Education Nepal Project #23822

Improving rural schools in Nepal

by Child Rescue Nepal

Project Report | Sep 21, 2021
Update on the Covid situation in Nepal

By Joanna Bega | Chief Executive

Our team have been distributing emergency food

Whilst in much of Nepal life is back to normal, there are worrying signs that infections are rising again. Schools remain shut and hospital wards are full. A patchy testing regime means that the full extent of the problem is largely unknown. In addition, vaccines are in short supply and only a small percentage of the population have been lucky enough to receive one – let alone two.

However over the past few months, thanks to the generosity of people like you, we have been able to feed 770 families. We have also worked in partnership with other organisations like the Nepal Red Cross to distribute thousands of facemasks, gloves, oximeters and bottles of sanitiser to people in seven different districts.

We are so grateful for your help which has enabled us to respond practically and quickly to help children and families in Nepal. In some cases the food parcels have quite literally saved lives, as you will read in Kalika's story below.

Kalika's story

My name is Kalika* and I am 40 years old. My husband and I have two daughters and a son. I have a disability in my legs, so it is hard for me to work. Sometimes I wash dishes for my neighbour. Sadly since Covid I have not been able to work, and my husband has lost his job at the brick kiln. When lockdown started and we both lost our jobs, I started to think that God does not like poor people. That was when our anguish started. We were out of food and didn’t have enough savings to even buy one kilogramme of rice. When our small children started saying “we are hungry” we were in so much pain as we didn’t know how we could survive.

When we were out of options, I sold my earrings for 4,000 NPR (£25), which were a wedding gift from my husband. With that money I bought food to save my children’s lives, but it lasted no longer than a month.

Then I heard that there was food support coming and we received rice and lentils and beans. I cried because I was so grateful. I told the team that my stove will burn in my house for two days and we will have a full stomach without any stress. Before this support, we had more fear of dying by hunger than from Covid. From today onwards we will not have any problem with food. We know we can survive.

Kalika and her family now have enough food

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May 26, 2021
Nepal is being overwhelmed by Covid-19

By Joanna Bega | Chief Executive

Patients being treated on the pavement

Dear friends

As the UK and the USA start to open up, thanks to successful vaccine programmes, we can quite rightly feel optimistic about our future. We will be seeing friends and family again, and starting to cautiously make holiday plans. But right now in Nepal, away from our headlines, the country is facing a horrendous onslaught of Covid-19.

The more contagious, more deadly version that has swept across India has surged through the open border with Nepal, causing widespread death and suffering.

Just last week we were asked to take in two young brothers whose parents had both died of Covid. In the end another organisation was able to take them in, but we are expecting more requests in the days to come.

"Nepal is struggling to contain an explosion in Covid-19 cases, as fears grow that the situation in the Himalayan country may be as bad, if not worse, than in neighbouring India, with which it shares a long and porous border. Following warnings by health officials earlier this week that the country was on the brink of losing control of its outbreak, Nepal has appealed for urgent international help." - The Guardian, 6 May 2021.

When I spoke to my colleague Jamuna, the overwhelming sense was one of fear. On the television each day doctors are saying that there are no more hospital beds, medicine or oxygen. Jamuna sees desperate appeals on Facebook for ambulances and oxygen. I can’t imagine what it feels like to see Coronavirus sweeping your country, knowing that if you or your family get seriously ill, you must manage alone.

Our team’s first priority has been to make sure all the children in our care are safe, as well as those who have been reunited with their families. After that, they have requested safety equipment for rural communities such as masks, sanitiser and gloves. Everything we can do to keep people safe and stop the spread will make a real difference. In addition, we know from the previous lockdown that when people can’t earn a daily wage, they soon run out of food, so we are preparing hundreds of emergency food parcels.

We need to raise funds and we need to raise them fast. Please give if you are able to. I know that you will want to help us do everything we can for our friends in Nepal at this critical time.

Thank you

Joanna Bega
Chief Executive

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Feb 1, 2021
Supporting schools as they re-open in Nepal

By Joanna Bega | Chief Executive

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