• Tewa gave an orientation/briefing on 18 December, 1997 to 14 students of the Josai International University of Japan. The student exchange programme was led by Professors Yasuko Wachi and Le Thanh Nghiep.

• Rita Thapa visited and spoke about Tewa to the Nepali Association in Los Angeles and San Francisco in California; and Phoenix in Arizona where respectively, Bijay Niraula and Pushpa Tulachan; Shekhar& Shova Sharma, Rameshwar Adhikari and Indira Singh co-ordinated/hosted the programme where much interest was generated for Tewa.

• Bijay Niraula and Bhushan Pradhan of Los Angeles; Indira Singh of Gallup, New Mexico; and Meera Kansakar presently in Seattle/Washington have agreed to be Volunteer Coordinator of Tewa. Thankyou!

• The Hidden Treasure Talent Competion for selection of Ms. Nepal for the Ms. World 1997 competition, was held on the 18 July in Soaltee Hotel. Since The Hidden Treasure was going to make a donation from this event to Tewa, the Tewa Team collaborated and participated in the event. Tewa was a happy receiver of a cheque of Rs.100,000 which Rita received from the President of The Hidden Treasure, Mr. Suresh Bdr. Malla at the Miss World Nepal contest on 1st August at the Birendra Convention Centre.

• Rita made a presentation on Tewa and solicited support to/from a group of eminent Rotarians of the Rotary Club of Kathmandu North on 20 July 1997.

• Rita & Meera Jyoti made a presentation to the Rotary Club of Patan - Lalitpur on 23 August 1997

• In 1997, Tewa held 6 networking meeting for introducing Tewa’s philosophy and soliciting support where 39 persons from all walks of lives participated.

You raised Rs. 1,22,693.00 for us during this year and introduced Tewa to much larger community. Thank you all Fund-raising Volunteers!

Amita Adhikari • Anita Upreti • Aruna Thapa • Bhadra Thapa • Bhumikala Poudel • Bidya Upreti • Bijaya Ghimere • Binaya Sharma • Devina Malla • Gauri Khadka • Indira Ghosh • Indira Khapung • Jyoti Nakarmi • Kamala Pradhan • Kumari Niraula • Laxmi Shrestha • Leena Rupakheti • Manju Sharma • Manju Thapa • Pranita Rimal • Pratima Kakchyapati • Rajendra Rimal • Rama Shrestha • Renu Wagley • Sabitri Shrestha • Sarala Malla • Saroj K. C. • Shanti Pandey • Shova Sakya • Subhadra Pradhan • Subra Acharya • Usha Shrestha • Yashoda Timilsina

Supporters of Tewa

Individual donors

Aishwaryaman Shrestha • Akal Tuladhar • Akrur N. Rana • Anju Tamrakar • Anup K. Pahari & Lily Thapa • Anusuya Puri • Arjun N. Rana • Armila Shakya • Arun D. Adhikari • Arzu Deuba • Ashok Chhettri • Atup, Anul and Amul • B. K. Shrestha • Bach • Bandana Rana • Basanti K. C. • Beena Jyoti • Beena Panta • Bhadra Rana • Bhadra Thapa • Bhagirath N. Rana • Bhairaja Bajracharya • Bharat Rajbhandari • Bhawana Gewali • Bhima Chapagain • Bhusan Tuladhar • Bhuvaneshwari Satyal • Bihari Krishna Shrestha • Bijaya Bahadur Shrestha • Bijaya K.C. • Bijaya Shrestha • Bina Amatya • Binod Bahadur Shrestha • Binod Krishna Shrestha • Chandi Chapagain • Chandra Thapa • Chhaya Jha • Chiranjibi Lal. Agarwal • Deo Dixit • Devina Malla • Dhurba Thapa • Dibyashree Khand • Draupadi Rokaya • Ganesh Bhakta Saakha • Gauri Thapa • Gautam Das Shrestha • Geeta Rana • Geeta Rana • Gita Archarya • Gopal L. Kakshyapati • Gopal Thapa • Greta Rana • Gyan J. Thapa • Hari Bivor Karki • Indira Amatya • Indira Malla • Indira Pathak • Indira Rana • Indu Acharya • Indu Tuladhar • Jasmine Rajbhandari • Jawahar Devi Shrestha • Jawahar L. Shreshtha • Jaya Laxmi Shrestha • Jaya Shrestha • K. B. Rokaya • K. B. Subba • Kaji Man Bhandari • Kamal Kesari Tuladhar • Kamal Khadka • Kamala Bhattrai • Kamala Shrestha • Kanchan Rana • Karna D. Adhikari • Keshar & Eva Joshi • Krishna Mathema & Jinnu Shrestha • Kunda Dixit • Kusum Saakha • Lalita Thapa • Lamu Sherpa • Lata Suwal • Laxmi B. Shrestha • Laxmi Shrestha • Madeena Shrestha • Madhulika Puri • Madhuri Singh • Maggie Shah • Mahendra Bhakta Shrestha • Mahesh Shrestha • Mala Joo • Mallika Aryal • Mandira Tamrakar • Manish Khadka • Manoj Sharma • Meena Tuladhar • Meera Aryal • Milan Dixit • Mohan Devi Shrestha • Mohini Maharjan • Muktinath Pokhrel • Mukunda Shrestha • N. M. Pradhan • Nabinana Shrestha • Narayan S. Thapa • Narbada Pokhrel • Neera Rana • Nirmala Tuladhar • Nita Pokhrel • Padam & Urmila Shrestha • Padam Jyoti & Meera Jyoti • Parmeshwari Shrestha • Parmeshwori Shrestha • Pavitra K. Karki • Prachanda B. Shrestha • Pradeep Shrestha • Prakash Singh Adhikari • Pramada Shah • Prativa Thapa • Praveen Chitrakar • Prithivi Bahadur Pandey • Prithu N. Rana • Purna K. Thapa • Purna Sthapit • Pushpa Dewan • Pushpa Shrestha • Rabin Khadka • Radesh Pant • Ragabesh Aryal • Raj Kaji Shakya • Rajat Rana • Rajendra B. Shrestha • Rajendra bhattarai • Rajyalaxmi Thapa • Rama Baral • Rama Pandey • Rama Shrestha • Ranjan Shah • Ravi Shrestha • Rebati Raman Pokhrel • Renu Khatri • Renu Rajbhandari • Renu Thapa • Renu Wagley • Rita Bhandari • Ritu Vaidya • Rohit Bdr. Thapa • Rupa Joshi • Sabita Aryal • Sabita Shrestha • Sabitri Gurung • Sabitri Shrestha • Sabitri Shrestha • Sagar Man Shrestha • Sailesh Bhandari • Sandeep • Sangita Gewali • Sangita Rayamajhi • Sanjay Rajbhandari • Sanjay Shrestha • Sapta Shakya • Sarada Khati • Saraswati Shrestha • Sarita Thapa • Sashi Pokhrel • Satish Agrawal • Satya D. Adhikari • Shailendra D. Shrestha • Shanker Raj Pathak • Shanta Dixit • Shanti Shah • Sharmila Karki • Shiva Ratnam Sarda • Shova Pokhrel • Siddhi Raj Shakya • Sita Ram Prasain • Sneha Shrestha • Sophee Upadhyay • Sriyukta B. C. • Subir Shrestha • Subra Acharya • Suddha. S. Rauniyar • Sudha Sharma • Suhrid Jyoti • Suman Basnet • Sundar Joshi • Sur Bdr. Shrestha • Surendra Sahi • Surendra Shakya • Suruchi Jyoti • Swarneem Rai • Trilok Agrawal • Trina Talukdhar • Umesh B. Malla • Urgen Sherpa • Usha Dugar • Utam Das Shresrha • Victory Shrestha • Vijay, Sushma & Sarah Pandey • Vijaya Laxmi Shrestha • Y. P. Panth • Yankila Sherpa • Yogendra Man Pradhan

Foreign Donors

Anne Firth Murray • Anne Herrewig • Arlene Mclaughlin • Barbara A. Ferris • Barbara Ann Gibbons • Bengt & Emmy Ageros • Betty Wilkinson • Claire Burkert • Abraham S. David • Dawn Mclean • Elaine James • Esther Hewlett • Etsuko Yamaguchi • Fawzia Khondker • Gayle Hausknecht • Iris Peterson • Joseph Sebastian • Judy Sturgis • Julie Shaw • Kamala Bhasin • Laila Arzu Mand Banu • Lema Andrews- Hirano • Lucinda B. Ewing & Lucia P. Ticzon • Mabel S. Weil • Marie Auger Andrews • Marji Greenhut • Marta Drury • Mira Husnara Ahmed • Nancy Russell • Patricia W. Chang • Robin L. Jackson • Ruth Tamaroff & Michael ‘O’ Hara • Shabnam Rashid • Shriyani Perena Karunsa Sekara • Susanne Jalbert • Taslima Akhter • Tom L. Arens • Twila Conord • Vibeke Cramer • Wendy Heraghty • Wung Wei Kee • Zulfika Dampuwle

Institutional Donors

Business Corporates

AAMA Network Inc. • Bromed • Crystal Woolen Industries • Gahana Palace • Hidden Treasure • Hotel Narayani • Hurdec • Kamdhenu Saree Showroom • Kanti Iswari Teachers Group • Kid’s World International • Lady Namuna • Maheshwori Ladies • OBC International • Prakash Store • Rice & Bowl Restaurant

Foundations

Compton Foundation • Vanguard Public Foundation

 Non-profit Organizations

American Women Organization Nepal • Kamdhenu Sangh • Pavitra Pariwar Club • Rural Reconstruction Nepal • SAARC Secretariat Women’s Association • Sai Sewa Nidhi • Sap Nepal

Memorial Fund

I. B. Thapa Memorial Fund

Operational Grant

Caritas, a fund of Tides Foundation • Threshold Foundation

HRD Grant

Redd Barna / Nepal • The Global Fund for Women

There are many people who attempt to solve problems by analyzing the causes. It does not take very long to realize that the causes are so mammoth that the person’s ability and resources are not sufficient to solve the problem. So they give up........ Ke garne? Others have a clear vision of what they seek, a clear picture of what they want, and then start with what they have... There is no stopping this group.

Tewa has a clear vision for what it seeks for society as a whole, and women in particular. Tewa is aware of its limitations. It has a leadership that has the courage to move ahead. The best part of Tewa is that its future depends only on those whom it hopes to support. All these are ingredients for success. I am proud to be part of Tewa.

Being an advisor to Tewa has been a great privilege and honour for me. I feel Tewa personifies the giving and nurturing power of women embodied by motherhood.

Tewa has blessed a path in Nepal’s modern history of philanthropy by nurturing the power of Nepalis to share and care for the weaker segments of their own society.

 "Tewa responds to three fundamental needs in Nepal. The first is the return to self-support. Donors have unwittingly done quite a bit of damage by funding programs in full, in the mistaken illusion that the local resources don’t exist. In this way, a long history of local contribution and joint use of resources has almost been lost. Tewa, by looking for local funding for its activities, demonstrates the opposite — that in fact, Nepalis have funds and will use them to benefit those less well-off in their own society.

Second, most of the poverty programs have been government and donor-led. It’s nice to see the emergence of a locally-owned, independent group, and the return of local volunteerism in a new form.

Third, Tewa responds to very small, local initiatives. As a senior Nepali leader said to me recently, "unless some smaller donor decides to take a risk, local organizations have no chance to grow." Tewa continually takes those risks.

I am proud to be a part of this, however small." and wish Tewa and its supporters all the best for 1998.

Tewa is doing good work, keep it up!

About Tewa

Tewa is infant, if we count the years from the date of birth

Tewa is mature if we observe the activities it has conducted

Tewa is determined in internal resource mobilization

Tewa is supportive of local NGO’s and self-help groups

Tewa is accountable to all stakeholders

Tewa is committed to empower disadvantaged women

Tewa is lucky having dedicated board members & committed staff

I feel honoured being an advisor of Tewa

Come be A Volunteer!

In our busy lives from day to day

We face challenges of joy and sorrow

Have we time to pause along the way

To brighten someone’s dark tomorrow?

To give in thought and kind, to share

Our time and take a stand!

Guide those in need with loving care,

Extend a helping hand?

Empower others, with strength bestow

To carry on the fight-

Together we can win, we know.

From Darkness turn to Light.

We need to find a genuine Friend

To help us banish doubt and fear,

Our problems, sorrows we shall end-

Come be a Volunteer!

Help our NEPALI sisters if you care

Remember Tewa is always there.....

Tewa: Challenges Ahead - A Thought

As a local philanthropic organization, Tewa deserves congratulations for the accomplishment of its first phase of program as per its objectives. Tewa has been able to build up its image among Nepalese donors and in the society in general. This accomplishment in the beginning is encouraging but Tewa still has to go a long way to fulfill its goals.

Our main concern in the second phase should be to maintain credibility and sustainability. To do this, we have to ensure the grantee’s credibility as well as the grantor’s confidence. We have to start the process of evaluating the performance of the organizations that receive Tewa’s support. Reports should be produced and disseminated. This would certainly help our donors to acquire information about how their money is being utilized to support rural women’s groups.

Moreover, it would be ideal if we can initiate a multiplier effect by requesting the grantees, for their support either in cash, or expertise. Tewa could use this support to help other needy women’s groups thus broadening and expanding their "tewa".

"Nepal needs to think seriously in terms of getting away from its dependency syndrome. There are quite a few examples that show that with appropriate initiatives the concept of self-reliance can be meaningfully put to action. Tewa in its short existence is an evidence to that effect. Even in the midst of poverty and undevelopment, people who can afford to contribute, can be encouraged to respond to the responsibility they have towards society. It is the process, not the amount of money given, which becomes important in enhancing the culture of self-empowerment and self-reliance. What is being sought here is a way of proceeding towards a society which enables one to become independent through inter-dependence. Organizations like Tewa can make a difference."

STAFF PAGE

• Sabita Aryal Volunteer Staff, Joined Tewa: September 1996, Interest: Reading, Travelling & Social Work

• Lily Thapa Volunteer Staff, Joined Tewa: November 1996, Interest: Social Service

• Deepak Dewan Programme Manager (Grants making), Joined Tewa: October 1996, Interest: Meeting people, reading

• Rita Thapa Coordinator(Volunteer), Joined Tewa: Rita initiated Tewa shortly after WCW/Beijing 1995, Interest: Women and Development Issues
• Rabi R. Chitrakar Programme Manager (Fund-raising), Joined Tewa: November 1996, Interest: Travel &Trekking

• Kajiman Bhandari Messenger/Night Guard, Joined Tewa: July 1996, Interest: Travel & work

• Maiya Deula Cleaner, Joined Tewa: July 1996, Interest: work....work...work....!

• Bimala Chapagain Administration & Finance Officer, Joined Tewa: August 1997, Interest: Innovative Management

• Sharmita Gurung Administrative Assistant, Joined Tewa: September 1997, Interest: Travel & Social Work

• Romy Shrestha Volunteer , Joined Tewa: September 15, 1997, Interest: Reading, Travelling & Social Work

• Bimala Chapagain joined as Admin/Finance Officer from 1st August, 1997

• Sabita Aryal now works with Tewa in the capacity of a Volunteer Staff from 1st September, 1997

• Sharmita Gurung joined as an Admin. Assistant from 1st September, 1997

• Krishna Byanjankar left Tewa after completion of one year of service - he was given a warm send-off. He has offered Tewa his continued support.

• Kajiman Bhandari, the Watchman has also taken up the job of Tewa Messenger since 1st November 1997.

• Romy Shrestha, a student has been working as a volunteer since 15th September, 1997

If you need more ideas, use your imagination", little five year old Kristyn Hall said. That is exactly what Trudy Fowler and Susanne Jalbert did. They combined their talents and products to create a fabulous holiday event in the very heart of Denver.

On Saturday, December 6, 1997 an open house event was held at the home of Tewa supporter, Trudy Fowler. Trudy Fowler is a well known Colorado potter who creates beautiful earthy-toned, practical, functional tableware. This was her 17th annual home exhibition and sale. Co-hosting the event was another TEWA cheerleader, Susanne Jalbert, who introduced new Dhaka Weave’s textiles that just arrived from Kathmandu. The exquisite new products, including scarves, placemats, napkins, shawls and other items were sent especially to sell at this event.

With the Fowler home decked in holiday decorations of holly, garlands and gorgeous poinsettias, it was a festive occasion. This event was the second annual activity that Fowler and Jalbert cooperated combining pottery and textiles. Over sixty people attended the event. Tremendous excitement was generated by the new designs and colors of the Dhaka Weave’s textiles. Sales were brisk.. Jalbert and Fowler were able to raise about $1,500 which will be donated to Tewa via the Global Fund for Women in Palo Alto, California. What a marvelous way to end our fund-raising year here in the U.S.— with holiday cheer and support for Tewa.