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NEWS FURNEX NEPAL EXHiBITION 2014 The exhibition will showcase designs and decorations of various furniture and furnishing houses. Similarly it will cater information regarding repair and maintenance, value of goods and materials. And, keeping in mind the increasing demand for furniture and furnishing for homes and offices, it will avail a single platform for buyers and sellers. Nepal Furniture and Furnishing Association (NFFA) are all geared up to raise the curtains of the 3rd Furnex Nepal Exhibitions that is scheduled to be held on 27 to 31 August at Bhrikuti Mandap Exhibition Hall. With the success of the 1st and 2nd Furnex Nepal Exhibition, even the visitors, buyers, and businesses seem to be excited about the upcoming event. NFFA association was established in the year 2056 B.S and is an umbrella organization of Furniture and Furnishing Manufacturers, Product importers, Distributors, Dealers and Professionals, bonded together for raising their voice and getting protection in compliance with the government acts. NFFA is a non-profit oriented and a nongovernmental organization that involves groups of renowned Furniture & Furnishing related business people of Nepal. It focuses on promoting Furniture & Furnishing products in urban as well as rural areas of Nepal. The association not only believes in public private partnership for assisting the government of Nepal in related objectives like National import/export, manufacture Policy but also believes in advocacy of users’ rights regarding the cases of warranty, guarantee, counterfeit, fraud issues of grey channel etc. Furnex Nepal Exhibition 2014 is bound to energize new expertise in furniture, furnishing and decoration businesses, brands and organizations featuring a prime, easily accessible location with a wide array of experts on services and onspot experience. Similarly it will avail an opportunity for local furniture manufacturers of Nepal to promote their product and service. According to NFFA there will be up to 46 big stalls and 20 small sized stalls in the exhibition. The title sponsor for the event is Shaan Furniture, Status Group’s Polo and Yeti Carpet as main sponsors, Premier Insurance as the official insurance and Spaces Magazine as the official magazine. The Event is managed by Dr. CS Events, Pvt. Ltd. ‘Kuch Bhi Ho Sakta Hai’ Anupam Kher Live in Nepal The show avails an opportunity to the audience to experience Anupam Kher’s Journey to stardom, uncovering the hidden chapters from his book of life, stories of his resilience, heartbreaks, triumphs and how he turned every obstacle into a milestone during his 32 years in acting career. Koseli School Nepal, is presenting one of the fabulous charity show of the year in Kathmandu, named as ‘Kuch Bhi Ho Sakta Hai with Anupam Kher’, a prominent Indian talk show that share Bollywood’s biggest celebrities stories of failure and success which is featured in Colors Chanel, a Hindi entertainment channel. Koseli School Nepal’s charity show is inviting one of the top Bollywood actor/director Anupam Kher in Nepal to entertain audiences in Nepal with his live act show and stories of his life. The Anupam Kher Show – Kuch Bhi Ho Sakta Hai is a 2014 Indian talk show hosted by Anupam Kher that features a new celebrity every week. The show is renowned to highlight inspirational stories of Bollywood celebrities, and is still achieving success since their first aired show with actor Shah Rukh Khan. Koseli is synonymous to ‘a Gift’ and the gift will definitely be life time memorabilia for the students of Koseli School who will get a chance to be educated by the prominent actor of India. Koseli School is a center for slum and street children situated in Kathmandu and are running under a registered NGO. This school is helping underprivileged children of Nepal who come to the city for better lives but due to poverty are often left to fence for their shelves in harsh conditions. These children come from the poorest area of the country and society and almost all of them end up living in miserable and unimaginable condition and their biggest need is survival through any means possible. Koseli School seeks to integrate the slum and street children into main stream society by providing them with a normal childhood and empowering them back to the society through education and skills. Currently the school has 120 students with requests for more admissions every day while seeking attention, education and need for care. Hence the event organized by Koseli School, and managed by WFS Events and Services will be a support to the students and can admit more underprivileged students as all the incomes from the event will be a beneficiary to the children admitted in Koseli School. The Charity show is being organized at Army Officer’s club on Friday, 22 August 2014 where throughout the play; the audience will get an opportunity to experience Anupam Kher’s Journey to stardom, uncovering the hidden chapters from his book of life, stories of his resilience, heartbreaks, triumphs and how he turned every obstacle into a milestone during his 32 years in acting career. The tickets are priced as NRs. 8,000- VIP tickets, NRs 5,000 – Golden tickets, NRs 3,000 – Silver tickets and NRs 1,500 – Bronze tickets. 14 / SPACESNEPAL.COM
NEWS Retro-fitting of School Buildings: An Imperative Need of Disaster Preparedness It is reported that 77 percent schools in the valley lack the safety measures in buildings for earthquake disaster. Hence there is an imperative need of disaster preparedness in vulnerable schools in Nepal. Schools in Nepal of the various regions are particularly exposed to different kinds of disasters. Disaster awareness and preparedness at the schools in Nepal is considered to be very low. School survey conducted in 1998-1999 shows that there are about 643 public schools and 909 numbers of buildings. Out of 378 schools surveyed, the study showcases that collapse grade is of 66 percent whereas 23 percent school buildings are in repairable condition and 11 percent schools are beyond repairable and are likely to face severe damages. But, at present there are more than 32,000 public and private schools, and the challenge is to scale up the process of enhancing earthquake safety of schools for which institutionalization of the concept of School Earthquake Safety Program SESP is necessary. Schools are source of education and also a tool to make people aware about safety from hazards. Students, teachers, parents and the members of the management committee are the active agents who help widen the outreach of the earthquake safety measures. The earthquake resistant school building stands there as stimulator to change the current construction practice. School students are good conveyers of information from school to individual households. In this sense, school could be considered as ignition point to change traditional practices to seismically safer construction practice. Apart from its educational usage, schools are also used as community meeting places and emergency shelters during disasters. Despite the high risk of earthquakes, school construction in Nepal has largely ignored issues of structural safety and they are built very informally just like common residential buildings. Over 77 percent of the valley’s public schools are likely to collapse if they were to experience intensity IX shaking. Estimated casualty figures for a scenario earthquake of MMI IX shaking during school hours in Kathmandu Valley are: 29,000 deaths - including students, teachers and administrative staff (12 percent), 43,000 seriously injured (18 percent), total collapse of school buildings (66 percent), partial collapse (11 percent), and 23 percent buildings will suffer from minor to moderate damage. Nepal lies in high earthquake prone zone and promoting earthquake resistant construction can appreciably reduce the losses from the potential threat. Temasek Foundation, a Singapore based philanthropic organization that builds a more prosperous and connected Asia through developing human and social capital, is supporting training programs on various subjects like education and disaster response capability that promotes positive networks of cooperation in and across communities in Asia. Similarly Nanyang Technological University (NTU), a leading university, which has a vibrant research culture and has created a name internationally for its work in state of arts areas like advanced materials, biomedical engineering, clean energy and environment, computational biology, intelligent systems, and nanotechnology. As a result of joint project, retro-fitting of the building of Adarsha Azaad Higher Secondary School was made possible and the building was inaugurated recently. The delegates present in the inauguration ceremony were Mr. Gerald Yeo, the Director of Temasek Foundation, and Professor Lee Soo Ying of NTU, NSET staffs and faculties of Adarsha Azaad School. NSET, NTU and Temasek foundation had also provided construction supervision. During construction, the masons and technicians were provided with the hands-on training on earthquake resistant construction. Further the school teachers, students and the surrounding community were also oriented on earthquake safety. Emergency Response Plan of the school is developed including training of teachers, parents, children and the community for the drill to be performed based on the plan. NSET started providing on-the-job training and classroom lectures for the masons during the School Earthquake Safety Program (SESP) in 1999, it was observed that the mason training was very effective and the impact was remarkable with high replication potential. Mason training became the integral part of the school safety program. The masons trained during the program are now spreading the technology of earthquake-resistant construction in their communities and replicating the technology while constructing new buildings. They are also training other masons. Thus the process of replication is expected to create a multiplying effect in future to set a new technological culture in construction. june 2014 / 15
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