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<title><![CDATA[Energy changes the face of Dagtundanda ]]></title>
<link>http://www.undp.org.np/success-stories/energy-changes-the-face-of-dagtundanda-187.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 23:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The small village of Kharbang in Dagatundada, Baglung (western Nepal) has a government-run Shree Tribhuvan secondary school. Though a lot of people prefer sending their children to private schools as long as they can afford, Kharbang witnesses a different scenario. The Tribhuvan school’s management committee says, “students have now started to prefer this school over private schools. Even those students who had already enrolled in one of the private schools have joined this public school now.” The charm behind joining this school is the benefit that the school can now offer to the students after electricity has come to the village with the support of UNDP micro-hydro project...

 

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<title><![CDATA[Tulsi’s mushroom business]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Thanks to her steadily rising profit, she has built a home for herself now. In addition, she has constructed a shed for growing mushroom at a cost of 2 million rupees (US$ 25,477). Her total investment in the enterprise is 15,000 rupees (less than US$ 200). 
Through MEDEP’s support, she also been receiving the opportunity to participate in local, regional and national level agricultural expos and trade fairs.The benefits of mushroom farming are manifold. She has become a known trainer and has trained more than 1000 people.

 

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<title><![CDATA[“My daughters will go to school…..”]]></title>
<link>http://www.undp.org.np/success-stories/my-daughters-will-go-to-school..-186.html</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Many daughters in the villages of Nepal are neglected and denied their fundamental rights, because they are daughters, not sons. It is not like that with Masina anymore ! Masina now dreams of educating her daughters to make them independent. Unfortunately two of her daughters are now too old to attend regular schooling. But her three daughters – Jaymul, Apsana and Samsa, go to school. “Another two will go to school when they are of school-going age”, says Masina. Sadly, four of her eleven daughters are no more.

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<title><![CDATA[“Our hands will not carry guns anymore…...”]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Forty  Maoist ex-combatants cheered with joy as they received certificates for successfully completing Community Medical Assistant  and Lab Assistant courses from Rapti Technical School.
“Our hands that used to carry guns and other weapons now will serve the needy people for medical aids,” said  Premabati Gopali as they are gracefully entering into civilian lives.
The health course was a rehabilitation option offered by the UN Interagency Rehabilitation Programme (UNIRP)to the  Verified Minors and Late Recruits (VMLRs)who were discharged from the cantonment in early 2010.

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<title><![CDATA[Mineral Water Plant for PLHIV ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[People Living with HIV (PLHIV) suffer serious health problems as HIV progresses to AIDS alongside widespread stigma and the resulting discrimination. This often seriously undermines the socioeconomic condition of PLHIV and their families as they struggle to cope with the disease and stigma. Today thousands of HIV affected people are receiving drinking water without any hastle. Earlier people did not allow them to use the same source of water such as taps or wells.
Nava Kiran Plus (NKP) is one of the NGOs led by People Living with HIV in Nepal and that has implemented the comprehensive package for PLHIV through the Community Care Center (CCC) in seven districts of Nepal. UNDP Nepal, with DFID grant has supported NKP for this project since 1 February 2006.
 

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<title><![CDATA[Vaglu Majhi's hard earned jacket]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Vaglu Majhi is wearing a jacket for the first time in his life. He belongs to a Mushahar community in Ishworpur village, Sarlahi district, terai (low lands) area of Nepal. Mushahar community has always lived in abject poverty due to lack of education, skills and income generating opportunities. Vaglu's purchase of jacket was the result of NRs 21000 profit he made from selling his vegetables in 10 months time.

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<title><![CDATA[Life saved !]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Bhim recalls, while growing up in the Kathmandu Valley, he and his friends started using marijuana. It developed from simple curiosity to pain killers, then alcohol, smoking brown sugar (opium) and finally to injecting heroine. “My whole life became only about drugs,” he said. ”I worked in a restaurant and used all my money for drugs. I was involved with criminals. I got some money from my family, borrowed from friends, and sold drugs. I went to the Indian border to buy drugs. ... I lost all of friends, and I know that many have since died. But we knew nothing about the dangers nor ever thought about infection. We shared needles and many unsafe practices. None of us knew about HIV.”

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<title><![CDATA[  Increased access to HIV services in Nepal]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The DFID and GFATM programmes have made a large contribution to reducing the spread of HIV and AIDS, caring for infected people and helping gear up the national response to HIV in line with the National HIV/AIDS Action Plan (2008-2011) and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, 2006-2011.

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<title><![CDATA[Dhaka enterprise brings fortunes for Subhadra……...]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A decade long struggle has finally brought good days for Subhadra Rajbhandari, an entrepreneur residing in Myanglung, Tehrathum district in east Nepal.She owns a shop which has products worth Rs. 400,000 (US$ 5,479) made out of dhaka fabric such as caps, scarves, saris, shawls, neckties, handkerchiefs, blouses, shirts etc. She also has colourful threads in different sizes used for weaving dhaka materials. 

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<title><![CDATA[Little smiles that tell the story !]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For generations, illiteracy and poverty combined with traditional social customs have deprived the women from any opportunities to progress further. As a traditional practice, not only were the women confined to the four walls of their houses but they also lacked skills or financial resources to start any income generating activities. With the intervention of LRP, a host of new opportunities for women have come up for starting new enterprises.

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