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Nepal June 2015 from McKennah Cannon on Vimeo.

Day 8 Photos

Day 8 Construction

Day 7 Photos

This is one of the beautiful sunrises I saw from the roof of the hotel.

This is the front of the Buddhist monastery that our hotel was next to.

This is the main entrance to the Stupa, which we walked through several times a day.

These are some kind of tractor thing that people drove around on the main roads. They move really slow and are really hard to turn, I would not recommend buying one.

This is what the School looked like before we started our work.



Every Youthlinc Team paints a mural to commemorate their trip.

And this is our team's mural, with our in country coordinator Nabin.

We painted all of classrooms in the lower building, this was the last wall we painted.

We also painted the fence that surrounded the school, which was no easy task, it took us pretty much the entire trip to get it finished.

This wall has all of the children's hands in yellow, blue and red and the members of our team in green.

Before

After

Day 7 Can you Paint like Picasso?

Day 6 Photos

This was at the first site we visited, Durbar Square. It is a statue of King Bhupatindra Malla that is in the middle of the square.

This is only one of the windows in the 55 Windows Palace.

The Golden Gate is the entry way to the 55 Windows Palace.
 

Nyatapola Temple is in Taumadhi Square, just a few minutes walk from the first place we visited. It is still standing even after both earthquakes.

These statues run up the side of Nyatapola Temple.  

Unfortunately not every building could withstand the powerful earthquakes and ended up as a huge pile of rubble.



After visiting the two different squares we went to an art school that made paintings of mandalas as well as the Life of Buda and Wheel of Life.
 



On the way back to the vans, we saw this thing in the middle of the road. I'm not really sure what it is but I think it was some part of a festival.

Day 6 Excursion Day

Day 5 Photos

The women in this picture are working on one of the reusable  menstrual pads. We taught the women to sew these the day after the sewing machines had come to the school.



These are some pictures from later days in the week of the women working on the pillowcase dresses.

This is a picture of the afternoon sewing group with their finished pillowcase dresses.



This is the Principal's daughter wearing the pillow case dress that she made.  

 

This woman is a teacher at the school, she use all the free time she had in the sewing room. By the time we left she had completed this pillow case dress all by herself.

Day 5 Sewing 102

Day 4 Photos

Every morning at 7:30 we had boiled eggs, hot milk, bananas, and toast.




Since we didn't have sewing machines, we had the
women cut out fabric for the pads we would be
working on soon. 
 

 

The women were very eager to learn how to sew but we hadn't had very much time to learn how to use them ourselves. We lived by the phrase "learn by doing".  



When the machines finally came the women
were very anxious to work on them,
but it was pretty hard to get them working.

This cute little girl would come into the sewing room every day with her mother and watched us work.



This is one of the teachers at the Primary school. She would come in whenever she got the chance so that she could learn to sew.

The mountain sides in Nepal are covered with these terraces for rice paddies.



Only in Nepal can you find cows just hanging out anywhere, even on a bed sitting on someone's porch.



Or just sitting in the middle of the road.



Day 4 Sewing 101

Day 3 Photos

 

 This was taken on the second floor of the school where we ate lunch.

 

 As a helper I got to take these kids from class to class all day long.

 

 This English lesson was on sports terms like passing, kicking, and of course GOOOOAAALLLL.

 

 Duck, duck, goose was a very popular game at the school, the kids loved to play it.

 

This is a picture of most of the kids at the school (plus McKennah in the back).




This is what the sewing room looked like when we arrived.

It took half the day just to get all of this stuff out so that we could start really cleaning it for the sewing machines that were arriving the next day.

 

 

We used these tin roofing pieces to build a wall so that we could have a sewing room and another classroom.