by Alex Barwick | Dec 6, 2019 | Uncategorised
It’s been referred to as the Chapel or the Pastoral Care Centre. On official documents and online maps it’s the Multi Purpose Learning Centre [MPLC]. Whatever you call it, Green Pastures Hospital [GPH] celebrated the dedication of a new building which will...
by Alex Barwick | Dec 6, 2019 | Uncategorised
Every Self Help Group we meet in the poor villages around Nepalgunj shares a similar origin story. When I ask how the community responded when Milap [one of INF Australia’s NGO partners] social mobilisers first visited their community to discuss forming a group...
by Alex Barwick | Dec 4, 2019 | Uncategorised
Bright plastic bins, red or green. They’re hard to miss as we sit with communities in Rolpa District, in INF’s working area of Sunchhahari Rural Municipality. In each of the communities we visit across this rugged area, they catch the eye as people sit...
by Alex Barwick | Dec 1, 2019 | Uncategorised
Ram Maya Gharti beams as she crouches inside her “tunnel garden”. She is the first person in Gichhye Village, Rolpa District, that INF has supported with material and training to construct this open greenhouse. Protected from the elements, new crops of...
by Alex Barwick | Nov 29, 2019 | Uncategorised
High in the hills of Rolpa District, in INF’s working area of Sunchhahari Rural Municipality, I learn a new expression for the power of unity and cooperation: “Ek thuki sukhi, saya thuki nodi”. Like so many Nepali proverbs, it rings with a simple...
