Builders inspect the transition homes, then write a cheque
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The most useful endorsement a construction project can get is from people who know how buildings fail.
Board members of the Rudra Gauri Shree Ambika Oli Foundation, a Nepali organisation, travelled to Sipapokhare in late April 2016 and walked the site. They spoke to families living in completed houses. Several of the visitors had themselves worked as builders, and their assessment was that the transition homes would last more than ten years.
After the visit the foundation's board voted to donate 500,000 Nepali rupees. Its president, Ganga P. Oli, and vice-president, Gopal Oli, were named in the announcement.
The organisation used the occasion to issue a standing invitation: anyone was welcome to visit the construction site and give feedback on the quality of the work. That invitation appears repeatedly in its 2015 and 2016 communications, alongside a request that people raise questions and criticise the finances.
