Diary
Travelling in Nepal – it’s something else
Travelling in Nepal is HARD, it’s exhausting, but it’s also exhilarating and amazing. You’re in an environment surrounded by poverty and hardship but also such peace. Life outside our Western walls is so different. The things we worry about are things they don’t even...
Thamdanda Water & Sanitation Official Closing Ceremony
When Rabindra first met the community in 2018, their village was mostly rubble and ruin, the devastation they lived in following the 2016 earthquake. After the incredible Thamdanda Water Supply and Sanitation Project with 8kms of pipeline installation, water tanks,...
Women’s Empowerment Programme – helping with grace and humour
The Janamaitri Saving and Credit Cooperatives Limited, in the Panuati Municipality (12 wards) of Kavre, started with 27 members and now have 2992, with 1506 men and 1484 women. Their mission is to “provide quality financial services to the community adopting...
My heart broke and I fell in love with them
Tucked between the Chitwan jungle and the side of the main highway between India and Nepal, we found ourselves meeting these beautiful children and mothers, handing out clothing to the impoverished children that had missed out on our winter clothing run. Their...
Bhaktapur Reunion – from children to young men and women
Visiting the community for the first time in five years, so much had changed around them and to them — so many new houses, roads, and factories. The luscious green fields that had surrounded them were now dust bowls, waiting for construction to begin. There were fewer...
Keeping the children warm
It’s winter in Nepal and we quickly realised that there are a lot of children living in the village without any warm clothing or bedding. Rabindra had a fundraising drive in Kathmandu and was able to take down a lot of donated clothes. However, they were all adult...
Hard work pays off – massively!
The awesome women of Thamdanda have recently been able to celebrate a huge achievement – they got legally registered with local government as a Community Based Organization (CBO), achieving the rules and regulations required for this. This now enables them to apply...
The colourful flags – what do they mean?
The Tibetan prayer flags are used to spread prayers of good throughout the world, which in turn pleases the Gods. The Buddhist flag is traditionally flown on single poles or strung along lines on mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas, on Buddhist temples and...
Rayale Village – sticking to what we’re good at
Padam has been busy working with cooperative community groups in the Panauti Municipality, an area not too far from Thamdanda. Currently, there are two groups who we are in discussion with, with a total of 50 women. We are looking to support them in horticultural crop...
We’re returning!
I’m so excited to say that Bino and I are finally retuning to Nepal. It has been five years since we have been there. We were supposed to return at the beginning of 2020, but we all know how that worked out! We are so excited to be able to visit the communities we...