While following this project, I’m sure many have noted that boys will be boys. Yet I thinks it’s fair to say that also girls will be girls! While back home in Finland, the boys have repaired their car and made preparations for their daredevil adventure, the girls in Nepal have designed and made splendid jewellery with their deft Are goes …
Bead update 30.7.
Beads Hannes and Elina have accomplished a lot during the past two weeks in Nepal with sorting, cataloguing and taking photos of the jewellery. The biggest challenge for them has been to deliver the finished material to Finland, as the internet connections have been really poor (even when downloading overnight they’ve only been able to download a few megabits to …
Status update 29th July
A short overview of the project. Drivers Mikael and Juho have now been involved in this project full time while running their own businesses. Rico and Misa have been working very long days in their summer jobs, respectively, so that the shortened period at work would not reflect too harshly on their winter budgets when they continue their studies. Today …
One more reason.
I buried my grandpa today. I am his only grandchild and his only male descendant. We were very close. Already when I started to plan this project I knew that grandpa would probably not see it come to reality. This funeral was one of those where death was a silent savior that led away the tired and suffering. This funeral …
Onnellisten ihmisten maa
Nepaliin laskeutuessa humaltuu pelkästä maisemasta. Vuorien ympäroimä Kathmandu on kuin valtava helmimeri kaikissa sateenkaaren väreissä. Täällä kulkee ensimmäiset päivät ihan turistina kamera kaulassa ja haluaa kuvata jokaisen ohikulkijan. Jokainen niistä kantaa mukanaan niin paljon tarinoita ja elämää. Vähitellen kamera unohtuu laukkuun ja sitä heittäytyy osaksi katuelämää: loikkii kuraisin kengin nukkuvien koirien yli, huikkaa ”namaste” nauraville lapsille, seisoo lehmien kanssa keskellä …