Our Key Project
The United Nations Development Programme contributed nearly one million dollars for preparation of a Master Plan for the development of Lumbini, including numerous engineering and archaeological studies. The plan, which was completed in 1978, has as its objecive to restore an area of about 7.7 square-km, to be known as the Lumbini Garden, centering on the garden and the Ashoka Pillar, with an additional area of 64.5 square-km to be developed in its support.
Within the plan for the development of Lumbini Garden, there are three main components:
1. New Lumbini Village
2. The Cultural Centre/Monastic Zone
3. The Sacred Garden.
The design is oriented north-south, with Lumbini Village and Cultural Centre north, and the focus of the design – the Sacred Garden – to the. south. On either side of the axis towards its southern end are the monastic enclaves. The entire development is tied together by a central link consisting of a walkway and a canal. This central link establishes the solitude and sanctity of the Sacred Garden, with its pillar and spectacular panorama of the Himalaya, and offers pilgrims time and space to prepare themselves as they approach the Sacred Garden.
So far, no Nepal Government or INGO's have apparently envisaged any projects to uplift the poor lives of the people of the surrounding villages. These villagers are the natural keepers of the Lumbini Garden. If the lives of the people of these villages are not improved, the security and environment of Lumbini Garden will always be at stake. At the Sarvodaya Shramadan Nepal, we would like to square this responsibility and vow to develop the lives of the people of this vicinity, eventually to safeguard the edifices and the other features of the constructed Lumbini Garden. Eventually, this shall be the key but, not the only project Sarvodaya Shramadana Nepal will undertake.
The key project shall include Health and Sanitation, Safe Drinking Water and Irrigation, Living Quarters and Landscaping, Economy Generating Programs and Education and Mental Health Strenghtening Programs.
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