Dear friends, Namaste, we wish you and your loved ones a lot of joy, happiness and health

We are looking forward to a new collaboration. The Dolalghat Beautiful team has been on board since the beginning of 2024. With Swiss support, a local community is carrying out various useful measures in their village of Dolalghat to improve school education, medical care and organic farming. In addition, the local school's cleaning activities are keeping the environment and the village image clean and raising awareness locally and among tourists Waste management is important for an intact environment. Please read more under “Projects” Dolalghat.

Of course, the effects of the Covid measures also had an impact on our activities in Nepal. So the construction of a baby coffee tree nursery was planned for a coffee plantation. This was not possible because neither transport nor communication to and with the local community worked sufficient. The planting project has now been put on hold and we are now planning to buy raw coffee from families and cooperatives as a first action to support them financially. Producing seedlings and planting it are next steps we are planning.

 We are still looking for transport opportunities for importing the beans into Switzerland and roasting the green coffee locally. If you know someone who undertakes transports from Nepal to Europe/Switzerland or have a transport pending and still have capacity for this, we would be grateful for information.

Did you know that Nepal can offer excellent conditions for top quality coffee? If the cultivation location is perfect, the coffee bean shows a quality that can be market internationally. A multiple planting with crop that provide the necessary shade, such as e.g. citrus trees etc., results in double or triple benefits and income without pushing pressure on the land.

We are now supporting a newly established cooperation for coffee cultivation in a remote village with the best climatic conditions for coffee. The initial investments such as purchase of baby coffeeplants, tools, training and help in marketing are services provided by Nepalhilfe.ch. Local and European experts are available for our questions and actions.

Thank you very much from us as well as from the recipients in Nepal for your support.

Monika Kohler, Janardan Gautam, Sören Rasmussen, Maria Kohler