Neel Bahadur Shahi – President
President Neel Bahadur Shahi has been involved in Thanka business for nearly two decades. He has a great passion for improving the lives of other Nepalese people and is a veteran of social work in a variety of areas. His contributions to his Nepali society include helping those in poverty, sustainability development, education reform, and sponsoring health camps. For the pass four years, Neel has been dedicated to educational and environmental issues, starting from his own village, Talamarang. His successful experience has inspired him to establish TEAM Nepal as he believes that by working with a group of people instead of solely he will be able to achieve even higher goals.Email : neel@teamnepal.org.np, Cell : 977-9841278282
Jagat Basnet – Vice-President
Jagat Basnet has been involved in social work with a variety of organizations. He has expertise and vast experience in the fields of Land Rights and help ensuring the landless people of Nepal receive these rights. Moreover, he has achieved success in a variety of projects which provide land to homeless people.
Somraj Shahi (Bikash) – Secretary
Bikash is basically a businessman and has a painting galllery in Thamel, he gives his extra time, days ad nights during and after the shop to make the plans, programs and strategies for TEAM Nepal. He is a management graduate (MBS) from Tribhuban University and was a student of a small community school named Shree Golmeshorui Primary School for his first education. Then he was transferred to three schools before his SLC. He is a young guy with the aim and interest of doing something good for the other people in society. He believes it was by parents that he learned to help poor people. When there were some people in the village coming to beg something his parents used to give with great happiness and always learned that helping those who really need is like worshiping to the gods. In his opinion, the way his parents used to help others was single effort and now he is under combined effort, under a TEAM to do the same thing. His educational qualifications and experiences has helped TEAM Nepal to grow faster and achieve the targeted goals easily. He has been giving his full time in the developments of the projects since the foundation. Handling the office, keeping the contacts with the donors, updating and maintaining website, financial control and every documentation is solely done by Bikash so far.
Email : raj_shahi99@yahoo.com, Cell : 977-9841282296
Pramila Hamal – Treasure
Pramila Hamal is student as well as an experienced social worker in the fields of child right. She is one of the young and energetic member of TEAM Nepal. She has been helping on functional as well as other official work of the organization.
Krishna Thapa – Member
Involved in different projects carried out by UN and other international development partners. President of Partnership Nepal another organization.
Balkrishna Deuja – Member
Environmental Worker.
Ya Kumari Shahi – Member
House Wife and involved in different organizations as member and advisor.
Advisors
Melanie Hennessy – Ireland
Melanie is a medical student from Galway in Ireland. She began volunteering in Nepal in 2007. She was involved in establishing a children’s home in Nepaltar in Kathmandu and founded the Irish organisation Draiocht, which is involved in sending volunteers to Nepal and promoting Nepali culture in Ireland.
” TEAM Nepal is a wonderful organisation. It not only does amazing work to improve the lives of many people in Nepal but it does so in such a unique and clever way. By striving to make each of the projects that it is involved with self sustainable it ensures that Nepali people work to create a better future for themselves, instead of relying on handouts and constant donations. I would advise anyone to volunteer with TEAM Nepal because this organisation is what volunteering should be about instead of being an organisation which sees volunteering as a business,”
Email: draiocht@socs.nuigalway.ie, kimega3@yahoo.com
Deana Zabaldo- USA
Deana Zabaldo has hands-on experience in the Himalayas and a passion for its culture and peoples. First as a Peace Corps Volunteer and now as an expert trekking guide, she has been a catalyst for change in Nepal for 10 years through fundraising, volunteering, and sustainable development. Her experience also includes conducting education and training for Lucent Technologies, directing cross-cultural programs for Intrax Cultural Exchange, and teaching university psychology. She holds a Master’s in Behavioral Psychology and is a certified Wilderness First Responder and Yoga Instructor. Deana calls San Francisco, California home but also spends 4-5 months each year in the Himalayas, guiding treks and advising projects. She has an abiding dedication to make a positive impact in the world through transformative travel and sustainable development.
Peggy Roger- France
Roger Peggy is a singing artists from France, more then that she is a all time social worker as well as first donor to Terse School of Sindhupalchowk. She has been involved in helping children of community school since her first visit in Nepal. She has been frequently visiting in Nepal since 2002 and most of her services are related to the the child service and development. She has also been involved in child care in France as part timer. And now most importantly, she is the active partner as Executive Advisor of TEAM Nepal.
Email : proger@hotmail.com
Takai – Japan
Atsushi Takai is an Associate of Arts and Science,Temple Uni, Aug 1994 and majored in statistics, Sep 2004. He also has a good knowledge of English and has experience of social work in Nepal. For many years he has been coming to Nepal and working in a variety of projects, including providing help and support to mountain guides who often have to endure difficult conditions. This problem is often forgotten about.
Email: rockidiot@hotmail.com
Wendy O’Neil – Ireland
Wendy is a psychology student from Dublin in Ireland. She was also involved in establishing the children’s home in Nepaltar, Kathmandu. She has a strong desire to help does most in need in Nepal and is strongly involved with the Irish organisation Draiocht.
E-Wei Tao – USA
E-Wei graduated from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University which is located in New York, USA. With a graduate school degree in International Economic Policy Analysis, E-Wei is interested in poverty lifting and microfinancing in Nepal’s rural areas. Her short 6 weeks volunteer experience in the villages in Nepal generated this interest.
Email : et122@columbia.edu
