by admin | Jul 8, 2019 | Imported
On his first trip to Nepal, INF Australia’s Australian Programs Manager Steve Barnett reflects on the challenges faced by INF community staff and the strengths of their uniquely incarnational approach. When INF’s community development teams first begin to...
by Cherry Mawson | Jun 29, 2019 | Uncategorised
On her second trip to Nepal, INF Australia’s Programs Officer Cherry Mawson reflects on the love, dedication and adaptability shown by INF staff. Under the thatched roof of an open-walled home in Kapilvastu, a district bordering India, I attended a self-help group...
by Cherry Mawson | Jun 24, 2019 | Uncategorised
Yuek Ming Poon [or Ming] is INF’ s Leprosy Nursing Advisor, sent by INF Australia. Over the past year Ming has been busy working to improve coordination, training and systems at Green Pastures Hospital [GPH] and INF’s two other hospitals, to ensure leprosy patients...
by Cherry Mawson | May 29, 2019 | Uncategorised
Women in remote and rural areas of Nepal can face life and death challenges during pregnancy and labour. Entrenched societal practices disadvantage young women by leaving them out of the decision-making process – more often led by their mother-in-law or husband. Women...
by Cherry Mawson | Apr 30, 2019 | Uncategorised
Dillisara lives in a remote village in Jumla, a poor mountainous district in western Nepal. Married at the age of sixteen, she became a widow when she was only twenty-four years old, after her husband was killed in a bike accident. She was left with three young...
