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18,500 of the poorest people in Nepal have directly benefitted from the work of Skelmersdale based charity Resolve International since it registered as a charity in January 2006.

We are celebrating our tenth anniversary year with a grant of £32,882 from the British and Foreign School Society. The grant will help us establish library rooms with furniture and books in five primary schools in Palakot, Baglung District, Nepal.

‘70% of students at state and community schools fail their school leaving exams, so we are starting at the primary level to improve teaching skills. The grant is allowing us to work with a local partner to provide library management training and a range of short courses to improve teachers’ skills at the schools’ said Keith Laycock, Chairman of Resolve International.

The charity recently completed a project to construct 100 toilets and supply water to a small community in the same district. ‘This month we started a new project to construct 110 more toilets’.

25th April will be the first anniversary of the 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Nepal. The country suffered 400 earthquakes during the next month. 9,000 people died, 25,000 classrooms were destroyed and 100,000 people were made homeless.

Before the earthquakes Nepal was already the poorest country in South Asia. 70% of the population scratch a living as subsistence farmers. It is the rural population which was worst hit. The epicentres of the earthquakes were in rural areas and the houses are not as substantially built as in the capital city.

Keith Laycock spent three weeks in Nepal just before Christmas 2015 and found that Nepal’s problems had increased because the border with India was closed for four months, so all the petrol, cooking gas and other essentials which Nepal’s citizens need were not available.

‘People in the mountains are still living in tents after the earthquakes’ said Keith.

Paul Dickie from Lathom was in Kathmandu during the first earthquake and has a strong desire to help earthquake affected people in Nepal. Paul is a member of Aughton Male Voice Choir and to mark the first anniversary of the major earthquake has arranged a Gala Concert at Ormskirk Parish Church on 25th April at 7.30 p.m. Paul became aware of Resolve International through an article in the Champion newspaper. Resolve International’s work to supply water to rural communities will benefit from the concert.

For more information on Resolve International’s work in Nepal visit

Tickets for the concert are £8 at the door or via our website www.resolveinternational.org.

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