CASE STORIES
Active and Aware Parents
Story from Rukum under Education
On the whole, parents in the remote villages of Rukum East had little awareness about providing support and care to their children for their better future and education. Most parents took very little or no interest in their children’s studies as they were not literate...
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Learning is Fun
Story from Rukum under Education
There are now 300 students enrolled from Early Childhood Development classes to Grade 8 at Shree Saraswati Basic School. But earlier, this school which is located in a remote village of Shyala, Rukum West, survived in a poor condition without any safe classroom management. Without any compound wall, even the cattle...
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Enjoying Learning
Story from Rukum under Education
When seven-year-old Karuna Budha Magar was first admitted to school, she was surprised to hear her teachers speak in a strange language. Later she found out that it was the Nepali language. She is a Grade 2 student at Tribeni Secondary School in Rukum. Karuna speaks Kham...
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Friday is flour day
Story from Rukum under Health
Every second Friday, Manisha Pariyar 24, is busy preparing super-flour for her 18-month-old son. The flour, a nutritious mix made from three kinds of cereals (maize, wheat and soybean), is a proven nutritious food for young children. Developed by UMN in the 1970s, super-flour is now widely used...
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I've earned more than my husband!
Story from Rukum under Sustainable Livelihoods
It is around end of the spring season. Seed-growing farmers in Kholagaun look very busy with their daily chores of harvesting and threshing their cash crops - onion, radish, and peas - in the field. Parbati Jaisi, 26, a woman from this village, was even smarter this year, as she was able to thresh her onion and radish crops a few days earlier, and sell those for NRS 45,000 (nearly AUD 600), which is four times more than last year's sale.
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Soap Opera
Story from Rukum under Sustainable Livelihoods
Outbreaks of diarrhoea don't usually qualify as disasters, but they are a real threat to remote communities in districts like Rukum, in the middle hills area of Nepal. Although often caused by unsafe water, poor hygiene also plays a part. During a recent outbreak, UMN's Rukum Cluster team distributed 32,500 cakes of anti-bacterial soap, donated by World Vision.
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Fighting Poverty, Together
Story from Rukum under Peacebuilding
On a sunny hillside in Rukum, a group of women in bright cotton saris are working in a field - a commonplace scene. But this is a remarkable group of women.
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