Archive for 'Nepal'
Not much has happened in my placement this week. Unfortunately the school has closed for two weeks due to the cold weather, which in my opinion is still much warmer than England's winter. I feel fairly lucky to have been placed in Rupandehi, as my placement is pretty close to Lumbini, the birthplace of the [...]
After spending two nights in Butwal, we were taken to our allocated communities on the 1st January - quite literally a new start to the year. In my community - Manpakadi - I was pleasantly surprised to find that many people can speak either broken or nearly fluent English. The community is fairly spread out, [...]
The last three weeks of training in Nepal has absolutely flown by. I've learnt so much and got to know everybody really well in a short space of time; it's a shame that I'm not going to be working with them during the next two months. I've been allocated to the Man Pakadi community in the Rupandehi district bordering [...]
My name's Matt Gluyas and I'm embarking on what could be a life-changing trip to Nepal with Restless Development, as part of the International Citizen Service (ICS) programme. I chose to apply for an ICS placement because of the skills and opportunities it could present to me, both in country and when I get home. [...]
My name is Simon Lucas and I've been working on energy, agriculture, roads and forestry projects in poor countries for the last 20 years. I'm also a keen white water kayaker, so when I heard of a job in Nepal with DFID I leapt at it - who could want for more? A great job [...]
Indians are used to coping with the effects of a variable climate. So many of these effects are related to the availability and quality of water – for agriculture, domestic consumption, industry, power generation and other uses – that water is viewed by many experts as the most important source of vulnerability to climate change. [...]
We’ve had a bit of a blogging hiatus given the pre-election period in the UK, but it’s nice to be back online! Things with Nepal’s peace process have gone up and down since I last blogged, but unfortunately I don’t really have much positive progress to report. Last week was a week of strikes and [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged, but lots has been happening here in Nepal. If I’d written before Christmas, I think that my blog would have been pretty downbeat. Up until almost the very end of the year there was very little progress on the peace process and it was getting harder to be [...]
As you may have seen from the press, Geri Halliwell (ex-Spice Girl) was here a few weeks back as a UNFPA Ambassador to help raise awareness of women’s issues in Nepal. While here, Geri helped launch a Violence Against Women campaign together with the Prime Minister of Nepal, visited a number of programmes run by the UN [...]
I wrote about how climate change is affecting Nepal a few weeks ago, when I was lamenting that the monsoon was late and then, again lamenting (!) that the rains had finally arrived – too late for a lot of the rice to be planted, and causing chaos and misery due to flooding and landslides. [...]
