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| Street family |
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Today the training continued for Ruth, Vivienne and Gordon while the rest of us trekked into the back alleys around Tamhal in the search for merchandise items.
The merchandise range that TtN offers at our Awareness events forms a vital part as an income stream to assist raising funds for the ministry.
This year the Freedom Tour is travelling for three months of concerts and school visits and the merch will be an integral part of this fund raising venture. So procuring stock for the next few months is key.
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| Keshav and Prasamsa |
To aide our search for wholesalers we enlisted the help of a long term friend of the ministry, Keshav. Keshav runs many businesses in and around the merch industry. He and his wife Prasamsa operate in a key market that greatly assists us to locate and export merch in a timely manner.
Today he took time away from his work to travel with us and show us the locations and haggle the best price for items. His help was invaluable.
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| Inside Keshav's store |
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| The team on the hunt |
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| Modelling the stock |
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| Catching up with one of our regular wholesalers. |
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Another wonderful treat when visiting locals in this amazing country is their hospitality. As guests the respect and honour given to us is a somewhat overwhelming and often misunderstood by first timers. Along with this comes the ginger tea, we love ginger tea, and no trip is complete unless you have chugged on a few dozen cups of this sweet nectar.
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| The girls enjoying sweet ginger tea. |
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When the Bunda was on, which was cancelled for today so traffic returned to its extremely erratic self, non motorised options for transport began to take on a certain appeal when compared to walking. Here is one option considered, however the riders could not be coaxed to travel from Tamhal to NayaBasti!
We saw a motorcycle swerve to miss hitting a vehicle on our taxi ride this morning. His evasive manoeuvres avoided a collision but were so violent it sent his pillion sailing through the air and crashing to the ground. In Nepal only the driver need wear a helmut and this poor lass hit the ground hard. She stood to her feet immediately and appeared shaken but not severely injured. She will have a very sore shoulder and some skin off but hopefully that is all. We watched this unfold through the windscreen of our taxi directly in front of us. We had to swerve to miss her! It was very close.
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| New relationships |
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| The merch team |
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| Scouring the back alleys |
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We saw this gentleman totally "getting into" the reading of his newspaper, cracked us up.
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| Engrossed in the news of the day. |
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Well that was today and the escapades of the team. We are all well, it is a good team and some wonderful relationships are forming. It is a thrill to see so many people committed to serving the Lord in so many vast ways to further the ministry and all that it entails. The students are furthering their skill sets and developing life traits that will serve them for many years thanks to the tireless work of so many wonderful volunteers both now and previously.
A special thank-you to you all.
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| The taxi drive home late this evening. |
Till next time.
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