Only 2 weeks to go until the Team from Bingley Airedale Rotary Club (BARC) depart for Nepal. Four members of the club (Terry Brown, Mike Bamford, David Dinsey and President John Hagerty) will be travelling from UK to Nepal to install a Computer Suite at Daraun Secondary School in the Syangja region of Nepal.

We are travelling on 14th February to Kathmandu and onwards to Pokhara on 18th. The following day a journey by jeep and then a 90 minute walk in the foothills to 5500 feet bring us to Daraun village and school which will be our base for the next 7 days. Whilst there we will set up the computer suite and provide training to the teachers. In addition, we will walk ( 2 hours in each direction) to 2 existing schools where Harrogate Brigantes have previously installed computers to audit the schools. On another day we will travel by jeep to survey 2 further schools to consider their suitability for extending the project to them at a future date.

On 27th February we will return to Pokhara where we will meet with the Rotary Club of Pokhara Fishtail with whom we have a long association. Whilst there we travel to Majhkot Village and Secondary School to inaugurate the water project we have funded and we will meet pupils and staff from Lo Kumphen school in Mustang at their winter school in Pokhara. BARC funded students at the school following a trip to Nepal by Mike Bamford. Lastly we will visit recipients of the Micro Loan scheme we have initiated with Pokhara Fishtail.

Saturday 2nd March sees the team travel back to Kathmandu before returning to UK.