Gandaki Boarding School (Pokhara) celebrated 50 years of educational achievement last week, culminating in a happy reunion of former staff and students on Sunday. The day was filled with dance, music, poems, film clips, speeches, and thousands…
Fuel shortages have been growing worse and worse. For the last few weeks, the number of trucks bringing essential petrol, diesel and gas into the country have been reduced to a trickle, because of disputes over the…
By Sunday evening, Nepal will have its long-awaited new Constitution. The Constitutional Assembly completed a four-day voting process on Wednesday, approving the Constitution by 507 votes to 25. (Fifty-seven members of various Madesh-based groups boycotted the meeting.)…
A wet and watery weekend for Wayne Martin will mean a repaired water system in earthquake-affected Dhading district. Wayne who, with his wife Tanuja, served at the United Mission Hospital Tansen, is also a keen kayaker. Recently,…
The Forgiveness and Reconciliation programme run jointly by Micah Network Nepal and UMN has had enormous impact in the lives of many Christians, enabling them to find inner peace and restore harmonious relationships through exercising forgiveness. After…
In the aftermath of a disaster, emergency relief is just the first step. Getting families and communities back to work is vital, so providing them with what they need to do that is a priority. If folk…
I thought my visit to North Dhading would be the worst of my life, but I was wrong! My trip to South Dhading was even more difficult. We went to Simtar, in the southern part of Mahadevsthan…
I must confess that our team chose Reegaun for our assessment trip, as we thought it would be easier and safer than other VDCs, but this was not the case! Just like the other teams, we had…
As a gender specialist, I am quite sensitive to gender issues when I meet them in the field. In some of the villages we visited, I noticed that the men slaughtered, cooked and distributed the meat dishes…
It took us three days just to get to Lapa! I started getting a little worried about this trip when I heard about the new route, the landslides along the way, the damaged trails, the long and…
