As CLN Nepali partner Neel recently said, “Daily life is back to normal and everyone looks happy!” Our programs and our friends in Nepal are all doing well, and things are finally (mostly) getting back to normal. Sharing highlights from CLN’s work in 2022, with full...
Giving Tuesday Dil Kumar Tamang proudly shows off his coffee in bloom. Our coffee has bloomed, a massive COVID surge in Nepal has passed, our kids are back in school, summer floodwaters have receded, and a new school hostel is open. Overall, 2021 has been a...
In the months before COVID we funded a tutoring class for all 55 Grade 10 students at Terse School. This year, right before COVID closed all the schools in Nepal, the children took their exams and the school had the highest scores in the district!! What a year 2020...
Management committee of a coffee farmers group. CLN has helped organize the farmer groups and get them registered with the local government. This is Year 4 of the Organic Coffee Project. We have added 80 new farmers in the...
Clockwise from top: Children’s Home kids, coffee farmer, coffee beans, warm welcome in a coffee village. Wow--what a year! We have seen our first children graduate high school (at Grade 10 in Nepal). Our coffee sample scored 84 in initial US taste tests for specialty...
Let’s celebrate!! CLN has been working in Nepal for 10 years—and it’s because of YOU that we can celebrate this success! With your support, we’ve granted $326,889 over the last decade and have turned an initial desire to improve the lives of rural...
Dismantling the temporary school in Batase and rebuilding it in a nearby field so that classes can continue as a new school is slowly constructed. As we look back over the year, we’re feeling grateful and inspired to witness the blossoming of our Nepal...
Jyoti Magar (right), orphaned at age 10, completed high school but has only been able to find work as a housemaid without higher education credentials. Now receiving gem-cutting training for free, she will soon begin work as a gem cutter and as a training assistant...
SODEC office construction just started in September… …and was wrapping up in November! Painting and finishing will be completed this month. Director Parshu Dahal and the team at Society Development Center (SODEC) have been one of our main partners for many...
CLN and local non-profit partner Society Development Center (SODEC) initiated the Organic Coffee program two years ago in the village area where Director Parshu Dahal grew up. Then as now, people walk 7-8 hours in order to sell the few extra vegetables they might have...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFoqA4_62AU VIDEO: Take a tour of life at our Children’s Home TEAM Nepal Director Neel Thakuri has been committed to children and education in his village area for more than 25 years. Together we have supported construction of a central...
Farmer Khadga Bahadur Oli proudly shows off his flowering 3-year-old almond tree to SODEC field staff Ghanashyam GC (left) who is visiting to discuss soil and plant management. CLN and local non-profit partner Society Development Center (SODEC) began the...
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