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Wednesday, April 07, 2010 |
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 There is a broad expanse of parkland in Kathmandu with tall, beautiful trees festooned with families of monkeys skittering up and down. It’s known as the Bhandarkal Jungle.
Less happy are the scattered piles of garbage and the shady corners littered with used syringes. For Bhandarkal jungle is a junkies’ hangout that yielded two sacks of those discarded syringes last Monday 5 April.
The Global Peace Service Alliance (GPSA) decided to do something about this and make the Jungle a secure sanctuary where the citizens of Kathmandu can relax and enjoy its natural beauty. Twenty-two hundred young volunteers gathered in the Jungle Monday 5 April to launch the project which involves cleanup first followed by the construction of public facilities once government support has been secured.
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Monday, April 05, 2010 |
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 Global Peace Festival leaders in Nepal kicked off efforts for the 2010 regional GPF slated for October with a Global Peace Leadership Conference (GPLC) in Kathmandu on April 4. The conference featured presentations by Global Peace Festival Foundation chairman, Dr. Hyun Jin Moon, who traveled to Nepal with other GPFF international leaders for this occasion. Dr. Moon was extremely active Easter Sunday, speaking three times at the day-long conference.
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Hon. Sujata Koirala lit a traditional lamp to formally open the conference. New light at Easter seemed a fitting symbol for the meeting even if the country is predominantly Hindu.
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Monday, April 05, 2010 |
A GPFF delegation led by founder and chair Dr. Hyun Jin Moon and his wife Jun Sook Moon met with the Honorable Sujata Koirala, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Nepal on April 2 in Kathmandu to offer condolences on the death of her father, five-time prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala, last March 20. The group included Nepalese and international GPFF leaders.
Thanking the group for their good wishes, the Hon. Koirala said that her father, 86, had been widely respected in Nepal as he had worked till the very end to promote unity among the fractious political parties trying to create a parliamentary democracy in Nepal.
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Saturday, April 03, 2010 |
“A message of peace and brotherhood in Nepal is very timely,” said Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Saturday in offering his support for the regional Global Peace Festival to be held in Kathmandu this October. The event is expected to attract 70,000 mostly young people.
The prime minister explained to Dr. Hyun Jin Moon and a group of GPFF leaders that there were 103 different ethnic groups and communities in Nepal with over 100 languages and dialects. Traditionally these communities had coexisted peacefully but in recent years political conflict had created and exacerbated divisions that now went down to the village level.
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