NRNA Slovakia at the fjuzn winter market

NRNA Slovakia has completed, with great enthusiasm and success, its first outreach event since the organisation was founded: a proud presence at the fjúžn festival.

At the festival we offered tea and hospitality in the Nepali tradition, talked with visitors, and recorded in a visitors' book the views and the affection for Nepal of those who have travelled there and those who have not.

Visitors welcomed the founding of NRNA Slovakia, praised its importance in Slovak society and its participation in the event, and the meetings and conversations with new Nepalis made the fair very enjoyable. Between 12:00 and 13:00 in particular, despite the crowd, our officers were so busy talking and welcoming people that the time flew by. All in all the fair was full of energy and success.

We thank everyone who helped us make this first grand event since our foundation a success. Our deepest thanks go to Nadácia Milana Šimečku, the organisers of the festival, and we commit ourselves to standing alongside them at every event they hold in the future.

Finally, a salute to all the officers of the NRNA Slovakia team who worked heart and soul to make this event a success. Embracing the handover of culture, skill, experience and leadership, I am confident they will go forward even more capably in the days ahead in their guardian role for Nepalis living in Slovakia.

With various associations and organisations expressing a wish to work with NRNA Slovakia — and with our cooperation with IOM about to be made official — we have resolved to join hands with all governmental and non-governmental bodies in Slovakia that share our aims, and to establish NRNA Slovakia as a strong, trustworthy and lasting organisation.

Let us all say it in one voice: let us make NRNA great — the identity of Nepalis in Slovakia.

— President