Joanna Lumley, Gurkhas and water
Just in case you’ve missed it - Joanna Lumley is in Nepal this week! She’s been called a “Goddess of Nepal”, and has arrived for the first time to meet Gurkhas and their families, for whom she has campaigned so …
Building bridges: the lifelines of rural Nepal
I was born and brought up in Bristol, South West of the UK. In Bristol there is a famous bridge, the Clifton Suspension Bridge, which I learned at school was one of the first suspension bridges of its type in …
Waiting for the rains
We Brits are famous for always talking about the weather, but people here in Nepal are doing that a lot too at the moment. But the different nationalities come at it from a rather different angle. In the UK we …
Of women and children
Last week I took my first trip outside Kathmandu and flew to Nepalgunj. Nepalgunj is in the Terai. This is a very different part of the country - and is a world away from the popular image people have of Nepal. …
Health in the Himalayas
This week I’ve been thinking about health a lot. I have two small children who are both adapting well to life in Nepal. But Nepal has different germs to Bangladesh, where we lived previously, and added to that, it is …
Next steps for Nepal?
I arrived in Nepal last week and the day I arrived the Prime Minister resigned! My week since has been trying to make sense of a multitude of contradictions and intensely complex politics. I’ve arrived to head up DFID’s development …
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