Two weeks doing tech-related maintenance, including repairing wifi and building a shoe shelf
Two weeks in the building team of a strawbale house
Volunteer in infrastructure & maintenance team
Volunteered during three seasons 2024, 2025, 2026
heavy lifting
wood cutting
carpentry
Two weeks in construction team
5 days clay plastering of a natural-built house
Steward at Open House Stockholm event
Open House is an urban event, showcasing outstanding local architecture. Its aim is to increase interest for architecture and urban planning. My interest is urban planning and functional design, so I was naturally a part of this event.
Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (WiSTEM) is a Nepali organisation encouraging women (8-29 y.o.) to acquire an education in the STEM fields, in order to raise their education level, remove the unfortunate stigma that women can only be housewives and decrease the gender pay gap.
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Following the fuel crisis of September 2015 in Nepal, many news blogs sprung up without referencing sources. Me and my team members made a browser extension that warned users for unreliable websites. The extension was targeted towards Nepali users and was called Khabardar, meaning 'warning' in Nepali.
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Tens of thousands of NGOs operate in Nepal. Cases have been recorded when what looked like decent organisations vanished, along with donations and investments made to their account. NGOs have to be officially registered at the Social Welfare Council (SWC). Unfortunately, there is no simple way to search for, or assess the reliability of those NGOs. Neither is there pertinent information provided like causes and active projects.
Extension: created a RESTful backend that analysed websites based on domain and whois information, as well as based on an internal whitelist and blacklist. https://github.com/parewalabs/khabardar
NGOs: responding to this, me and my team members created a website that aimed to crowdsource trusted, reputable and active NGOs in Nepal. https://github.com/parewalabs/ngosinnepal
Grandma Knows Best was a local, environmental-friendly startup that offered cleaning services.
FuturePerfect is an annual festival that brings forward discussion on themes of sustainable living. It's a collaboration platform for increasing public engagement.
My tasks were both hands-on (building the event and sleeping area) and managerial (managing a small team under time pressure).
The event was held on a small island, where the main transportation was by feet. Two four-wheelers existed but had to be booked through a cumbersome and expensive process. Being tight on schedule, I enquired locals and could finally borrow a bicycle. This turned out to be a win-win: the managerial team raised its efficiency and the bicycle owner was rewarded.
Organized a public event aimed at discussing the trendy 'eco' and 'organic' subjects. Organic three-course dinner, music by local entertainers, guests including the Green Party. At Göteborgs nation, Uppsala
KinoRurik is an annual Russian festival, held in Uppsala and Stockholm, Sweden.