Short Summary

Lukeko Gaun, a village for arts and farming, is the dream center of International Center for Social Theater Nepal, where we aspire to bring creative people together to create a better world for everyone.

In the far corner of Lalitpur district near Kathmandu Valley, we're currently building a community center which will be useful for both the guests and neighbors of village. Our community center is a hub for all theater practitioners, yoga and meditation lovers, and all kinds of artists to meet, create and be one with nature. The center envisions forming a community of people to celebrate love all around and help regain peace, love and happiness in the world. People of the center become the change makers of the society.

Additionally, at the community center, we aspire to empower the local youths and women by providing them various training and workshops. Many theater workshops as well as residencies are being planned to be conducted in the community center which will ultimately provide job opportunities to the locals.

We're a small group of people who are passionate about theater and arts, so we're hopeful that the kind hearts of the world will work together with us to reach our goal of making an art community.

What We Need & What You Get

At the moment, in order to build our community center, we're making do with the resources locally available to us and have also started a goat farm to sustain ourselves. But we need your support to help us complete the construction of the community center.

Our planned structure includes building:
1. A community hall for events like training, workshop, yoga, meditation and so on,
2. A library that can be used by both the residents and the locals,
3. A hostel for residencies and for volunteer accommodation, along with a kitchen and few washrooms,
4. A few small cottages inside the forest for those seeking solace and inspiration in nature,

5. An eco-friendly tree-house reading space,

6. A permaculture farm,

7. And planting 200 trees in the Lukeko Gaun premises.

What do the donors get from helping us?
With a common dream of bringing the world together, while you help us by donating, we help you by delivering your love and concern to the society without requiring you to spare time from your busy schedule. We appreciate donations as small as $10 because we know you care and for that we cannot give you anything except love and blessings. Additionally, if you solely or in partnership sponsor any of our proposed buildings, we assure you that the building will be named after you. After all, everyone needs to know the name of the person behind the kind gesture. And if some day you plan to visit us, you will get to enjoy the love and affection of our local neighbors too.

The Impact

Through our center, we hope to have a larger impact in to bringing oneness in the world. Some of the other impacts include:

• A hub for artists, theater practitioners, yogis and creators from all around the globe
• Working space for creative individuals and groups
• A center for yoga and meditation that everyone can benefit from
• Exchange of culture as well as ideas between the global and the local communities
• Employment opportunities to the locals along with various training and workshops
• Market for locally farmed produces

Risks & Challenges

As ours is an ambitious project, we might have to face a few challenges like in-coordination of the locals or the lack to visiting residents who can add value to the community. We, however, take these challenges and motivation and work harder everyday to set things right.

We, as of now, have cordial relationship with all our neighbors, and with our friendly ways, we plan on keeping situations under control. As far as the visiting residents are concerned, we are sure that all our fellow artist friends and the ones who've visited us personally will help us spread the word around.

Other Ways You Can Help

We understand that some of you may be unable to help us financially but you can still help us by:

• Volunteering directly at our community center and farm.
• Getting the word out and spreading the news of our campaign.
• Sharing our campaign by using Indiegogo share tools!