What does Dashain and Tihar remind you of? The cold winter nights, streets full of lights, smell of sel roti and long nights with friends and family you haven’t seen for awhile?
All the varieties of festivals and occasions we celebrate carry their own significance but I’d say that the main festivals of Nepalese are Dashain and Tihar. We choose to celebrate with our close friends, relatives and family.
Nepal Seattle Society (NSS) hosted the Dashain and Tihar event on Nov 5th at Cascadia College. The food, entertainment, and the attire was just as like in Nepal. Our Center for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation (CDCF)/NEYPVAL year 2 team was also present at the event
The main purpose of this project was to update our community members on COVID and FLU. NSS had the Dashain and Tihar Event 2079 B.S. after 2 long years where the hope of people gathering was possible, but it came to our notice that the COVID cases were rising. Therefore, we had to inform our community members to take precaution in our upcoming event so that everyone involved can enjoy it. The team posted a flyer on social media to take necessary precaution.
We shared informational flyers regarding covid vaccine, flu vaccine and insurance accessibility. We were able to collect surveys from the attendees at the event. We are hoping that the survey we collect will help us understand the vaccine hesitancy among nepali community. We were able to get 36 surveys from this event alone. We are hoping to collect surveys in the near future event being hosted by Nepal Seattle Society (NSS).
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