that inspired my interest in the Nepali language (Chhetri 2004). Since the early 1990's, the government of Bhutan, which is officially a Buddhist kingdom, has instigated a campaign of forced eviction of Lhotshampa residents in southern Bhutan, claiming that they are illegal aliens (Minority Rights Group 2008). Because of this, a large number of Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees now live in camps in Nepal.