Ratna Mani has 6 mature almond trees--like the one he’s standing with here. They produced over 20 lbs of nuts this year. With 2 children and a shortage of food, the family ate all 20 lbs. to supplement to their regular diet and provide a good source of protein. We are...
Maya hugging Sushan, one of her little brothers at the orphanage. Maya is 12 years old and studying in Grade 6 this year. She has had a difficult few years emotionally—a heart surgery, a construction accident at school that killed her dear friend and other children in...
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Deana talks with farmers about finding a market for organic coffee. We stay personally involved with our projects and regularly visit farmers in remote areas of Nepal. On the most recent field visit, CLN donors Bill Winfield and Armanita Dhooghe joined Deana for a...
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...
Our Children’s Home in the rural foothills of the Himalayan mountains has been successfully operating for 12 years and is home to some of the sweetest kids you could ever know. It costs only $1400 to sponsor one child’s food, uniforms, books, education and living...
Top Producing Coffee Farmer in 2019: Dil Kumar Tamang.Photo credit: A. Dhooghe Coffee farmer Dil Kumar Tamang sold around $2000 of coffee this year from 600 trees. These first trees were planted in 2015, and he now has 4000 younger trees that will begin to produce in...
Children's Home - Class 10 Graduates! Congratulations to Jamuna, Krishna, and Ganga on passing their high school exam!! Jamuna, Krishna, and Ganga back in 2009 in the early days of the Children’s Home At the children’s home this year, we had our first Grade 10...
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...
With 2017 almost behind us, we are looking ahead to next year with excitement...Plans for 2018: Construction of a grain mill to make the children’s home more self-sustaining and to improve villagers’ lives in the surrounding community ($9,000)Provide gap funding for...
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...
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