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FAQ
- What is OnlyAtNepal?
- Why focus on recycling and garbage control to cut extreme poverty situation ?
- Why focus on extreme poverty?
- What does OnlyAtNepal offer?
- When and how did OnlyAtNepal start?
- How does OnlyAtNepal select its programs?
- Who funds OnlyAtNepal?
- Does OnlyAtNepal take political positions relatives to poverty issues?
- Do small projects add up to significant reduction in poverty?
- What principles guide OnlyAtNepal operations?
- When I join OnlyAtNepal, how do I benefit and what value do I add?
- What is OnlyAtNepal?
OnlyAtNepal uses the internet to empower people to take action on poverty in Nepal. OnlyAtNepal is a hub
of online activities generating positive impact in reducing poverty. This growing one-stop-site facilities
direct interface among people here in Nepal, creating Opportunities for giving, learning, and building
fruitful relationships.
OnlyAtNepal uses Information Technology to help people participate in environmental awareness and the
social issues that demand immedeate attention in Nepal. We believe that each and everyone should be a part
of the on going process of rejuvenating Nepal. Nepalese can improve their own lives and simultaneously
bring a better situation in this country in all fields. This will have a direct and a positive impact in
helping people end their poverty situation.
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- Why focus on recycling and garbage
control to cut extreme poverty situation?
Because this is the most important issues of our time. Wastage contributes to inefficient use of products;
it also contributes to pollution and garbage pile-ups and finally environmental degradation. Many families
herein the cities actually have more than enough resources for every women, man and child to live
decently. Remember all those clothes, books, and other materials things you have gathered in your home?
They only take up space and they do nothing but sit here and is non productive. It is true that everything
in life has a "Birth to death" life span. Your old pair of shoes which is meant to last from 7
years to 10 years is being either stashed away in your house or is thrown as garbage, and you do it in 2
year that product which has used up so much material, time recourses still can be used by some one for the
next 6 to 9 years. Why not give it away, or even sell at a fair price? Some of our Nepalese families would
welcome them and would save them hard earned money. TOP
- Why focus on extreme poverty?
Because this is another of one of the most important issues of our time. Our human family actually has more
than enough resources for every woman, man and child to live decently. Yet an astounding 90% of us make
less than US$ 1 a day, nearly 20 million people in Nepal cannot read and write, and 85% lack access to
sanitation. This contrasting situation makes acting on extreme poverty a moral imperative. Where there is
poverty, there is erosion of human rights, environmental health deteriorates, the burden of over
population becomes heavier, and human dignity suffers. Because poverty is also closely linked to many
other problems, we as a Nepalese Society bear the responsibility to put our ingenuity, technology, and
hearts to work in breaking its cycle. We begin breaking this cycle asserting that poverty does not have to
continue from generation to generation, and by creating new opportunities in which even the poorest thrive
and overcome entrenched conditions. Every time a person or family or community breaks the cycle of poverty
of positive change takes place in a village, city, country and region-the whole world. This is how social
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- What does OnlyAtNepal offer?
OnlyAtNepal offers its activities through a dynamic platform of "eAction." We have selected
these activities "Re-cycling and Garbage Control" based on user surveys and other research in order
to present a wide range of choices that match varying user interests, skill, financial resources, and time
availability. We remain mindful of the balance between awareness and action, assuring plenty of opportunity for
online learning. As you see from our site, you are encouraged to use OnlyAtNepal website to make a tangible
difference in the lives of individuals and communities you support. Our online volunteering will grow to include
onsite opportunities, enhancing choices for sharing and learning OnlyAtNepal also will create an expanded news and
education section, extend the current message for dialogue and action, and build up our directory of local
non-profits in Nepal that are working on various aspects of poverty in their communities. OnlyAtNepal is committed
to offering the richest possible platform of constructive action to mobilize a large online constituency for
social change. We aspire to make the internet a major catalyst for extreme poverty in Nepal.
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- When and how did OnlyAtNepal start?
The seeds for OnlyAtNepal were planted in the ground of a powerful vision; that the people living in Nepal
or visiting it can use the internet to change the way people in Nepal can connect with one another and
take effective action to reduce the cycle of extreme poverty. We began by believing that there was another
way out of our pressing present deadlock. We also believed that there must be a simple way to help others
and ourselves in achieving this with out the red tape jungle of the government processing system. As we
looked around our own lives, we saw that there was so much that we had outgrown and do not need cluttering
up our living space. Putting the same formula together and asking people we met, we discovered that this
was a common situation for many in the capital and elsewhere.
Why not recycle and pass down the things we don't need to someone else who does not have the resources to
acquire these essentials. Then we realize this would reduce garbage accumulation by more than 60%.
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- How does OnlyAtNepal select its programs?
OnlyAtNepal carefully screens the programs featured on its website for direct supported by internet users.
We bring these programs to you in partnership with other organizations with relevant expertise and reach.
In selecting OnlyAtNepal programs, we pay special attention to the following factors.
- The program is innovative in its approach to addressing poverty, we want to support
"Good development" development that empowers and creates opportunities without adversely
affecting important elements such as the environment, women's participation and cultural
integrity. Good development provides a direct link to breaking a cycle of extreme poverty.
- The program stresses and has proven ability to strengthen the capacity of a local
organizations in Nepal a key to result and sustainability.
- The program has clear objectives with measurable results in a given time frame.
- The program is collaborative and can work with a variety of organizations and coalitions.
- The program partners are able and willing to connect with our online community and to report
progress on the internet.
- The program adds to the diversity of geographic regions and issues through which we can learn
about and act on the many faces of poverty.
- The program captures the imagination of the media and public, thus leveraging increased
attention and resources that increase opportunities for people living in poverty.
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- Who funds OnlyAtNepal?
Funds for OnlyAtNepal operations (program and technology development, marketing and alliance-building)
come from a few individual with an idea that "Enough is Enough" and that we can do something
from what we have.
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Does OnlyAtNepal take political positions relatives to poverty issues?
No. of course, in some social contexts, working actively to provide opportunities for the benefit of
marginalized people may be seen as a political act. However OnlyAtNepal does not initiate or participate
in political campaigns or advocacy projects that take sides in contentious situations. Our goal is to
be " intelligently impartial." We are intent on bringing balanced news and information to our
internet community, encouraging dialogue and creative thinking, and exposing you-the OnlyAtNepal user-to a
variety of viewpoints perspectives, and program options. You choose what to support.
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Do small projects add up to significant reduction in poverty?
Yes, small-even tiny - but well-designed projects that the critical elements of good development can go
long way in reducing poverty. These critical elements include equal access to resources and opportunities,
community participation, environmental preservation, women's empowerment, local capacity building and
sound fiscal management. In many cases, small projects improve the living conditions of not only the
people directly affected, but also those of other communities that may replicate the lessons learned and
success achieved. Often, if projects are designed in the context of regional and national development
plans the impact of small initiatives.
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What principles guide OnlyAtNepal operations?
OnlyAtNepal's board staff, and partners come together around six principles that bind in thought and action.
- Commitment to human development: Human development is about creating opportunities so
that individual and community strength can thrive.
- Result orientation: We seek measurable, concrete, and effective outcomes from
individual and group efforts, whether in anti-poverty projects or public education campaigns.
- Collaboration: We believe that building alliances among partners willing to enhance one
another's resources adds for greater value than competition.
- User privacy and safety: We do everything in our power to safeguard the personal and
financial information of onlyatnepal.com.np users.
- User Convenience and Choice: Through the internet, we offer simple ways for people to
make a visible difference. People can direct their involvement where and when they choose.
- TEA (transparency, efficiency, accountability): We explain our practices openly,
utilize resources wisely, are open to scrutiny, and share what doesn't work as well ads what does.
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When I join OnlyAtNepal, how do I benefit and what value do I add?
At present joining OnlyAtNepal means.. participation by awareness. We ask you and your friends
to "eActively" look into this site and go that extra foot to make the re-cycling
program effective. And it is FREE after all. You will be contacted by reliable agencies and they
will get your contribution to where it needs to go. Here you can engage in new ways with
like-minded people and voice your perspectives on issues that matter.
Your participation adds value to OnlyAtNepal in specific ways:
- When you respond to the site, you help pour programs and website become more
responsive, effective, and user-friendly.
- Through the Hot Box, you inspire others to join donate, volunteer, or get involved.
- Being on the OnlyAtNepal list increases our power of community because there is
strength in numbers ---- media and decision- makers will pay more attention.
When you log into www.onlyatnepal.com.np you are saying that reducing poverty in
Nepal is an important issue and that you will do your part - no matter how small or large. In
the online words of one onlyatnepal.com.np's supporter, " this is a small planet. What goes
on in other of it will touch us, the sane as what we do, or don't do , touches other."
What we do is give an opportunity to each individual to be an of giving, sharing, and reducing
poverty.
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