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JULY NEWSLETTER - July 2004
GENERAL
Welcome to all the new members who have joined over the last few
weeks. We hope you will enjoy the social interaction and
participate in some of the various activities that we have
throughout the year.
With the change of
Committee this year, we have got a new POSTAL BOX and contact
details. The new PO box is GPO BOX 1003 Adelaide 5001.
The Chairman Daya Pankaj has his contact number on the
letterhead above and the Secretary Angela Stebbing has a
contact email.
PLEASE let the
secretary know if you have an email address that we can
add to our contact list. It means we can save money on postage &
get messages out much quicker in relation to news & reminders
for functions etc.
If your mailing
address/name is incorrect (spelling included) then please send a
letter or an email to the secretary at the address’s above.
SOCIAL NEWS
The BBQ at the
Paradise Primary on Sunday July 11th was
a great success and despite some rainy weather, we had a great
turnout and lots of singing and dancing.
Our next function will
be for the Nepalese festival Dasain in October. We will keep you
updated & hopefully see you there.
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Congratulations to
Sagarmatha Nepali Restaurant and Namaste Nepalese Restaurant for
becoming Finalists in the SA Restaurant & Catering Awards held
recently. Along with The Himalayan Kitchen, you have 3
restaurants in Adelaide where you can try quality Nepalese food.
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FAREWELL to Gyanendra
Bajrachayra and his wife Laxmi who are returning to Nepal on 1st August
2004. They will be missed by many of us here. As Gyanendra is
currently on the NAFA Committee, he will continue to be our
Nepali correspondent and we look forward to sharing news with
him.
NAFA COMMITTEE NEWS
We have recently
joined the Multicultural Communities Council of SA and this
provides us with some benefits such as the use of their Hall
in Gilbert St in the city for a nominal fee.
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The Ethnic Schools
Board is a government organisation that provides grants and
allows Cultural groups to use public school facilities to
hold lessons in their National language. If you would like
to know more about NEPALI Lessons for CHILDREN, then
please contact Daya Pankaj (8276 3853)
We are looking at
starting them in the New Year and will need volunteers and
names of any interested parents. With our growing Nepalese
community, and increasing mixed marriages we want to be able
to offer the children of Nepalese parent/s the opportunity
to learn their mother tongue and to keep the language alive.
If you would like to share any news
with the Nepalese community, please contact the secretary on
this
email address:
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19th
October 2003
We wish you all living at home and
abroad a very happy TIHAR. My Goddess Laxmi bring peace and
prosperity to us all.
If you
are in Adelaide, Australia, you are invited to celebrate TIHAR at
Sagarmatha Nepali Restaurant. Please give us a call at
8363 6291 or 83623197.
Date:
26th October 2003
See
you there!
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30th September 2003
NAFA wishes everyone a happy Dashain (2003)
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NAFA Newsletter July 2003
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General News:
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-NAFA
is now listed on White & Yellow Pages online and will be in the
new issues of the books this year. We are listed under the heading
“Organisations- Cultural & Educational” with Deepak’s home phone number
and the address at 62 Payneham Rd Stepney.
-Lance & Patricia Fairclough
have returned from their
recent visit to Nepal with some interesting stories to share. They
delivered US $412 to the Dhruba Tara School while they were there.
-The final draft for a NAFA
pamphlet is almost ready and we look forward to seeing the completed
document very soon. Thanks go to Anne Sanders, Lance Fairclough & John
Mellowship for their work on this project.
-From Radio National’s “Asia Pacific” 7.6.03
Nepal hopes to close camps for refugees from Bhutan
in the next few months. Bhutan is well on its way to establishing a
constitutional monarchy. Encouraged by the King, Bhutan has the
structure in place for the introduction of a democratic system in the
very near future.
-News snippets: The media in Australia gives little
news of Nepal. If you come across interesting articles in newspapers,
magazines, on TV, radio, the internet or from personal contacts, then
please share them for our newsletters or the notice board we put up at
meetings.
Social News:
Welcome to Sunita Rajbahak
Once again this year the
Blackwood Rotary Club is sponsoring a Nepali teacher on a three-month
visit to Adelaide to study SA education at Aberfoyle Hub Primary School.
Sunita Rajbahak arrived a short time ago and various Rotary families are
hosting her during her stay.
In early August she will
be staying at the home of Carlene Nillsen for a week & will visit Belair
Schools & spend most of the time in Carlene’s Year 6/7 classroom.
She will be observing
regular classroom teaching and organisation, extra-curricular
activities, language learning, non-instructional time provision, staff
meetings, and all the general day-to-day workings of an Australian
school.
In Nepal Sunita is a
teacher at Suryodaya Secondary School, Dillibazar, Kathmandu. (Bhawani,
who came out under the same Rotary scheme last year, teaches at the same
school.)
We hope you will join us
in welcoming Sunita
On Sunday July 13th
Where
27 Hart Ave Unley 5061
(Carlene’s home)
Time 1pm
Please bring a plate and
enjoy a social gathering with NAFA members and friends.
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