LUKLA, Nepal — Last weekend, a group of Sherpas gathered outside Buddha Lodge in this speck of a town near Mount Everest, stuffing cloth sacks filled with thousands of pounds of garbage into a turboprop plane. To read further, click on the link below: https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/world/how-do-you-remove-200000-pounds-of-trash-from-everest-recruit-yaks/ar-BBKzSu9?li=BBr8Mkh
Public Health
Mount Everest Climbers Enlisted for Canvas Bag Clean-up Mission
Recreational climbers and Sherpas help to remove hundreds of kilograms of litter after a series of deadly quakes on the world’s highest peak. To read further, click on the link below: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/29/climbers-prepare-clean-up-mission-mount-everest-nepal-waste
Current Nepal PCV looking for Support for Mental Health Awareness Project
Mental health is a significant and pervasive issue in Nepal that has only begun to be addressed by organizations in the major cities of Kathmandu and Pokhara. Although suicide is the number one cause of death for Nepali women ages 15-49, mental health issues and causal factors are not discussed
Solar water pumps up incomes for Nepal’s quake-hit farmers
In the village of Shikharpur in Nepal’s remote Himalayan foothills, the faint sound of water can be heard trickling through a large metal pump. Standing in golden mustard fields, a huge solar panel powers the pump that provides some 40,000 liters of water daily to families still recovering from Nepal’s
Nepal Invests in New Irrigation Technologies
Water sources are drying up in parts of the Himalayas and people are forced to look elsewhere for places to live and work. But new technology in irrigation might help people stay in their homes. To read further, please click on the link below: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/nepal-invests-irrigation-technologies-171117113156245.html
How HIV Found its Way to a Remote Corner of the Himalayas
Adarsh and Numa are the only two HIV-positive kids at their school, and everyone knows it. In this mud-and-brick village, so high up Nepal’s far-western hills that it takes two days by 4×4 to reach the nearest town, no secrets stay secret for long. To read further, please click on