On the occasion of the day-17th July, when the PASCHIM PAAILA CAMPAIGN was initiated exactly one year back was observed as a birth day of “paschim paaila”.
With the chairing from Mr. Bhushan Tuladhar, Chief Technical Advisor of ENPHO, who was the initiator of the campaign as well, the program begun. Firstly, all the paschim paaila field volunteers of Jajarkot, Rukum, Surkhet and Dailekh and other volunteers introduced themselves, and then continued to welcome speech by Mr. Giri Raj Khatri, president, “paschim paaila”. The overall updates and the reflections of the first step (FIRST PAAILA) and second step (SECOND PAAILA) was made from Mr. Phurba Sange Moktan, Coordinator, ”paschim paaila” in which he highlighted the major activities and achievements throughout the campaign (ABHIYAN) along with the major challenges that were faced. Following his presentation, Mr. Bhushan Tuladhar, ENPHO firstly thanked the team for leading the campaign, and added his idea and suggestion to make this endeavors more successful in future, not from his own but on behalf of ENPHO as well.
Mr. Bipin Dongol, ENPHO followed his presentation and encouraged the volunteers and had group discussions and presentations with dividing 3 groups as governance, future activities and fund raising for the road ahead to the third step (THIRD PAAILA). With the consent of all the participants’ volunteers, 11 members’ one executive board was decided to form which will be representative and inclusive as well but the board members will be selected only on next meeting. Similarly, 9 membered one fundraising team was formed for 2 months’ period for raising fund for PASCHIM PAAILA EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND.
At last, the program was concluded with the conclusion remarks of Bhushan Tuladhar at about 5 pm.