(MENAFN- Gulf Times) The Nepalese community is enjoying performances of their native artists on a regular basis for more than three months. Assorted
nonresident Nepalese groups are organising musical and cultural shows in Doha for more than one cause - providing entertainment
to the community, promoting arts and culture of the Himalayan nation and collecting funds for social causes. Some organisations
have channelised the funds collected from concerts among other functions to the support of underprivileged children and old age
homes in rural quarters of Nepal.
Following the trend, Syanja Samparka Manch (SSM) organised a cultural programme to support street and orphaned children in the
western hills of Nepal earlier this month. Held in Quality Hypermarket, popular folk singers Purushottam Kafle and Kala Pangeni
entertained the crowd along with Doha-based local artists.
Both singers, Kafle and Pangeni hail from Syanja district, which SSM represents. Like SSM, there are large numbers of district-
based Nepalese organisations in Qatar. Among 20 of them have provided ambulances to their home districts, 10 of them have
supported senior citizens, 30 have built and renovated rural school buildings, and many have supported rehabilitation and
schooling of disadvantaged - orphaned, handicapped and street children.
Unlike those who have settled in Europe and America, Qatar-based Nepalese are more into philanthropy and donate chunks of their
incomes for social causes. Such cultural programmes have two objectives - entertainment and social service.
The event was chaired by SSM president Bhesraj Parajuli while guests included nonresident leaders Purna KC, Umesh Adhikari,
Deepak Khadka, RK Sharma, TB Karki Sagar Nepal, Ishwor Kafle and Narendra Bhatt.
Singer Purushottam Kafle performed five melancholic songs, about hope and despair of mothers and wives whose sons and husbands
work in foreign countries. One of his songs was about a Nepalese army personal battling somewhere in the country. Some of the
audiences were brought into tears while he sang the gloomy and melodious numbers as almost all his songs were addressed to sons
and their responsibilities towards their families and the country.
Another song dealt with discrepancies between countrymen and urbanites and how latter tends to hate the former. Performing for
the third time in Qatar, Kafle suggested the audience to work diligently and to make their families proud.
Soon after Kafle, Kala Pangeni sang five songs about teenage culture in Nepal. Her songs held strong messages to the teenagers
who have afflicted with bad habits of drinking and smoking among others. This was the first performance of Pangeni in Qatar. "I
request you to listen and promote Nepalese music," she addressed the crowd before she stepped down the stage.
Dancer Hemanta Lama who started his dancing career three months before, from the same venue, showed an exotic performance. Lama's
dance acquired huge audience applause. Dancer Isha Gotami and singer Dhruba BC also performed in the programme among others.
Nonresident leaders RK Sharma, Ishwar Kafle and Umesh Adhikari among others provided donations to SSM to be spent to support
orphaned and street children of Nepal. One of the audience member, 58-year-old Ramesh Malla, was a schoolmate of singer Kafle who
managed to meet him after 25 years. "Today is one of my important days during my 10 years in Qatar," Malla said.
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