by Laxmi Aryal | Oct 31, 2021 | Updates, Blog, News, Newsletter, Success Stories
Family Background It is my great pleasure to introduce a girl named Sirjana from a Tamang (Waiba) family from a remote village of Kavre Palanchok, where people still think that educating girls is unnecessary. Girls’ role is limited to working in farming, household,...
by Nabin Aryal | Sep 29, 2021 | News, Updates, Awareness, Blog, 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 | Sep 29, 2021 | News, Newsletter, Success Stories, Blog, Updates
It takes a village The famous proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child,” still holds in villages of a developing country like Nepal. Most families here work their land for a living which is generally not enough to sustain the family. Hence, men often...
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 | News, Updates, Awareness, Blog, Newsletter
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 Laxmi Aryal | Aug 29, 2021 | Blog, News, Newsletter, Success Stories, Updates
Tsultrim’s childhood Tsultrim, or Pema as she was known as a child, begins her story in the rolling hills of Nurbi, a village located on the lap of the northern Himalayan range in the Gorkha district of Nepal. Mount Manaslu is the highest peak in that range,...
