BARDIYA, NEPAL: REBUILDING 77 HOUSES Project House Rebuild officially started on 15 January this year in Gulariya village of Bardiya Municipality. Together with local village leaders, we selected 62 needy families to help rebuild their destroyed homes. Today 2.5 months later, about 10 houses are completed and 50 houses are in...
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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...
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...
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...
NEPAL: MAYALPANI VILLAGE PHASE 1 - SANITATION (100 Toilets) 100 families participated in building their own eco-friendly, sustainable toilets. To our amazement and joy, the project was completed 4 months ahead of time!