Our Trip to Nepal

OUR ARRIVAL 

Our first day started slowly with a breakfast before getting picked up by Bhim, a new felt supplier. We drove out of central Kathmandu towards the hills and close to the monkey temple. 

It’s great to be back in Nepal! Bhim has a broad smile and shows us around. We are struck by how immense the factory is, and well organised, we love watching the production. Rosie our daughter got involved and hijacked & loved making and playing with the felt!! 

OUR SOCK SUPPLIER

Today, we visited two knitting groups. It was organised for us to meet them in one of their homes where they occasionally get together to knit and gossip. The first house was in yet another historic town in the Kathmandu Valley, Bhaktapur. We enjoyed a couple hours with the knitters chatting, discussing production and taking photos. 

Amber our oldest fell in love with the area, just outside the house was a small school and monastery. She loved how free the children were!! 

We then visited Bhaktapur’s Square, this was our first visit here. 

Get Paper Industries

We always get the best welcome here. Milan picked us up from the guest house and we arrived at Get Paper, greeted by near on 100 men and women stood in two lines forming a corridor for us to walk up the hill. Everyone is presenting us a beautiful bouquet of flowers. 

The Anita Milan International Academy

We started our tour of the factory before being taken up the hill to the Anita Milan School. Yet again we were greeted with flowers and the beautiful smiles of the children. They organised a wonderful welcome ceremony of singing and dancing. It was so beautiful!! We were presented with gifts and Milan organised us some gifts to hand out to all the pupils. Amber and Rosie took on this role which they really enjoyed and they loved visiting one of the classrooms. It’s always the most amazing visit here at Get Paper, they are such fabulous people and Milan is a true inspiration!