Friends of Nepal

Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold will be holding a public “listen
session” in our county on Friday April 1st. The meeting is open to the
public and a good opportunity for a large group of us to meet the
Senator and share our concerns and views with him. The meeting is not
in Madison, but in a smaller town near [...]

A core group on RPCVs has been active as a subcommittee of Friends of Nepal for the past year. The “Peace Initiative” Comittee had some significant accomplishments in the first several months then ran into a wall and the members remained only loosely affiliated over the past 3-5 months. The group is currently re-organzing to [...]

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP – NEW REPORTS
Nepal: Dealing with a Human Rights Crisis
The International Crises Group has some very analytical and objective reports on the situation in Nepal. If you want a comprehensive analysis checkout this resource.

Having had over 6 years working in development in Nepal with PC and UNDP there are two areas where I think FON could have the most impact, 1) The national (decentralized) Community Forestry development program of the Forestry Dept which is having considerable success throughout the hills with the support of official aid doners and [...]

Thanks to the generosity of over 100 RPCVs we raised over $8,000 in November and December 2004 for the PCN Nepali Staff. They have formed a committee and recently had a meeting with 45 attendees to discuss how to use the fund. They have decided to form an organization and start an endowment in Nepal. [...]

There are quite a few initiatives underway by Nepal RPCVs and others who care about Nepal. There has been discussion and some random mobilization in terms of lobbying congress to support democracy in Nepal, restricting military aid, organizing teach-ins and seminars, etc. In the coming months we will have several contributors adding posts to inform [...]