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[...]