Stories

Journey toward self-sufficiency

Sharmila Theeng from Dhapakhel had faced challenges with epilepsy, but she was determined to provide for her family. With support from the Building Strong Families project, Sharmila and her husband Dil Kumar started a restaurant after attending training on topics such as money management and business planning. Since opening the restaurant with the furniture, utensils, […]

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“From Household to Regular School”

Sanija Rai, a 10-year-old girl from the remote village eastern part of Nepal called, Dangmaya, Bhojpur, lives with her extended family comprising 11 members. Among them are her grandparents, parents, four brothers, three sisters (8 siblings), and herself. Her father works as a farmer, while her mother takes care of the household responsibilities. However, the

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Ganga’s Life Transformed through Training & Support

28-year-old Ganga Chettri is a single mother of a 7-year-old girl living in Lele, Lalitpur. Four years ago, Ganga was living with her husband and daughter at Illam but one day out of the blue the father left the family. Although her husband left without any notice, Ganga has a suspicion that he left the

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Earthquake Resistant Houses using ICSEB

[gdlr_quote align=”center” ]ICSEB: A True Blessing![/gdlr_quote] Interlocking Compressed Stabilized Earth Block (ICSEB) machines, gifted by the Thailand Operation Blessing Foundation (CBN), have been a great blessing to the earthquake hit families and communities who lost their houses and schools. It is a very cheap, locally usable technology that can build earthquake resistant houses in a

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Water Pipeline System – Safe drinking water in Keraghari

Water is a global issue. Around the world, one person dies every 15 seconds from diseases related to poor water supply, sanitation and hygiene. Most of the problems are caused by lack of access to improved drinking water sources and sanitation systems. A person can survive for longer without food than can without water. One of

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Pradip Pathak – Disable Person since Birth

Pradip Pathak is born in poor family, he has four brothers and two sisters. His mother is also arthritis patient and father cannot do work now because of old age. His home was destroy because of devastating earthquake so now they are living in small cottage. He completed his 10+2 study with the help of

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