BARDIYA, NEPAL: REBUILDING 62 HOUSES 3 weeks after rebuilding work commenced, foundation work for 10 houses is completed! This is faster than expected and is a good indicator of the people’s zeal for the project and their capacity as a community. To encourage self-help and co-payment, families are...
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KERAGHARI, NEPAL: BRIGHT VILLAGE BUILDING MOVEMENT Our vision of empowering the poor and shifting them from welfare to work is taking root in 5 villages in Nepal. After we led Mayalpani village in carrying out a simple 100-toilet Sanitation project in 2009, four surrounding villages have joined in and formed a 10-member...
NEPAL faced a particularly challenging 2014. In April when the annual season for Everest expeditions began, 16 Sherpa guides perished in an avalanche. In October, at the start of the trekking season, nearly 30 foreign trekkers and their local guides died in an unexpected blizzard in the Annapurna mountain range. This tragedy...
FAITH GARDEN TRAINING NEPAL Finally! Here’s the long overdue update of our works on the field! (A lot has been happening lately and it’s a challenge to sit down and pen thoughts down – it’s a good challenge, no doubt) In April 2012, 30 community leaders participated in our very first 10-day Food Always In The House...
BARDIYA, NEPAL PHASE 1: SANITATION (20-TOILET PILOT PROJECT) After conducting a preliminary survey in Bardiya in October 2011, we embarked on a 20-toilet pilot project in April 2012 to assess the community’s readiness and capacity for development projects. Before work started, we took time to explain to them our ethos for...
F.A.I.T.H. (Food-Always-In-The-Home) GARDENING NEPAL The whole process from land preparation to harvest takes just about 2 months Food-Always-in-the-Home (F.A.I.T.H.) Gardening is a concept developed by Asian Rural Life Development Centre in Davao City, Philippines in 1974. Their simple and effective model for sustainable...