A reinforced concrete pillar-and-slab frame under construction on a village street in Nepal, standing beside older brick houses, with a pile of gravel and a woman walking past

Rebuilding

How to make a difference to a small community.

The Alain Rouveure Nepal Fund has sponsored an Earthquake Proof Community Centre in Etay Village, Kavre District, two hours from the capital, Kathmandu.

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Nepal is on a powerful geological fault.

The 2015 Earthquakes have had devastating effects on the population, in particular the poorest families in rural areas.

Many have lost their homes and land in land slides.

Unless the people can afford a costly reinforced building, there is nowhere safe for them and their children to live.

A safe building for 350 people.

This safe building is essential for the Community and will provide shelter to 350 people in emergency situations.

It will replace the ancient, presently crumbling, PATI – Pilgrims shelter, in the centre of the village, only 100 yards away from the school.

The plan is to demolish and rebuilt the shelter by doubling its size by using donated land at the back of it.

By doing this the building will sleep over 350 souls on three levels, in case of emergency.

Alain Rouveure, writing to supporters on
Architect’s rendering of the new community centre at Etay: a two-storey brick building with a wide tiled roof, carved wooden windows and an arcaded ground floor
The architect’s drawing for Etay, by Yogendra Agrahari. The new build reuses the old carved wooden windows and pillars, so it will look like the shelter it replaces.

A short film from ARNF.

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A film from the ARNF YouTube channel.

Give to the work at Etay.

Alain funds his own travel to Nepal twice a year, so what you give goes to the building and the children rather than to running the charity.

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Alain’s full account of the Etay build The village meetings, the elected community board, the three-signature bank account, and why reinforced concrete was the only method local government would pass. In his own words, published exactly as he sent it. Read the letter