We are very sad to report the passing away of Mrs. Betty Barclay on Friday, 20 October, 2017. She was 92. She developed pulmonary edema and had been in high care at a nursing home for the…

We had a week-long Learning Review at UMN starting from 9 October with staff from Thapathali and the clusters joining in for a fruitful planning and sharing time. This annual event served as a good platform to…

A group of UMN staff joined a rally which commenced this morning to celebrate the 38th Social Service Day with an inaugural session by President Bidhya Devi Bhandari. A twenty-member subcommittee was formed by Social Welfare Council…

After the flood, people took refuge in concrete school buildings for several days until the water levels receded. When they left their flooded houses, they brought with them all that they could manage to bring, including their…

Shova Rana Magar, 35, is expecting and is only 15 days away from her big day. Just when she was taking good care of herself and doing her final preparations for the new baby, the floods came and…

Two weeks ago, the flood waters hit the river side settlement of the Rishidevs in Sunsari and damaged all the 20 houses there. In the rigid caste classifications of rural Nepali society, the Rishidevs are very low…

It was midnight night when Purna BK, a daily wage construction worker, and his wife Maya realised that the flood water had entered their mud house and the walls were beginning to come down. Frantically they began…

Baleshwar Bishwakarma and his family of Amaduwa, Sunsari, were able to receive emergency relief food packets through UMN’s partner CMC soon after the flood, which lasted a few days. As they are daily wage labourers, they did not…

Eighty-four-year-old Bhadralal Chaudhary had never seen a flood like this one in his entire life. Bhadralal of Amaduwa, Susnari lives with 17 family members. Eighty households in and around his settlement (Nargada and Harboni) are partly and…

Several days of relentless downpours last week have triggered floods and landslides in different parts of the country. According to the latest update, 91 people have died and about 38 are missing. The heavy rains have now…