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...
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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...