I am back in Nepal now. AHV has moved out of the city and is in three villages. I live about four hours outside of the capital city of Kathmandu in a village called Melamchi. This small village lies next to a beautiful flowing E-Coli filled river. The village is a small and quite place, much different than where I used to live in KTM. Our other base is in Nuwakot, also a few hours from KTM. I have not been here yet, but when the Melamchi base closes down in two months I may move there for a month or so. We also have a satellite base in Kagati where we are finishing up the last 15 of the 50 Homes.
I have been living at a satellite base in Melamchi that we call "the gau". Gau means village in Nepali. At the gau we live in tents and cook over the fire. Every morning atop the mountain we are living on we look out and see a portion of the Lantang Valley (part of the Himalayas).
I have been working on the Hamro Ramro Ghar project which is an updated version of the 50 Homes project I used to team lead on. In addition to a better designed house we are also building 50 new toilets for the community and also providing safe building training for the locals called PASSA training. We continue to rubble houses and help rebuild this broken country after the two earthquakes last Spring.
As far as I know the petrol crises is still going on. I do not see the effects of it as much now that I am not living in the city but it continues to be a problem for the locals and NGOs trying to rebuild.