Subash Chepang

Case study of Subash Chepang

Name: Subash Chepang

Age: 8 years old

Subash’s mother left away when he was 7 years old. Now, he is growing up in a single-parent family; his father leaves home every day to go out and earn for daily expenses. They struggle to get basic food, clothes and shelter. Even though his father works all day long in the fields, the harvest is enough to feed them only for a year. The rest of the year, his father has to work on a daily wage basis in cement factories, construction PARMA system, etc. Due to unproductive, un-irrigable and infertile land, subsistence agriculture results famine in his family. Subash studies at Shree Rastriya Prathimik Vidhyalaya and comes at a good ranking in his class. It is fairly evident that he does better when he gets opportunities. So, Self Sustaining Campaign has decided to finance Subash in his education after Grade 3.

Sponsor’s of Nirmal Chepang

1. Sandeep Shahi
2. Kunjana Shrestha
3. Romas Tamrakar
4. Professor Rosann Bar
5. Sujan Sharma
6. Sudeep and Subodh Sapkota
7. Bimash Buda

Nirmal Chepang

Case study of Nirmal Chepang

Name: Nirmal Chepang

Age: 12 years old

Nirmal Chepang’s father is handicapped and he cannot work and carry any loads to earn for their living. His Father broke his leg when he was felling trees. Nirmal grew up in a family that depends on agriculture, and his father and mother work all day long to feed the family for a year. The striking plight of the harvest not being sufficient to feed themselves for 6 months hits them hard. This compels them to go earn through daily wage works such as working in a cement factory, construction PARMA system etc. Due to unproductive, un-irrigable and infertile land, subsistence agriculture results famine in her family. Despite growing in a struggling family, Nirmal is good in his studies. He performs better when he gets opportunities. He is studying in Grade 5 at Shree Rastriya Prathimik Vidhyalaya and achieves a fairly good ranking in his class. There is no proper direction after he passes Grade 5 in his village since his parents cannot afford to continue his education. So, Self Sustaining Campaign has decided to support Nirmal in continuing his education after Grade 5.

Sponsor’s of Nirmal Chepang

1. Sandeep Shahi
2. Kunjana Shrestha
3. Romas Tamrakar
4. Professor Rosann Bar
5. Sudeep and Subodh Sapkota
6. Bimash Buda

Case Study of Kabita Chepang

Kabita Chepang grew up in a marginalized Chepang community in a rural village in the Chitwan district of Nepal. She is unable to talk fluently, and has to walk for an hour to reach her school, a commute that is painful and exhausting. She struggles to go to school when she is hungry as there’s nothing to cook due to famine. While her mother spends much of her time in agriculture, her father is unable to work due to undiagnosed physiological problems engendered after the bus accident he had when returning from Kathmandu seven years ago. The harvest her mother brings from the fields feed them for only 6 months. Due to unproductive, un-irrigable and infertile land, subsistence agriculture comes short of an adequate food supply, which eventually leads to famine in her family for the rest of the year. All of her siblings are grown up malnourished. She has a stepmother, 3 elder brothers, a younger sister and an elder sister. Her eldest brother has 2 sons.

Meet Kabita Chepang. Kabita Chepang is one of the few selected children under our Campaign “One Child Sponsorship Program” who will be pursuing Vocational training and her education till grade 12. We would like to thank my friend Raja Karki, Aayush Palikhel​, Pratap Luitel​, Asbin bhai and Suman Bhandari​ for supporting Kabita to get her education and follow her dreams. Thank you for joining Self-Sustaining Campaign and for your generous effort. You are already a part of it now.

If you want to fund more deprived children like Kabita, please go to thislink http://www.gofundme.com/selfsustaining 

 and contribute as much as you can; even your little support will help to brighten their days.

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CASE STUDY OF MANOJ CHEPANG

CASE STUDY OF MANOJ CHEPANG

Manoj Chepang is our very first selected child under our " One Child Sponsorship Program"who will be pursuing Vocational training and education till grade 12. Our very own Cadwell Family is funding him.

He was brought up as a single parent family with lots of hardship and struggle. His mother left him when he was 2 years old. His neighbors socialized him throughout his childhood. Fortunately he got an opportunity to study in community school named: Shree Antyodaya Janajati Aawasiya Vidhayalaya since 10 years as a residential student.

He belongs to a family where his father and stepmother works all day long to feed themselves for a year, but the plight is it isn’t sufficient to feed themselves for 6 months as well. The subsistence agriculture due to unproductive and unfertile lands has created chaos in his family. All of his siblings are grown up malnourished. He has 2 elder brothers and 3 younger sisters. So there are 10 family members including stepmother, father and 2 sons from his eldest brother.

He is giving SLC (School Leaving Certificate) this year. As he has plan to study in Technical field and make a living to support himself and his family Manoj Said, “I am worried if I could continue my study after SLC because this school will not support me after this, I wish I could study and help my parents.”

Sponsors for Manoj Chepang

1.    Sachin Lala

2.     Pusparaj Aitwal

3.     Hritesh Regmi

4.     Nikesh Dhunju
5.     Professor Donald Noone

Manoj will be Continuing his education in Shree Antyodaya Janajati Aawasiya Vidhayalaya.

Manoj's House

Manoj's Father " Motilal Chepang"

POTATO FARMING

Introduction

Self Sustaining campaign is an initiation by a group of 13 members including Mr. Ruskin Gautam as Chief executive Director, Mr. Bishwas Chepang as Managing Director, and 1 IT Technicians and 9 Chepang members headed by Mr. Rabilal Chepang to minimize the poverty and help the Chepang community in income generational activities and make them self sustained in their life. Self Sustaining Campaign has a dream of making people from poor and marginalized background self sustained and live a life of normal standard. In addition to this Self-Sustaining Campaign focuses on dignified living by making them independent of others in society. The initiation of self-Sustaining campaign through Poultry farming is to provide immediate income generational activities in the community. The modality of this initiation is to generate incentives among the community. Secondly we have designed one Chepang Child Sponsorship program to educate Chepang Children’s.

Potato Farming is our third initiation as a part of Self Sustaining campaign so as to motivate and encourage them to work for themselves in income generational activities. Self-Sustaining campaign acts a guide and shows the direction to make them self sustained.

Background

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is one of the most important crops of Nepal. It is used as a major vegetable in Terai and mid-hills and as a staple food in the high hills and mountains. Due to its potentiality and wider adaptability to grow year round in the country, its importance is ever increasing.

Potato farming in the mid-hill regions of Chitwan Districts in Chepang Community is our third project as a part of Self Sustaining Campaign. Potatoes can grow in the lower mid hills of 1000-meter altitude, which can be used as cash crops as well as food crops by Chepang people. Potato can be grown at any time given that it needs proper irrigation and organic manure. So the potato will be grown planted at the end of January

Goal

·      To provide them a platform to work and earn for themselves.

·      To empower single women’s and the women’s whose husbands cannot earn through potato cultivation.

Objectives

• To identify and solve production constraints of seed and ware potatoes through on-station and farmer’s participatory multi-location on-farm research,
• To produce high quality healthy source seed of released/recommended potato varieties,
• To establish coordination with potato stakeholders in the local market,
• Develop and strengthen linkages market and Chepang people.

Methodology

Under this project the Community people will be given 30kg Potatoes each for household to cultivate and harvest them. The profit earned after harvesting them will be kept by themselves and they will be returning 30kg potatoes to our Village coordinating committees and the Self Sustaining Campaign will be cultivating them and we will use it for administrative expenses.

On third phase Women’s in Chepang community will be empowered by providing them job opportunities. Tentatively 15 women’s who lost their husbands and whose husbands cannot earn and work in the field or who are economically backward than others will be mobilized in this potato farming. The women’s will be paid on daily wage basis as per the rules and regulations widely followed in the society.

The accountability of the potatoes harvesting will be assessed and if that is found profitable then the potato farming will be conducted in large scale in Chepang village employing the local people by using locally available resources.

SWOT ANALYSIS

Strength

·      Warm atmospheric condition that is actually required for the potato cultivation: (14-25 degree Celsius)

·      The lands are easily irrigable

Threats

·      Stony arid land

The lands will be ploughed and the stones will be removed and the compost manures of the chickens will be mixed making it fertile to cultivate potatoes in the agriculture land.

Phase 1

 Initially we will be distributing potatoes to the Chepang farmers who are interested to cultivate (20 kg each). They will grow up potatoes and they will take the profit earned and will return the 20kg potatoes that they have taken from us. We will be making memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for this.

Phase 2

Collect the potatoes 25 kg each from farmers. The returned potatoes will be collected by the program coordinator Mr. Moti Lal Chepang..

Phase 3:

Self Sustaining Campaign will be Cultivating Potatoes by empowering single women’s and womens whose husband is economically weak by providing them work on daily wage basis.

Timeline for the Potato Cultivation

Phase 1

Potato Farming / Activities

20-30 February

1-7 March

7-10 March

1-15 April

16-30 April

1-15 May

16-30 May

1-15 June

16-30 June

1-15 July

16-30 July

Remarks

Concept Development/ Planning ·      Budget Allocation ·      Call for Budgeting (Managing Director) ·      Contact National Agriculture Research Centre (NARC) 5540815 5550795 ·      Find suitable potato for cultivation in hilly area ·      Assign Village coordinating committee for the required management

Land Preparation ·      Ploughing ·      Pipe management ·      Water supply management ·      Composting

Cultivation ·      Fetch potato from the market ·      Cultivate

Monitoring/ Evaluation ·      Timely water supply ·      Compost management ·      Find market during this period ·      Take specialist if possible

Marketing ·      Sell in the market

Accounting

The estimated costs for the Potato cultivation

S.N.	PARTICULARS	Quantity	Rate	Amount	Remarks
1	Potato	400 kg		30,000
2	Transportation of Potatoes			3,000
3	Program Coordinator costs -       Recharge -       -snacks -       Go to the field -       Timely monitoring -       Evaluation -       Suggestion -			5,000
4	Miscellaneous costs			2,000
	Total			40,000