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IPPG
Newsletters: March 2003
Letters to the editor
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Dearest Dr Jim Duff,
I am a kind of porter guide, I have got licence from the
Government. I am working free lance, guide some time, sometime
trekking agent send me porter in highest mountain and they
pay me as very little money. No insurance if I die there,
so nobody will bring my body down to my village.
Could you tell me how can we make the one majority of trekking
workers in tourism industry. All porter guides have to come
together, and agents have to be together and support us and
give us medicine if we get problem if we have no money at
that time.
Please let me know about this kindly. Also in Nepal the highest
cast people hate us as they don't like the low cast. We are
real porter workers.
BBK
Ed: IPPG believes that it is up to the porters to eventually
negotiate with the Nepal government to set minimum wages,
maximum weights and enforce the laws that say you must have
insurance. Caste discrimination is obviously a problem as
well. This will take you some time but it will happen.
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Alpenverein Südtirol
Referat für Natur und Umwelt
Dear Mrs. Schiefer,
On behalf of the AVS,
I would like, by means of this communication, to extend to
you once again our most heartfelt thanks for your readiness
to help with the organisation of the IPPG photo exhibition.
As Dr Franz Müller has probably already told you, the
exhibition was shown at a doctors' congress in Gröden
and was very well received.
Prompted in part by the
IPPG photo exhibition, the AVS responded to a request from
the nature and environment unit and spoke out at its 85th
General Meeting in favour of providing support for mountain
porters. A concrete range of measures on this topic was unanimously
agreed. Amongst other measures, the AVS (with its 90 sections
and locations) undertakes in this document to implement the
minimum ethical standards for porters on all of its own expeditions.
It also undertakes actively to demand such standards from
other trekking and expedition organisers in South Tyrol. These
measures will be implemented in 2003.
Best regards,
Mag. Thomas Schmarda 8/3/03
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Hi Lyn,
I just saw the documentary
Carrying the Burden on SBS (Special Broadcast Service,
Australia) tonight.
I went on a trek last
year and can truly understand many of the difficulties IPPG
is trying to address. It is great to see that such an organisation
exists.
Well done!! Keep up the
fabulous work.
Best wishes, T
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