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Namlo Welcomes Our New Executive Director, Laura Welland As the president of the Namlo Board of Directors, I am pleased to notify the Namlo community of some exciting news. Our current Executive Director, Lorena Garcia, has decided to leave us to run for political oďŹƒce. We are happy for her, and appreciative of the work she has done for us. We are delighted that one of our board members is stepping up to become our new Executive Director. Laura Welland has more than a 10-year history with both Namlo and Nepal working towards sustainable development. Knowing Laura personally and having worked with her, I feel very confident that she will lead us into new and exciting ventures.

We look forward to the new year and our exciting new partnerships with Laura, the people we serve, and all of you in our Namlo community!

Consider making an end of year gift to help Namlo start strong with Laura in 2019.

-Pete Tierney Namlo International Board of Directors President

Ms. Welland graduated cum laude from Miami University in 1980 with a BS

Miami University in 1980 with a BS in Electromechanical Engineering. She was an engineer in the consumer goods and medical device industry for 17 years, after which she began working on various projects in Nepal. She has been to Nepal dozens of times since 2006, working in diverse fields such as economic opportunity, women’s rights, organic waste disposal, and water supply. Her various roles include project director, business advisor, professional mentor, safety officer, and project engineer for multiple organizations including CARE Nepal, Engineers Without Borders, Organic Village, Room To Read and Namlo Nepal/Namlo International. Ms. Welland lives in Seattle with her two children and is also a professional jazz musician.

Laura (left) and Lorena (right) after a long day of leadership transition planning. Both women are looking to 2019 with great excitement!

Namlo Builds Partnerships to Bring Water to the People of Dhuskun

Long-term sustainable development in Nepal will best come from many people working together with a common goal. It requires collaboration from multiple sectors like local government, the private sector, universities, and businesses working together to truly make a project successful. We take that knowledge to heart, and in Dhuskun, one of our engaged communities, Namlo has built partnerships with Engineers Without Borders-Karlsruhe (Germany) and the local government Village Development Committee to ensure that the clean water project is implemented in a collaborative effort. Of utmost importance is that the community members will be trained to pay for and maintain their own system in the future, empowering them to be self-sufficient for generations to come.

The local Nepal government has committed $10,000 to purchase materials and oversee the build of the pipeline that will carry water from the new water source to the village of Dhuskun. The pipeline, designed by EWB-Karlsruhe, will be over 3 miles long and will take 4 – 5 months to construct and test. Namlo engineers in Nepal will be on-site to ensure that the build is up to world standards for quality.

Later this spring, EWB-Karlsruhe will travel to Dhuskun to inspect the pipeline build and to begin building the infrastructure around the new source of water.

Our office in Nepal will assist them with all logistics as well as translation, developing the Water User’s Committee, and negotiating the contributions (labor and monetary) of the community. The Water User's Committee will eventually be responsible for the ongoing maintenance of the entire water system.

Collaborative partnerships bring together a mix of strategic partners from different sectors, while adapting to the local realities. Different stakeholders find ways of working with each other that create true sustainable impact and value.

Namlo is very happy to be bringing together so many contributors to this important project.

Namlo's Third School Brings Jobs to Jalpa.

Since the earthquakes of 2015, which destroyed over 26,000 classrooms, the people of Nepal have faced tremendous challenges, yet true to their culture have found many ways to turn disaster into opportunity. We have seen this firsthand in the communities we partner with. In Jalpa, community members have spent a total of 2,180 hours so far on building the school commissioned

by Namlo, which has created over 35 local jobs.

We believe that buy-in from the community is essential to the sustainability of each project.

It’s crucial that we help rebuild the physical infrastructure during this time, while keeping in our sights the long term goals. We have witnessed young students of Nepal thrive with the opportunities that a quality education affords them, and are excited that the Jalpa students will soon be among them with improved educational infrastructure. Providing the support to build an earthquake-safe building to learn in is the necessary first step in leading to those future opportunities.

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