CASE STORIES
Hopeful after recovery
Story from Rupandehi under Health
Until two years ago, Puja from Rupandehi District was doing fine. Her husband was with her, she did not have to worry at all about her family and life was going well for her. Life took a toll on her when she lost her husband. She had to take responsibility for her household and on the other hand, the pain of losing her loved one was too much for her to bear.
Read More+Road Brings Comfort
Story from Rupandehi under Good Governance
Om Bahadur Saru from Nawalparasi is the coordinator of the Ward Citizen Forum. He participated in the Participatory Planning Process facilitators' training organised by UMN's partner Isai Samaj Nawalparasi (ISN) and learned to identify the community issues. He also gained knowledge...
Read More+Building Bridges
Story from Rupandehi under Integral Development
Bhim Bahadur Rana, 54, from Nawalparasi, pastors a small congregation in Khasuwa village. Bhim tells us about a very sad mishap in his village. "Last year, one student was swept away in the river when he tried to wade through the swollen waters. The suspension bridge constructed a decade...
Read More+I Became an Effective Facilitator
Story from Rupandehi under Advocacy
My name is Rupa Rana. I have been working on the Ward Citizen Forum and as a social mobiliser of the Poverty Alleviation Fund, a government-funded project in Dhaubadhi VDC, Nawalparasi. These two roles have given me the opportunity to work closely with social...
Read More+A reason to live in this world
Story from Rupandehi under Good Governance
After the death of her husband, 28-year-old Yanu Maya GC found it very hard to survive and provide for her two children. She worked as a house labourer in her village, Tilotama. To add to her troubles, people in the community began to thinking negatively...
Read More+I am Kausilya
Story from Rupandehi under Peacebuilding
Twenty-two-year-old Kausilya Chaudhary belongs to the Madhesi Terai community and lives with her family in Rupandehi. She has one son and one daughter. She is a good facilitator of her adolescent group. In her part of the Terai there is a tradition that daughters-in-law are called by the birth place name or name...
Read More+Buying Time
Story from Rupandehi under Integral Development
Time is one of the most precious resources village women in Nepal have. With many competing demands - family, household tasks, field work and income earning - women typically work very long days. They'll be up before the sun rises, and are the last to seek their beds in the evenings.
Read More+AHT Story
Story from Rupandehi under Peacebuilding
The term "Anti-Human Trafficking" conjures up images of risky raids on seedy warehouses or shady premises in the red light district. That is certainly part of the story, but UMN's Anti-Human Trafficking projects approach the issue from a different starting-point, that of prevention.
Read More+24 - hour Birthing Unit at Dubiya Sub-Health Post
Story from Rupandehi under Health
Ardharbhoot Cooperative is one of UMN's partners in Rupandehi. It works in Dubiya VDC, Kapilvastu district, implementing health programmes in its VDC where more than 60% of the population are from the Tharu (an ethnic minority) community. The VDC is divided into two parts by a river. There are five wards on the other side of the river, where there is a Sub-health Post in Rangai village.
Read More+Gone Fishing
Story from Rupandehi under Sustainable Livelihoods
Nepal is a country of a multitude of different castes and ethnic groups. Many of these experience discrimination and neglect, and are unable to access the resources they need.
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