2024 Newsletter
Read about our school reconstruction project in Nepal as well as our other activities in our annual newsletter!
Latest News
Summer 2024
D2N has identified Jana Bikash Basic School in Thuli Barkh as our first school to be rebuilt following the November 2023 earthquake. The school serves 80 low-income students, ages 4-10, from 70 families in three communities. The students are currently housed in a temporary learning center constructed by UNICEF.
We are in the process of finalizing the budget and determining the scope of the local community’s contribution. D2N requires community investment of some kind (materials, labor, funds) in every project.
Read More ...April 15, 2024
Happy Spring! Planning continues for the rebuilding of earthquake-safe schools in Nalgad Municipality, Nepal. BlinkNow is D2N's partner in our earthquake relief efforts. BlinkNow's primary endeavor is the Kopila Valley Children's Home, an orphanage. Team Alex, one of D2N's longtime partners in Detroit, is sharing their compassionate nature and love of biking by sponsoring the Kopila Valley Bike club at the orphanage. The sponsorship includes bicycles, helmets and gear for the children as well as weekly maintenance by a mechanic. The spirit of Alex Graham lives on. Watch a video; the kids thank Team Alex at the beginning of the video.
Earthquake Update, 12.19.23
During his time in Western Nepal Richard, along with our partners BlinkNow and HAPSA Nepal, delivered much-needed supplies (sanitation kits, jackets, blankets, food, thermoses and sleeping bags) to two villages. After gathering input from the affected communities they developed an Earthquake Relief Plan. Details of the plan can be found here.
Earthquake Update
In the past week D2N, HAPSA Nepal and BlinkNow have supplied food, tents, warm blankets and clothes, and other supplies to more than 400 families and are in the midst of providing 250 tarps, 250 bags of rice, 650 blankets, dry food items, cooking support, womens' shawls, and enough clothing for about 500 children, moms and babies, emergency medical kits and menstrual hygiene supplies. BlinkNow has also sent teams of volunteer doctors, nurses, counselors, social workers. Supplies are brought in by trucks supplied by D2N, the injured are brought back to Surkhet in an ambulance supplied by D2N.
Read More ...Nepal Earthquake, November 2023
On November 3, 2023 a powerful earthquake struck Western Nepal. Although the area is nowhere near Khotang, because of contacts and resources developed over the past 13 years, D2N is in a position to provide expeditious relief. We will be partnering with HAPSA, non-profit organization that has been working to strengthen health system in Nepal and BlinkNow Foundation, a non-profit already working in Western Nepal, to provide warm meals, a safe drinking water station, blankets, temporary shelters and other necessary items to help residents in Jajarkot get through the next few days and until longer term solutions can be found.
November 2023
Read our annual newsletter. Read about Boston Congress of Public Healths' award winners, Richard and Anya.
Ride Together 2023
A few impressions from our fundraising event "Ride Together 2023".
Read More ...Ride Together 2023
A fundraising event sponsored by D2N with all donations going to Black Leaders Detroit.
A beautiful, forty mile traffic free route on paths and trails. Mountain or gravel bike friendly.
Saturday August 19 in Detroit.
Summer 2023
Happy Summer! Read about D2N's newest partner, Black Leaders Detroit, in The Jewish News, Richard in the Boston Congress of Public Health and watch Mama Shu on CNN.