#StoriesOfChange

The community people in ward 3 engage in their daily schedule from early morning. Early with the sunrise, Caritas Nepal project team also prepare themselves and reach to Bhujel Gau, Ward 3 of Gaindakot Municipality and knock on Arisa Praja’s door. Arisa Praja with her son comes out and smiles and greets to the team….

Jaya Tharu(26), a hardworking member of the Pariwartansil Enterprise Farmer Group in Rajapur-06, Mahuwa, exemplifies resilience and dedication in agricultural quests. With a 0.27 hectare of land, expanse dedicated to banana cultivation, Jaya embarked on a journey encouraged by knowledge gathered from training sessions on commercial banana production, business planning, and post-harvest handling. Empowered by…

Parbati Sinjali Magar, a 7-year-old girl, resides in Bhujel Gau, a village within Gaindakot municipality. Despite her parents’ involvement in agriculture and seasonal labor, Parbati’s education remains a priority. She attends Juna Purba Basic School, which is approximately 1 kilometer away from her village. Accompanied by her older sister, who is in the first grade…

Chalmaya Thapa, a 40-year-old woman residing in Ekletar, Gaindakot municipality-3, Nawalpur is suffering from a chronic cervical disease. For a living, she and her husband rely on agriculture, which is only sufficient to sustain them for 3 months. Chalmaya’s poor health condition restricts her ability to engage fully in agricultural activities with her husband. LOAN…

Nimkala Chauhan is living in Kapilvastu Municipality Ward No. 12, Vithuva. She is from marginalized community in terms of economic condition. She has 2 sons, 1 daughter, 2 mother/father-in-law, her husband and herself altogether 7 people are living in her family. In order to fulfill their basic needs, she had taken 5 kattha (0.169 hectare)…

I realized farming can be this much productive and best income generating source after I acquire IPM practice before 5 year after Caritas technicians provided us training.”, shared Janaki Rana Majha, a resident of Tansen, Palpa, an active farmer from the Majha Agriculture Learning Centre. It  feels great that I am now able to sustain…

Botanical pesticides are environmentally friendly and is a very good alternative to the chemical pesticides. Generally, farmers use botanical pesticides as repellent to insects and pest in the crop field which reduces the input cost of the farmers. Fermented botanical pesticides, commonly known as alcoholic botanical pesticide is one of the alternative to conventional botanical…

Suku Maya Gurung, a 36 year old mother, of two children (one son and a daughter) from Nawalpur was struggling to sustain her living after her husband passed away 6 years ago. She is dependent on subsistence agricultural farming for living which is barely sufficient to feed themselves for not more than 3 months. Besides,…

Ms. Sajima Khatun, a mother of two kids with husband and mother in-law in the family is staying at Kodauha village of ward no.4 of Kapilvastu. Relying of daily wage labor by her husband was barely helping the family to manage household expenses. Grew up in Muslim community, she was not allowed to work outside….

Farmers in Surkhet used to do mushroom cultivation in a very small scale few years back.  They have never thought this as a good alternative of food and nutrition security as well as income generating source. Though the farmers had some knowledge about household mushroom cultivation they have never incorporated this as an important component…