Year: 2016

A global experience shows that psychosocial support is crucial for the long-term recovery of earthquake survivors and their communities. Nepal is one of the highly earthquake vulnerable countries. After the earthquakes, Nepal started to see psychosocial support as one of the post-disaster priorities but felt the lack of proper training and counseling.  (more…)

Sanu Bajracharya, 48, of Shankharapur Municipality Kathmandu District is one of the several victims of April 25th earthquake. Just as to many others, the natural calamity took many things from him. He was a son of a farmer and holding that profession till now. After the devastating earthquakes, Bajracharya’s family sheltered inside the tarpaulin sheet for three weeks, later he found a room to rent. He shifted there with his wife, son and daughter-in-law. But after a month of living in a rented room, the house owner asked him to move to another house as they needed that for themselves. (more…)

Revived Sanitation Journey - “Me and my family felt uncomfortable and ashamed to defecate in open place” Sabita Parajuli, Age 31, Batal, Ugrachandi Nala VDC, Kavre District, Nepal  (more…)

Under financial support of Water Aid Nepal and EAWAG, Nala WASH improvement project is being implemented in Nala. The situation of sanitation in the VDC has changed drastically along with change in behavioural aspect of Nala communities after the intervention of CIUD implemented WASH project. Ugrachandi Nala was declared ODF in 22 March, 2013 and Decentralized Waste Water Treatment System (DEWATS) came into operation in the same year. (more…)

The National Sanitation Week was celebrated for 2 days under Nala Integrated WASH Project. It was celebrated in four schools of Nala, the schools were Prabhat Lower Secondary School, Arunodaya Primary School, Shree Nanda Devi Primary School and ChandeswariHigher Secondary School. The program was conducted by Mr. BiswanathShrestha, Ms. SandhyaRanjeet and Ms. Reecha Piya. (more…)

On the occasion of Menstrual Hygiene Day, two days program was conducted in Kuntabesi by CIUD with financial support of WaterAid. Essay Writing Competition was organized on the first day on the topic ‘Role of men in menstruation’ in which 23 students (both male and female) participated from the schools where CIUD is intervening WASH Project. One and half hour time was given to complete their essay and the word limit was 400. After Essay Writing Competition an orientation session was conducted by Ms. Reecha Piya on Menstrual Hygiene Management. (more…)

Charlotte Flew from WaterAid UK, accompanied by WaterAid Nepal and CIUD team members, visited CIUD’s project sites at Kavre district. Ms Flew and the team observed a water supply scheme at Bulle in Nala. She also interacted with the members of the Bulle Water Users’ Committee and took the necessary information. (more…)

On April 25, 2015, an earthquake, magnitude of 7.8 Richter scale, shook the country of Nepal causing massive devastation to the houses, roads, heritage sites, public buildings and school and college buildings. The death toll would have been more if it were in any other school days than Saturday. The ill-fated disaster was followed by hundreds of major and minor aftershocks that caused further damage to the already weakened infrastructures. The earthquakes took the lives of more than 8500 people, thousands of injuries and made millions homeless. (more…)

Bijaya Narayan Maharjan, 38, from Shankharapur Municipality-8, of Kathmandu District, is a constructor by profession. He recalled his memory saying, “We were at Church on 25th April. Thanks to Jesus that we survived. If it wasn’t Saturday, we would not have been able to survive in our old house.” (more…)