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Actionaid Charity Work in Nepal

Actionaid Charity Work in Nepal

Bouygues UK Site Engineer, Rebecca Hall, based on the NMUH Project has taken her skills to a remote Nepalese village to help build homes for a community recently freed from slavery.

Becci Hall, 26, from Haringey, North London, said the charity challenge was hard but rewarding work.

 Miss Hall took part in the scheme organised by ActionAid to visit the village of Belarpur, where the inhabitants were, until recently, indentured slaves to the local landowner.

 

With the practice outlawed by the Nepalese government in 2001, the community of agricultural workers were left with no land, no money and nowhere to live.

 

"Now they had freedom, but no proper housing, no money, nothing," Miss Hall said.

 

As part of a team of volunteers, she spent two weeks on site helping to construct the houses and said she had come back with a new perspective.

 

"It really was a culture shock to come back and see what we take for granted here," she said. "It has made me appreciate what we have and motivated me to do something again."

 

Miss Hall raised more than £3,000 for her trip and used her annual leave to work in Nepal. She is already planning her next charity adventure and hopes to visit her sponsored child in Uganda.