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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">On the 18<sup>th</sup> January 2011 Naomi, Matt, Harry, Stewart and Erin went to Nepal as part of their Adventure Tourism Management Degree.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The main part of the degree is to organise and take part in a 25 day expedition. We choose to go to Nepal to work with NavaJyoti School in Lalipur (Just outside of Kathmandu City).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The children were so so lovely. Even though they were living below the poverty line, they couldn’t have been happier</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The money we have raised so far has been raised in a number of different ways:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> <strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">· We all finished the EDF Birmingham ½ Marathon in October 2010</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">· Naomi, Erin & Harry all did carboot sales </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">· Naomi and Matt have both sold items on eBay</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; background: white;"><strong style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">· And in October, we hosted a student event called Beach Party on Everest. </span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The money that is raised on this site will be going towards improving sanitation at the school as well as buying educational resources.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; background: white; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">29% of Nepalese children having no access to primary education, Future For Nepal attempts to overcome this social injustice through its sponsorship programme. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">Nava Jyoti Lower Secondary School </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> has about 150 children registered.</span></p>
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