"Learn, Believe, Practice, and Stick to it"—A Simple Recipe For ChangeChanging behaviour is difficult and often seems impossible, especially if it is surrounded by a great deal of perception, misconception, traditional values, and social pressures. However,[...]
On a recent tour of one of the many sites of our Suaahara project, which empowers women, their young children and their communities to build better lives through better nutrition, I met Bindu Bogati. She and her 13 months old son, Sushant looked healthy and[...]
Suaahara works with all female community health volunteers (FCHVs) along with motivated field supervisors to promote key behaviors for “1,000 day” households including pregnant women, mothers of children under two years of age and their families. [...]
Mrs. Sobita Rokaya, one of our beneficiaries from Chainpur Municipality had a baby girl aged 3 months when she was taking Homestead Food Production training. At an instance during training when she heard that children should be exclusively breastfed for 6[...]
On a recent visit to Khiratadi, a rural village in the Bajhang District in the mountainous north-western region Nepal, I came across a very pleasant surprise. I was there to monitor progress of local participants in the Suaahara program, the nation-wide the[...]
When the massive 7.8 earthquake hit Nepal on April 25, 2015, Ranju Basnet, a 20 year old mother in the rural, mountainous district of Dolakha, was outside working in her vegetable garden. Seconds into the earthquake, right in front of her eyes, her[...]
When one enters the house in the quiet Kathmandu neighborhood where Helen Keller International-Nepal is located, the buzz and activity of the busy office is suddenly countered by the reassuring calm of Sharada Adhikari, who sits at the front desk. Her soft[...]
On June 15, 2014, I headed to Banjh VDC-3 to visit some of the households of our beneficiaries to observe the poultry rearing[...] 
"Learn, Believe, Practice, and Stick to it"—A Simple Recipe For ChangeChanging behaviour is difficult and often seems impossible, especially if it is surrounded by a great deal of perception, misconception, traditional values, and social pressures. However,[...] 
On a recent tour of one of the many sites of our Suaahara project, which empowers women, their young children and their communities to build better lives through better nutrition, I met Bindu Bogati. She and her 13 months old son, Sushant looked healthy and[...] 
Suaahara works with all female community health volunteers (FCHVs) along with motivated field supervisors to promote key behaviors for “1,000 day” households including pregnant women, mothers of children under two years of age and their families. [...] 
Mrs. Sobita Rokaya, one of our beneficiaries from Chainpur Municipality had a baby girl aged 3 months when she was taking Homestead Food Production training. At an instance during training when she heard that children should be exclusively breastfed for 6[...] 
On a recent visit to Khiratadi, a rural village in the Bajhang District in the mountainous north-western region Nepal, I came across a very pleasant surprise. I was there to monitor progress of local participants in the Suaahara program, the nation-wide the[...] 
When the massive 7.8 earthquake hit Nepal on April 25, 2015, Ranju Basnet, a 20 year old mother in the rural, mountainous district of Dolakha, was outside working in her vegetable garden. Seconds into the earthquake, right in front of her eyes, her[...] 
When one enters the house in the quiet Kathmandu neighborhood where Helen Keller International-Nepal is located, the buzz and activity of the busy office is suddenly countered by the reassuring calm of Sharada Adhikari, who sits at the front desk. Her soft[...] 
