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A Volunteer’s Take on Our Projects

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Goto Mah on one of the streets of Bhaktapur. Note the boards holding the buildings up. A Volunteer’s Take on our Projects Guest Writer Goto Mah It all started as a call through C$. I was in Pokhara taking a break from volunteering and using some time for myself to sort out my own life while making friends. I was enjoying a sense of community that's hard to achieve when you live on the move . So that said, I was starting to feel like I should move my ass again and help Nepal with the relief effort after the earthquake. That same day I got a call from a friend who told me we were going to do a cleaning/demo action in Kathmandu, so I took an overnight bus that day and I was ready at the Fireflies to finish the banners in Kathmandu. Got the guy's faces painted and off we went to the streets of Thamel to let'em hear us. Then we marched to the temple nearby carrying brooms and shovels. Once we arrived we cleaned what were layers of plastic that had ...