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The world is fighting against the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. The virus has brought in an exceptional impact in our lives. The recent scenario of COVID-19 shows that its spread is becoming extensive in Nepal. Caritas Nepal (CN) is working with its local partners to ensure that the most vulnerable continue to have the food and…

In the past few weeks, Caritas Nepal has successfully reached 4743 HHs of 18 districts with food, hygiene materials and awareness support. COVID-19 has terrorized the whole world leading to 275 thousand deaths and infecting almost 4 million from 215 countries all around world. At first compared to other countries, Nepal had no cases in the…

Vulnerability of spreading corona virus is increasing in Nepal, as 11 new cases were confirmed on 21st April. Presently, total number of Corona virus positive cases are 42, 107 people are in isolation and more than 7067 are in quarantine. Country is locked down for almost a month and increased Covid-19 cases is indicating that…

Caritas Nepal’s oldest and longest running program Bhutanese Refugees Education Program (BREP) is almost completed and its in last phase as 80 percent refugees are resettled already. The world is going through this unpleasant incident, leaving almost 139,378 deaths, 2,074,529 confirmed cases as of 17th April reported to WHO. In context of Nepal as of…

After three months of mobile phone repair training, Dukhiram Mahara Chamaar has now opened his own shop in the village of Bharwalyia in the Bara district. On March 31, 2019, the Bara district was struck by a devastating tornado that left many people injured and many others homeless. For this reason, Caritas has been implementing…

Seven staff from Caritas Nepal participated in the peer exchange and learning visit to Caritas Indonesia from 23rd to 29th February 2020 under European Asian Partnership for Building Capacities in Humanitarian Action (PEACH) II project. This is a consortium program of Caritas Austria, Caritas Czech Republic, Caritas Romania, Caritas Nepal, Caritas India, Caritas Pakistan Caritas…

Intending to introduce and orient on the basic principles and core humanitarian standard through the use of new sphere handbook during emergency response we conducted 4 days Training on sphere standards and its implementation in humanitarian action from 11-14 September, 2019. The training has been conducted under the programme entitled “European Asian Partnership for Building…

Conducted our 30th Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 3rd October 2019 in Caritas Nepal’s central office, Dhobighat, Lalitpur. Pleased to have our Executive Committee and General Body Members at our office. We would like to welcome our newly elected Executive Committee. At the same time, we would like to appreciate our outgoing committee who always…

Marking the 30 years of devoted social service to the nation, Caritas Nepal celebrated its anniversary on 28 October 2019 at Lalitpur. The event was followed by the closing ceremony of “Nepal Earthquake Recovery Program (NERP)”, one of the significant programs of Caritas Nepal.  “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and…

Till now, 305 households are provided with food and non-food item in order to sustain during this emergency.