First Spark in Nepal
From 2007 - 2008, First Spark was conducting its work in Nepal. Projects included:
CMC-Nepal - Creation of a video documentary about CMC's mission and activities which they could distribute online and as a DVD to their partners and potential donors 
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Mary Knoll Holiday - Organisation and delivery of a holiday to the national park of Chitwan for 9 adults suffering from mental illness. This took place in November 2008. more
Mental Hospital, Lagankhel - Complete production of a website for the Hospital and Nepal's first mental health online portal. This included researching and writing the content, creating the design, programming the code and organising the domain name and hosting of the website. First Spark has also had published an article promoting mental health, the mental hospital (and its new website) in the Nepalese national press and assisted the hospital put two proposals together to attract funds from donors. more
Himalayan Project - Support to set up a sub-health post in the Solo Kumbu region of Nepal. First Spark has liased with other organisations who have set up similar health posts to help Himalayan Project plan and prepare their health post. In June 2008 First Spark is visiting the region to conduct a preliminary report ahead of data collection planned for October 2008. more
CWIN Holiday - Organisation and delivery of a holiday to the national park of Chitwan for 15 children who are under the care of CWIN. This took place in June 2008 and you can now watch a short video about the trip. more
CMC-Nepal - Review and complete redesign of their existing website including substantial new content added to assist fund-raising. Search optimisation was carried out to improve their rankings in search engines so more NGOs would think of CMC when they needed help with psychoscoial counselling. Training given to staff so that they can update the website themselves. more
