Friends of Nepal

In a move that is likely to make India angry, the US is moving quickly to restore military supplies to the Himalayan kingdom, a news report said on Wednesday.
The Daily News and Analysis (www.dnaindia.com)– an Indian news portal – quoted unnamed government sources of India as saying that the US was set on restoring military [...]

by Ambika JoshiÂÂ
U.S. Ambassador to Nepal, His Excellency James F. Moriarty, in a program organized jointly by the US Information Center and the Ganeshman Singh Foundation said that the Maoists cannot be trusted. Therefore, the king and the political parties should reconcile and work together, he further emphasized. This is not the first time he [...]

Designed as a complement to PC”s Crisis Corps,  PC Encore!, a non-profit group,has been formed to match RPCV talents with short-term overseas assignments.  Encouraged by the Natl. Peace Corps Assoc., the Board consists of RPCVs and the Advisory Council has 3 former PC Directors.  The Director is Maura Fulton. One thousand RPCVs have already signed up.ÂÂ
http://www.peacecorpsencore.org

Celebrate the Nepali New Year 2063, Saturday, April 8, 2006, 7 PM, at Dhaka Club & Restaurant–59-13, 37th Ave., Woodside (Queens), NY, courtesy of the America-Nepal Friendship Society.  Featured will be Nepali music and dances, a DJ, raffles, and much more.
Admission is $35 per person (children 5 and younger free).  Price includes snacks and dinner. [...]

Derek Volkart was an experienced environmentalist in Ashland, Oregon who applied for the Peace Corps and was accepted to work as an environmetalist in Morocco. Judging from Google, he was also a well-known activist on environmental issues. About ten days before he was to leave for staging and Morocco, he was interviewed by a local [...]

I am an RPCV from China ‘02-’03 and currently a second-year law student at Georgetown.  This semester, I am in an asylum clinic class, and my clients are from Nepal.  My clinic partner and I are trying to locate potential “expert” witnesses who might be able to talk about the conditions in Nepal during the [...]

The Council for International Exchange of Scholars announces Fulbright Scholar Program awards in countries of North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia during the 2007-08 academic year, open to college and university faculty and advanced professionals. The program seeks qualified candidates to contribute to educational development in countries worldwide. We value the experience and [...]

EcoSystems has designed an innovative, safe bridge suitable for Nepal, where it has already placed several. They need partners to help fund more of them.
Safe There have been more than 1,600,000 safe trips in six years over Nepal’s rivers with EcoSystems’ thirty locally developed WireBridges (“TarPul”) with no reported injuries. These rugged, easy-to-use bridge-carriages provide [...]

Over the past year the Himalayan Healers project has moved forward from an idea that gave us goose-bumps one beautiful day in Ojai last year, to a steadily manifesting reality. We have launched our first phase and Heart of our operations: Training members of the Untouchable castes in massage therapy. Of our 3 goals, we [...]