LKDM Friend of Nepal Award 2013 to Brad Clarke and Graeme Kent

Brad Clarke and Graeme Kent received LKDM Friend of Nepal Award 2013 on the occasion of 5th Lumbini-Kapilvastu Day. The award was given by Consulate General of Victoria His Excellency Chandra Yonjan in a function after Pako Festa parade in Geelong on 22nd of February, 2014. The award was supposed to be awarded on 1st of December, 2013 in a function organised in Melbourne, however; Mr. Clarke and Mr. Kent could not attend the program because of their program in Nepal.

Justification of the Award:

“Australia and Australians fall in love with Nepal, the birthplace  of Buddha and home to Sagamartha, Mt. Everest.  When Australians travel to Nepal, we are captured by the physical beauty of the Himalaya and its people.  We celebrate the wealth of Nepali hospitality and genuine kindness to each other and leg-weary travellers alike” – say  Graeme Kent and Brad Clarke.

अस्ट्रेलियाको पाको फेस्टामा लाखे नाच बिदेशीको आकर्षणको केन्द्र

२२ फेब्रुअरी, २०१४ जिलोङ अस्ट्रेलिया: बहुभाषिक र बहु-सांस्कृतिक देशको रुपमा परिचित अस्ट्रेलियाको जिलोङमा अस्ट्रेलियाकै एक किसिमले सबैभन्दा ठूलो महोत्सबको रुपमा मानिने पाको फेस्टाले मूल आयोजक डाभर्सिटाटसंग आबद्ध भएका करीब ९० जातीय संस्था र अन्य संगठनहरुको सहभागितामा एक लाखभन्दा बढी सहभागीहरुलाई आ-आफ्नो सांस्कृतिक चाल-चलन, रिति-रिवाज, खान-पान आदिको निरन्तरता र प्रचार प्रसारलाई प्रोत्साहन गर्दै नाच-गान, कार्यशाला गोस्ठी, प्रदर्शन जस्ता बिबिध कार्यक्रम सहित आफ्नो ३२ औं बार्षिकी भब्यताका साथ मनाउने क्रममा नेपाली समुदायद्धारा प्रदर्शन गरिएको नेपाली लाखे नाच बिदेशीहरुको लागि आकर्षणको केन्द्र बन्न पुग्यो । पाको फेस्टा अस्ट्रेलियाको भिक्टोरिया राज्यको प्रमुख बहु-सांस्कृतिक महोत्सबको रुपमा लिने गरिन्छ र गत चार बर्षदेखि यो कार्यक्रममा सहभागीहरुको संख्या एक लाखभन्दा बढी हुने गरेको छ भने यस महोत्सबले उक्त एक दिनमा नै करीब पच्चीस लाख अस्ट्रेलियन डलरको योगदान स्थानीय बजारमा दिने अनुमान गरिएको छ ।

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Indira Ranamagar nominated for ‘Children’s Nobel’

STOCKHOLM, FEB 08 –

Indira Ranamagar , a Nepali child rights activist, is among the three candidates nominated for this year’s World Children’s Prize, also known as the Children’s Nobel.

Ranamagar has been nominated for her 20-year struggle for prisoners’ children in Nepal.

“She grew up in extreme poverty and had to fight to be able to go to school. Even as a young girl she knew that she wanted to help other people who had hard lives,” according to the the website of the foundation that presents the award.

The other two candidates in the running are Malala Yousafzai , the teenaged Pakistani education activist attacked by the Taliban and John Wood, a former manager in Microsoft.

Yousafzai has been nominated “for her courageous and dangerous fight for girls’ right to education”, according to the website.

“She started to speak out for girls’ rights at the age of 11, when the Taliban banned girls from going to school in the Swat Valley in Pakistan,” it stated.

“Malala defied the rules and kept going to school. Her life was under threat and at times she had to go into hiding. Finally, at the age of 15 Malala was shot and almost killed by the Taliban on her way home from school. But Malala survived.”

According to Yousafzai’s candidate profile, the Taliban thought they could silence Malala by killing her.

“Instead they gave her an even stronger voice, which can now be heard all over the world,” it stated.

“John Wood has been nominated for the 2014 World’s Children’s Prize for his 15-year fight for children’s right to education,” his candidate profile reads.