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Most Significant Changes Stories
Most Significant Changes Stories tell about the changes that have happened in the lives of the beneficiaries of the MS Nepal programme - both the successful stories and the unsuccessful stories.
| :: | Less two-feeted donkeys in Hariharpur |
| 09 August 2007 | |
| The cultural development has moved at warp-speed in Hariharpur. However, the economical development is not what the villagers had hoped for when they began working with Jana Adarsha Social Centre. | |
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| :: | Politicians out from illegal detention |
| 09 August 2007 | |
| “The best thing was that HURON always knew in which prison we were located. That meant we couldn’t disappear. That made a huge difference to us,” the politicians say after their release. | |
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| :: | Four groups. Same trainings |
| 25 June 2007 | |
| 17 groups under GSSK have during the past four years received the same trainings. Ekchhin visited four groups to look at what the beneficiaries got out of all the training they have received and what there were the most significant changes in their communities. | |
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| :: | Education through radio |
| 20 June 2007 | |
| Community Radio Madan Pokhara has launched an initiative to help students pass the SLC exam. Through the radio, students receive extra classes in math, science and English. | |
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| :: | A women’s group changed her life |
| 20 June 2007 | |
| Shrijana Thapa was a quiet, gentle and obedient girl. Life lay in front of her with children and housework. Today she is the programme coordinator at DCRDC in Baglung. | |
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| :: | Brahmins burry dead buffaloes |
| 20 June 2007 | |
| The shoemaker caste used to collect the dead bodies of buffaloes, eat the meat and use the skin for shoemaking. Today traditions have changed in Madan Pokhara VDC through radio programme from Community Radio Madan Pokhara. | |
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| :: | From kitchen to community |
| 21 March 2007 | |
| The women could not walk freely in the community and had to flee to go to trainings. Today the doors to freedom have been opened through the women’s group under MS partner Women’s Welfare Association. | |
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| :: | Salary according to the law |
| 21 March 2007 | |
| The Independent Labour Right Forum fights for salary according to the law and an eight hours work day. Today working conditions are changing in the Kabilvastu district | |
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| :: | Clean water and toilets through women’s group |
| 21 March 2007 | |
| Unity creates strength and the possibility to make changes. That is the experience for the women in Deurali after formation of a women’s group. | |
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| :: | Water for school children |
| 21 March 2007 | |
| A radio report from MS partner Radio Lumbini gave the children at Shree Maya Devi Primary School in Kabilvastu district water to drink at school. A businessman heard about the problem. | |
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| :: | The landless fight for land |
| 15 March 2007 | |
| In 2005 the government established the Solution Committee to help sort out the problems for the landless. For 14 landless in Kabilvastu district there was a change with the help from MS partner KSSC. 156 are still waiting for their land. | |
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| :: | Less rice with fertilizer |
| 15 March 2007 | |
| The farmers in Sipura thought that they had struck gold when they began using fertilizer. Today they harvest less rice that ever before but they don’t dare stop using the fertilizer despite a lot of advices from MS partner KSSC. | |
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| :: | No more burning red eyes |
| 15 March 2007 | |
| The air in a kitchen is thick with smoke when the wood is burning in a traditional cooking stove. This causes many deceases among women. A new improved cooking stove leads the smoke away. | |
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| :: | A bit of money can change a life |
| 15 March 2007 | |
| A small helping hand can make the world of difference when you have nothing and get the opportunity to do it right. A micro finance loan made the difference for Hira B.K. and her family | |
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| :: | Commercial farmer |
| 15 March 2007 | |
| One piece of land does not mean just one vegetable. The farmers in Baglung, Parbat and Myagdi districts are learning integrated and commercial farming. The living standards have changed. | |
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| :: | Change for Dalits |
| 26 July 2006 | |
| Through training from MS partner Nepal Press Institute Rupa Gahatraj can now work for change through community radio Bheri Awaz in Nepalgunj | |
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| :: | I don't listen anymore |
| 26 July 2006 | |
| Sita Nepal has gotten the authority and confidence to rebuke the senior people in her family after reproductive health training from WWA. They don’t know the truth, she says. | |
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| :: | Fight for trust |
| 26 July 2006 | |
| Bibek Khadka is disabled. Through journalism he has gotten the tool to change the way society looks a disabled people | |
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| :: | A new mattress for my daughter |
| 26 July 2006 | |
| Maya Nepal does not want other women to suffer the humiliation she had to go through. Today she spreads the knowledge she has gained from reproductive health training and tells her story about living under the rule of old beliefs. | |
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| :: | From cold floor to warm bed |
| 26 July 2006 | |
| Dharma Panthi had to sleep on the floor when she had her period. After reproduction training from Women's Welfare Association with her husband and mother in law she can sleep beside her husband. | |
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| :: | The Freed Politicians |
| 27 April 2006 | |
| Nepali politicians escape illegal detention thanks to diligent work by human rights organisation HURON. | |
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