Kismat Pun, 22, from Ghunma village of Rukum East lost his father in 2015. It was tough for his mother to survive, so in 2018 she remarried. Kismat then started living at his stepfather’s home and left…
Daunne Devi farmers’ group in Pratappur, Nawalparasi West, are happy with the practical learning they received from the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) farmer field school on cucumber and bottle gourd. The weekly sessions over 16 weeks covered…
Anju Khati, 40, is now an entrepreneur from Bajhang. Dreaming big, hard-working Anju spends her time in the traditional handloom weaving and selling yarn. A few years back, things got tough for Anju’s family. Her husband lost…
Tiju Yadav, aged 54, from Kapilvastu has finally solved his farming woes. Previously, he faced problems as he couldn’t find chemical fertiliser from the market when he needed it. Now he has been successfully engaged in commercial…
Some villages in Soru Rural Municipality are still deprived of electricity, which also prevents them from running a mill. Consequently, most women here still prepare rice, millet, and corn using the Okhal, also known as Dhiki, the…
Sunita Chaudhary, a mother with five daughters, couldn’t celebrate her children’s birthdays as she would have wished. She lived in a society in Nawalparasi West where preference for a boy child over a girl is deeply entrenched.…
Bungal Municipality is facing lowering of groundwater levels as a result of recent changes in the local climate. To address this, 35 water recharge pits were dug in two locations, Wards 4 and 5 of Bungal Municipality,…
Due to lack of job opportunities and income generation sources, most of Masta Rural Municipality’s men go to India to work for their household’s main source of income. But, the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdowns forced all migrants…
A major achievement of the Mugu Community Transformation project which ended in December 2019 was the construction of a 329m-long irrigation canal. Our partner KCDC gave USD 1,730 to build the concrete canal. Community people contributed USD…
In a community of 106 Musahar families in Sunsari district, no-one had a toilet or had their birth registered. Their landless situation combined with poor education (7.3% literacy; less than 50% of primary-age children in school) have…
