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.
In this day of globalization and social media, this has meant that these Native groups are reaching out to the world for support and to educate our political leaders and the populace about environmental concerns. This has resulted in a better understanding of Native spirituality. Groups such as the Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers (http://www.grandmotherscouncil.org/), Idle No More (http://www.idlenomore.ca/), The Nibi Walk project (nibiwalk.org), The First Peoples Worldwide (http://firstpeoples.org/wp/), and numerous other groups have been created to promote environmental projects, sway political processes, and share the beliefs about why these things are important to Native
People’s lives are changed every day by their actions and experiences. This past summer, I participated in a community service project, an experience that opened my eyes in many ways. I was a volunteer at the County Memorial Hospital. In my time as a volunteer at the hospital, I was able to meet patients and staff members from all over the world and learn about their life experiences. Listening to all of their stories has made me truly appreciate everything which I have.
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.
Salil Shetty. 2016. Making Change, the Challenge and The Potential ( speech to IAVE World Volunteer Conference). Retrieved from
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
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.
For instance, it was an extremely sunny day in Ghana, West Africa, and I had gone out to the well to fetch water. It was while carrying the bucket of water on my way back that I noticed my neighbor’s children fighting over the insufficient amount of food that they had to share. My family and I were not rich but from what I saw, I knew that we were better off than other people I knew. I carried the bucket of water inside the house and came back outside to call the two youngest children that were fighting over the last grain of food. I shared my food my food with them and though it was not sufficient for all, feeding the younger ones alone was better than not helping any one of them at all. There was only little that I could possibly do but by sharing, I had helped them in a great way, even if it was just for the time being.
The American Anthropological Association 's (AAA) aim is to offer guidelines and promote education and discussion. American anthropologists do this often by speaking and interacting with individuals living and experiencing the culture. Truly understanding, learning, and becoming accustomed to a new cultural environment takes a significantly long period of time, perhaps even years of exposure to the culture in order to truly understand traditions, morals, and customs. For instance in the Shostak`s study on the !Kung people, it was important for the researchers to say words correctly, at appropriate times, and in a culturally accepted manner, in addition, in order to interview individuals, specifically women, the anthropologist would ask one to “enter work” with her and they would talk for an hour or a day, or over a long period of time, perhaps two weeks. When studying another culture, American anthropologists include host country colleagues in their research planning and when requesting funding, establish true collaborative relationships, include host country colleagues in dissemination, including publication, and they also ensure that something is given back to the host. When studying other countries, the process is done carefully and thoughtfully, in order to end the study with new information on a culture and to establish new connections
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.