Friends of Nepal

Ten Friends Project is a charitable non-profit formed by two teachers from Central Oregon. Founders Mark LaMont and Rand Runco love their community and are dedicated to their work with children. Both are teachers in Sisters, Oregon. During their summer breaks, Mark and Rand travel to Nepal, often taking volunteers, students, or friends. Their first [...]

As strikes and demonstrations across Nepal signal the approaching end of the king’s direct rule, international actors must prepare for a transition and help start a peace process. There is a need for a Contact Group – including India, the U.S., and the UK, working with the UN – and a complementary Peace Support Group [...]

PEACE CORPS stories and essays wanted for the travel anthology “Americans
Do Their Business Abroad: The Peace Corps Latrine Reader,” edited by Steve
McNutt and Jake Fawson. Think: humorous yet harrowing tales of
self-deprecation and disaster. Above all, think funny. Proceeds to
charity. Deadline: September 15, 2006. Complete guidelines at:
http://peacecorpsreader.blogspot.com/. E-mail submissions to:
stevemcnutt@earthlink.net or jfawson@gmail.com

Within the past week there has been a great effort to free Madhu and the other professionals arrested alongside him. We will be posting daily updates on the situation in this space.
To the extent possible, we want to coordinate our efforts. Here is a summary of actions to date:
1) Shivaji is following up with human [...]

From Today’s Nepali Times
 The 25 civil society activists, doctors and journalists who defied the curfew on 8 April at the Teaching Hospital and jump-started the current agitation and were arrested have been shifted to a detention centre in Duwakot. The group includes prominent human rights activists Padma Ratna Tuladhar, Kapil Shrestha and Malla K Sundar, [...]

The government of the United States has said King Gyanendra’s decision fourteen months ago to impose direct palace rule in Nepal has failed in every regard.
In a statement issued on Monday, spokesman of the US Department of State, Seam Mc Cormack, said, “The demonstrations, deaths, arrests, and Maoist attacks in the past few days have [...]