A bunch of young peer educators in Sunwal, Nawalparasi recently participated in a three days training facilitated by UMN’s health team leader Tara Nath Acharya and health manager Rakshya Niroula. They were trained on Adolescent Sexual Reproductive…

Yesterday we wrapped up the two-day workshop on “community filming from a mobile device.” It was facilitated by Gary Wornell who is a visual consultant working with Tear Fund. With his extensive experience in photography and filming,…

Swabalambi Basic School of The Deaf which is a residential school for students who are hearing impaired in Nilkantha, Dhading had its first ever training on making Improved Washable Sanitary Pad (IWP) in the second week of…

We are very sad to report the passing away of Dr. Dick Harding on 12 December 2016 at the age of 79. He died in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA where he and his wife lived since retiring…

Micah Nepal, one of UMN’s partners started a new programme in 2016, ‘Peace Building Through Mediation’ with the goal of establishing a new group of inter-faith mediators who will be able to help in resolving issues on…

Kathmandu National Center for AIDS and STI Control with the support of various supporting agencies including UMN commemorated 29th World AIDS Day by organising an event in the City Hall which was chaired by our honorable Health…

The Interfaith Peace Network (IPN), Morang, based in Sunsari, organised an inter-faith workshop with its partner Community Development Forum on 24 November 2016.  The aim of the workshop was to disseminate interfaith peace experiences into national level,…

The four-day participatory gender and development workshop for UMN’s Thapathali programme staff was completed yesterday. 18 staff actively participation in the workshop titled, “Participatory Gender and Development Training.” UMN’s Gender Advisor Hazel Wong who facilitated the workshop…

We often don’t see twenty UMN team leaders putting together cardboard boxes, paper, and empty pringle cases. But that’s exactly what was happening at UMN’s offices yesterday. Twenty men and women were working together to build scrap…

After the earthquakes of April and May 2015, education for nearly one million children in Nepal was in jeopardy with over 32,000 classrooms destroyed. 80% of school buildings collapsed in Dhading. Post-earthquake, it became imperative to make…