BHARDEV, Nepal, Aug 25 (Reuters) - In a village a little over an hour's drive from Nepal's capital of Kathmandu, six women wearing yellow rubber gloves and surgical masks work in a shed, gently ...

On the morning of Feb. 6, the road leading to the Bardiya District Administration Office in western Nepal was filled with people moving as one. Dust rose from their footsteps. Voices layered over each ...

EAST LONGMEADOW — Next month, Cheri Brady will wrap cash in a silky scarf — a kata — and present it to a village leader in Nepal. The moment will cap a long effort to help Tibetans restore a ...

Although farmers traditionally practiced agroforestry in Nepal, they gave it up with the advent of the green revolution. A women’s group in Kavre district decided to return to agroforestry four years ...

Growing up in a traditional Hindu family in an eastern Nepal village, Durga Shrestha never thought that one day she would become a Catholic nun and work for the welfare of her country’s poor. The ...

In the bowl-shaped Birendranagar Valley surrounded by hills in Nepal, Nirmala Bastola is busy issuing tickets to visitors arriving at Bulbule Lake. "Quite a busy day today," said Bastola, the ...

One morning last winter in a village in Baitadi, a district in far-west Nepal, Kabita Bhandari sat down with a group of women to dispel local rumors about long-term contraceptives. Bhandari is 22 ...