Nepal
Water after the earthquake

LWF repairs water supply systems in Nepal
Water after the earthquake
22 March 2017
LWF repairs water supply systems in Nepal
The dream of freedom
8 March 2017
A former house servant becomes an advocate against bonded labor
Ninety masons trained to rebuild in rural Nepal
13 January 2017
LWF and Islamic Relief Worldwide train builders in quake-proof construction (LWI) - Tashi Tamang is busy. The 30-year-old mason from Ramche in Nepal’s central Rasuwa district has just finished the two-storey building of Seti Bhume High School in Ramche. ...
A curse of hate and superstition
8 December 2016
An LWF supported women’s cooperative against gender-based violence in Nepal (LWI) - When neighbors attack her verbally, Rita Lama now presses the record button on her mobile phone.  “The recording is evidence if I have to fight a case in court,” she ...
Back to school after the earthquake
18 November 2016
LWF helps Nepal’s children resume education It’s a whole day’s walk for 16-year-old Sanu Lama and her friends to reach their school in Baramchi, Nepal. Sanu lives in the village of Gumba, somewhere in the Himalaya mountains of Nepal’s Sindhupalchowk ...
World Food Day: better technology improves grain mill yield
14 October 2016
Promoting livelihoods in mid-western Nepal (LWI) - Karna BK, 36, knows what it means to be hungry. Born in Dailekh, he was 10 years old when his father passed away. His mother re-married, and he was taken in by is maternal uncle. In the uncle’s house there ...
International Day of the Girl Child
10 October 2016
Girls aim high in earthquake-affected Gatlang (LWI) – Thirteen-year-old Nima Chhiyog Lama still dreams about the small cozy room in her old house. A warm place, her family around her and the wood fire burning in the kitchen - much like many other houses ...
Closer to the goal of eradicating bonded labor
19 August 2016
LWF Nepal staff member dreams of the day all Haliya will be free (LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Nepal staff member Hukum Sarki dreams of seeing the Haliya, or bonded labor system, totally eradicated.
Rebuilding homes and heritage in Nepal one year on
24 April 2016
One year ago a 7.8 magnitude earthquake devastated central and Eastern Nepal. A year later, with the help of LWF communities are being re-built. While millions of earthquake survivors will spend another monsoon season in temporary shelters, mountain communities ...
Rebuilding Sanogoan one brick at a time
14 April 2016
The village of Sanogoan is a small settlement of Newar, the historical inhabitants of the Kathmandu valley. Sanogoan sits at the edge of Kathmandu Valley. It was entirely destroyed by the April 2015 earthquake. Most of its inhabitants currently live in tents ...
Strong women re-building Nepal
7 April 2016
“Brave the outside world”
“We will not abandon you”
21 March 2016
ACT Alliance General Secretary offers encouragement to Nepal earthquake survivors   (LWI) - “I will share your stories with the rest of the world so that you will be supported in rebuilding your lives. We will not abandon you.” With that message, ACT ...
Brick by brick, earthquake survivors rebuild their homes
27 January 2016
Nepal: Reconstruction starts in model villages
Nepal: Healing unseen wounds
5 January 2016
Psychosocial support for earthquake survivors (LWI) - It is Saturday morning in Ghusel, a village almost completely destroyed by the earthquake that struck Nepal half a year ago. From the village square the sound of a harmonium can be heard. Soon a tabla ...
Disability is not inability – one woman’s story
3 December 2015
LWF Nepal supports networks that empower people living with disabilities (LWI) – Growing up for Balarni Chaudhary was difficult. She has only one leg and lost her father when she was very young. She felt she was a burden to her family. But today the 21-year-old, ...
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