Major Supporters
Nepcam is very grateful to the following corporate donors who have provided assistance to our organisation over the last 12 months
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Lilianfels Blue Mountains Resort
.jpg) Lilianfels Blue Mountains Resort & Spa is a renowned haven of relaxation in one of Australia's most beautiful destinations. The five star hotel is housed in a historic country mansion set admidst two acres of manicured gardens.
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.jpg) Tetsuya’s cuisine is unique, based on the Japanese philosophy of natural seasonal flavours, enhanced by classic French technique
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 We specialise in portraiture, ranging from pregnancy, new-born babies, toddlers, children and families
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 Circular Quay Accommodation ideal for overnight stays or long term accommodation for the whole family.
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 Orso Bayside Restaurant is absolutely waterfront and superbly positioned on Sydney’s Middle Harbour adjacent to the Spit Bridge
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.jpg) Kable's Restaurant offers a relaxed and vibrant atmosphere. It enjoys a substantial reputation, in a city known for its exciting dining.
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 Serving the Blue Mountains and Penrith area for over 30 years.
We work with you to meet your business insurance needs.
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 The 'Terrace on Pittwater' modern australian dining restaurant is ideally located on the shores of picturesque Pittwater, Sydney with breathtaking water views to Bayview & Ku-Ring-Gai National Park
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 Nip down Erskineville Road to discover a little ode to India, as the name suggests. Within the elegant room, smart and authentic Indian cuisine is served.
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Balloon Elegance
 Specialists in the balloon decorating arena who create unique and stunning decor that gives your events and special occasions that WOW factor.
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 Banjo Paterson Cottage Restaurant operates from a beautiful sandstone building dating back to the 1830's. Classified by the National Trust, "Rockend" is where A.B.'Banjo' Paterson lived as a young man with his grandmother.
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 At Mustang Nepalese restaurant, we bring you the most out of Nepalese cookery by serving dishes that let out a tantalizing and aromatic feel to every meal
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 L'Incontro Italian Restaurant located in the heart of North Sydney, specialises in Italian and seafood cuisine.
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 Officeworks is Australia's largest supplier of office and stationery products catering for all your work, home and school needs.
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 The Northern Beaches Social Riders are a group of like minded people from different backgrounds and walks of life whose passion is riding Motorcycles, attending family involved events and fundraising for children’s charities.
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 Established in 1979 on Sydney's Newport Beach, Lucky's & Pep's quickly became a social hub for the local community, a cosy and inviting environment where families and friends gathered for a pizza and a chat.
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 "Best quality, healthy, freshly cooked" is my slogan to provide all products to suit customers needs.
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Harbord Beach Hotel
 Known locally as the Harbord Hilton, the wine food and service at the Hotel is certainly 5 star.
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Berkelouw Books
(Mona Vale)
 Berkelouw Books is Australia’s largest and longest established new, secondhand and rare bookseller. For six generations, the Berkelouw family has traded in books.
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Pashom
 At PASHOM, our aim is to provide our customers with a unique range of beautiful, quality handcrafted products, whilst supporting and contributing to the sustainability of small Fair Trade cottage craft industries in Nepal
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Would your corporation like to help NEPCAM? If so, please contact
Peter Culligan
0418 618 527
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Also, many thanks to the following corporations who have donated their resources or time for the benefit of our children in Nepal and Cambodia
Foreshore Engineering
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Please read on if.....
You or your company would like to make a contribution to Nepcam's
Community Projects
Donations to Nepcam are made available to indigenous families in Nepal who are struggling to feed their children
Donors to Nepcam's Community Projects receive a Nepcam Trust Aid Fund receipt and an Appreciation Certificate
Donations of any amount are gratefully accepted!
All donations are fully tax deductible!
How can I make a donation?
Donations can be made by either:
Bank transfer to:
Nepcam Trust Aid Fund, ANZ Bank, BSB 012-349 A/C 487031895.
or
Cheque or money order:
Please make cheques payable to "Nepcam Trust Aid Fund" and mail to the Chief Finance Officer, 1 St Andrews Close, Belrose, 2085.
How can I contact Nepcam?
You can contact Nepcam in Australia by sending us an email at enquiries@nepcam.org.au
Nepcam's Objectives and Procedures for Aiding Communities in Nepal
The overriding goal for Nepcam is to improve the socio-economic environment in poor Nepali communities through establishment of locally-based micro economic development projects (MEDP). This has proven over many years to be a most successful strategy in developing countries to provide opportunity for the indigenous people to gain the knowledge needed to establish and to successfully sustain micro economic initiatives.
Nepcam's Objectives
- Enable families to help themselves to have enough to eat.
- Enable families to help themselves toward safety and security.
- Enable families to educate their children and realise their potential future.
- Develop a culture of saving.
- Support enterprises with the aim of sustainable development.
- Improve the general livelihood of the communities.
Nepcam's Policies
- Nepcam serves local communities without any distinction on race, religion, political persuasions or caste.
- Nepcam does not engage in missionary work or evangelism or political activities.
- Nepcam does not engage in welfare. It does engage in relief work.
Examples of Nepcam's Aid Funding
For example, as at 1 July 2009, Nepcam’s Community Project initiatives were providing over $25,000 to 74 families and small farm owners in Nepal as interest free loans to allow them to develop or establish a business or community project. The loans were helping those families to set up a veterinary clinic, a number of goat farms, an orange farm, an animal and agricultural farm, numerous market stalls, tea shops, canteens and beauty parlours and a soap making business, as well as a number of shops selling fruit and vegetables, groceries, cosmetics, jewellery, knitting and tailoring items.
As a further example, during May and June 2008, our overseas business partner in Nepal reported that some mothers in a community group living in a remote village of Dhune Basi could not feed their children adequately after their village had been hit by extreme flooding which swept away houses, damaged others and severely damaged rice paddies.
This agricultural community grows rice in their valley paddies to (i) eat, (ii) sell, and (iii) seed for the season’s next crop, however, their most recent crop was so small that there was not even enough for food.
To add to their problems, they were then hit very hard by the escalating cost of rice in local markets (as is currently the case around the globe) the latter having risen substantially and quickly. This placed an additional burden on the already struggling families and, upon hearing this terrible news, Nepcam engaged in a relief effort for the poorest families by conducting a ‘Rice Fund’ appeal amongst its supporters for cash donations to purchase rice.
Generous donations by sponsors allowed Nepcam to raise sufficient funds to purchase 3.57 tons of rice which was delivered to the needy families.
It is anticipated that further emergency relief work will be undertaken in the future as similar desperate situations evolve.
The above process is firmly established in Nepal. The Advisory Board decided at its first meeting that it would focus initially on Nepal for the first few years, and seek to develop a partnership in that country as a first priority.
Nepcam's Project Selection Procedures
In Nepal, we engage our wonderful overseas business partner, the Socio-Economic Welfare Centre for Energetic Women (EWC), to consult with the local Nepalese communities and identify projects which will be beneficial to that community.
The procedure is now firmly established and works extremely well and smoothly for Nepcam, our local indigenous organisation partner and for each of the disadvantaged communities we are aiding. Essentially:
- Each community selected identifies the approximate percentage of a budget it would see, according to their circumstances, as desirable for their community project
- On a six-monthly cycle, Nepcam emails EWC about two months before the arrival of our Nepcam CEO advising the amount of money that can be budgeted for assisting the development of communities. EWC is an organisation with over 2000 female members and it is involved in many services and projects to aid the poor (see below for a listing). Because of its work, EWC staff have regular contact with poor indigenous Nepali communities, mainly due to EWC's own initiatives but also, increasingly, as a partner with Nepcam. EWC determines which communities will be contacted so that they can advise them regarding Nepcam’s potential for support.
- EWC holds a series of meetings with the women of the selected communities and invites a local school principal in that community to become involved. Currently, geographically, Nepcam supports communities in Kathmandu, Dune Basi, Bhaktipur, Ghorka and other small clusters of housing in very poor communities remote from main settlements.
- In these meetings, at times in the presence of our CEO, the Chairperson of EWC asks the women to identify their needs and to propose, for support by Nepcam, specific Community Projects. As a result of these meetings, EWC records the wishes of each of the local indigenous communities. The women are asked to detail the specific Community Projects in an order of priority.
- EWC then emails Nepcam with specific proposals for assistance. The Nepcam Advisory Board then meets and votes on the expenditure of aid funds as determined in the ratio decided by the meetings with each support community.
- Starting from the most needy, in consultation with EWC, the requisite number of Community Projects are selected according to budget.
How can you donate?
Donations can be made by either:
Bank transfer to:
Nepcam Trust Aid Fund, ANZ Bank, BSB 012-349 A/C 487031895.
or
Cheque or money order:
Please make cheques payable to "Nepcam Trust Aid Fund" and mail to Chief Finance Officer, 1 St Andrews Close, Belrose, 2085.
How can I contact Nepcam?
You can contact Nepcam in Australia by sending us an email at enquiries@nepcam.org.au