Thousands of miles of rivers weave through Nepal, supporting both the country’s natural flora and fauna and the livelihoods of many communities. In the west, the Karnali is the longest river in the country, with expansive and turbulent segments as well as calm waters. Earlier this year, in the western flatlands of Badabaika, of Krishnapur ...
Man Bahadur Chaudhari from Bisanpur, Kailali is a known face not only in his community but also around other nearby communities. He shares that around 25 years ago life was very different and difficult for him. The frequent flooding in his village would cut his fertile land and because he was unable to self-sustain, he ...
Bhagiram Chaudhari remembers the devastating flood from 14 years ago as one of the most dreadful events in his life. The water level increased drastically and took no time to enter the houses. Scared and uninformed about what to do, he shares, “No one looked after us then”. The flooding was an annual event in ...
Mercy Corps Nepal provides PPEs and COVID prevention kits to front line workers Sirens blaring, Ganesh Joshi drenched in sweat inside his PPE, is navigating the streets of Kanchanpur, transporting a critical patient in his ambulance to the district hospital. He and his fellow ambulance drivers, around 9 of them in Bhimdatta municipality get ...
With lack of testing facilities in remote mountainous districts of Karnali, undocumented COVID-19 cases are higher: fortunately critical cases remains low After crossing the mighty Karnali on a ropeway in Gamghadi, Mugu – the only way to haul goods across the river to the surrounding villages and Humla – the operator when asked about the ...
As Nepal braces for the second wave of COVID-19, Mercy Corps Nepal team have launched an immediate response in its working districts of Sudurpaschim and Karnali Province. Currently, MCN has provided masks, face shields, sanitizers, PPE and bottled water to provincial health clusters and local government. Mercy Corps is also responding to the immediate needs ...
After the rapid assessment for a quick pulse check of the communities of STEM II participants, the project conducted a second round of assessment with a larger sample population to obtain a clearer idea of the situation at the field level. Entering the seventh week of the lockdown, this assessment was carried out with an ...
The STEM II project (Supporting the Education of Marginalised Girls) was funded by UK aid through the Girls’ Education Challenge. The project implemented a number of activities to ensure that out-of-school girls had work-ready skills and better access to income generating activities. These included providing training in financial literacy and business skills, linking girls to ...
The STEM II project (Supporting the Education of Marginalised Girls) was funded by UK aid through the Girls’ Education Challenge. Since 2017 it supported marginalised girls to stay in school and access better quality education, leading to improved literacy and numeracy outcomes. The ‘in-school’ cohort was made up of girls studying at STEM II’s 30 ...
The STEM II project (Supporting the Education of Marginalised Girls) was funded by UK aid through the Girls’ Education Challenge. Findings from the project’s baseline report uncovered incidents of harassment in schools by teachers and of girls being bullied by boys on their way home. In response, the project introduced a series of activities designed ...
