Our kids ready for school! At the Children’s Home, our 23 kids can be found doing homework or checking on the chickens, while the staff are working in the organic garden, cooking, and taking care of the goats, among a multitude of other tasks. Boys and girls do their...
Wishing you an inspiring start to 2017! Deana in San Francisco, Nancy in Lake Tahoe, and Jen in Colorado with her husband Erik and new baby girl! We are proud to be celebrating Changing Lives Nepal 9th anniversary this January! Our hearts are filled with...
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...
A woman shows off a Compressed Earth Brick. Will it be the natural building block of the future? Gyalthum College is a vision for the future of Nepal: it will be built predominantly with local mud (compressed into earth bricks), provide training to local laborers on...
Namaste and Hello! We’re excited to tell you about the great progress Changing Lives Nepal programs have accomplished this year! Even as Nepal continues to grapple with the aftermath of the earthquake and political power struggles, some bright lights of hope and...
The long days of summer are here, and we have a short update for you with good news on our projects. We have nearly completed our first natural building model school, have been training farmers in almond tree grafting and the planting of macadamia shade trees for...
We thought you would enjoy this video of Deana talking with one of our coffee farmers a few months ago about the impact that coffee has on his life and his future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbd5d5-tTSg Coffee and other organic cash crops hold the key to helping...
Our donors are an amazing community of people who have felt a personal connection to the destruction caused by Nepal’s 7.8 earthquake last year, and also to the magic of Nepal’s culture and the warmth of its people. Last April, you joined us in our...
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