by Nabin Aryal | Sep 29, 2021 | Updates, Awareness, Blog, News, Newsletter
Authorities of Kathmandu District Administrative Office and Dakshinkali Municipality decided to restart in-person classes in all schools of the district from September 6. The schools were mostly shut down from April 2020 (the schools were briefly opened from March 1...
by Laxmi Aryal | Aug 31, 2021 | Awareness, General, Blog, Newsletter, Didi Program
Special Didi Program Girl trafficking is a very severe problem in Nepal. Poverty, illiteracy, and lack of employment opportunities in the country enable the traffickers to exploit young girls. Here are just a few examples and statistics from the United Nations’...
by Nabin Aryal | Aug 31, 2021 | Awareness, Blog, News, Newsletter, Updates
Oxygen for the Community As we talked about in a previous post, the pandemic has caused a lot of damage and destruction in Nepal and overwhelmed the hospital system, especially when it comes to life-saving resources like oxygen. As part of our emergency support, the...
by Nabin Aryal | May 30, 2021 | Updates, Awareness, Blog, News, Newsletter
What is the current situation of COVID infection in Nepal? Text(Graph: courtesy Reuters May 27) Although the daily cases have been declining for the past few days, Nepal still records more than 7,800 covid cases and over a 150 deaths daily. The prohibitory order has...
by Nabin Aryal | Apr 29, 2021 | Newsletter, Updates, Awareness, Blog, News
What is the present situation? For the past few weeks, COVID infection is rapidly increasing in Nepal, especially in Kathmandu and other big cities. The first wave of infections peaked in October 2020 and since then it “decreased” dramatically. Starting in February of...
by Nabin Aryal | Feb 28, 2021 | Awareness, Blog, News, Updates
Several recent studies from the development agencies suggest that the dynamics of the child marriage is changing in Nepal. Child marriage in Nepal was a predominantly rural phenomenon where the parents forced their children to get married through “arranged marriage”....